One of the most influential venture-capital firms has turned the usual rules of start-up investing on its head, telling entrepreneurs it prefers situations where the founders have controlling stakes.
Creative strategies to make a résumé stand out include using infographics and videos, which highlight job seekers' accomplishments and communication and technical skills.
Last year, Google offered more classes to more employees than it ever has before, with about a third of its 33,100-strong workforce going through GoogleEDU. But it also uses analytics to measure the effectiveness of courses.
Colleges, start-ups and nonprofits are rushing to tap a mix of Web services and software to open online educational ventures. One Silicon Valley start-up is teaming with UCLA to reach baby boomers looking to upgrade their skills.
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U.S. business schools are trying to master a new corner of the market: specialized master's degrees.
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A new rule could force companies to disclose the gap between what they pay their CEO and their median pay for employees.
Welcome to the bossless company, where the hierarchy is flat, pay is often determined by peers, and the workday is directed by employees themselves.
Managers are fighting an epidemic of grammar gaffes in the workplace, where looseness with language can create bad impressions with clients, ruin marketing materials and cause communications errors.
In an effort to put the brakes on skyrocketing health-insurance costs, companies are thinking up ways to get people moving right in the workplace.
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Too much to do and not enough time to do it? Here's how some executives tame their time-management demons.
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To reach the top, executives must learn how to exude "presence." Some tips: Don't nod your head and do clean up your look. For one vice president, an image makeover helped her gain the managerial gravitas that she needed.
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Activist investor Bill Ackman has built a stake in Procter & Gamble and may press for changes in the way the consumer-products giant is run.
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Columnist Sue Shellenbarger answers a reader's question about resources for grammar and writing.
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USA Today named David Callaway, who had been the top editor at MarketWatch since 2000, as its new editor. At the paper, he rejoins Larry Kramer, founder of MarketWatch, who in May was named publisher of USA Today.
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It's not just ladies in sensible shoes and woolen cardigans who work at the New York Public Library. Office style ranges from bookish to whimsical at the private, non-profit organization.
It's a fashionable mix of brands—from Rachel Roy to Nine West—that influences office style at the Manhattan headquarters of the Jones Group.
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