Guess How Much Money You're Blowing Each Year By Not Packing Lunch
Packing your lunch might be the simplest way to save a ton of cash, a new survey shows. On average, buying lunch every day costs workers nearly $2,000 per year, according to the January 2012...
View ArticleTake A Look At These 10 Ridiculous Knockoff Brands
This post originally appeared at buzzfeed. In every dollar store and Chinatown marketplace these little gems can be found. If nothing else, their efforts are commendable.1. Michael Alone View the...
View ArticleIt Only Took 15 Minutes For StubHub To Hand-Deliver Replacement Tickets To A...
This series on Customer Relationship Management is brought to you by Microsoft CRM Solutions At yesterday's 49ers game, tons of fans were stuck outside of the stadium because their tickets wouldn't...
View ArticleINSTANT MBA: Entrepreneurs Are Different Than Other Smart People
Today's advice comes from Kleiner Perkins' Bing Gordon's interview with Canadian Business: "I’ve found that entrepreneurs, unlike smart people, get focused on working with whatever they have at hand...
View ArticleComputer Science Majors Nabbed The Biggest Salary Increase In 2011
Things are looking up for college graduates. The average salary for 2011 grads was $41,701, a 2.3% increase from 2010 (via Bryce Christiansen). According to the most recent Nace survey — which...
View ArticleTeach For America Worker: 'This Is The Toughest Job I've Ever Had'
Teach For America recently ranked No. 70 on Fortune's annual 100 Best Companies to Work For list. The program, which enlists recent college grads to teach in low-income neighborhoods across the U.S.,...
View ArticleBusiness Insider Is Looking For A Junior Sales Planner
Business Insider is hiring a junior sales planner. The planner will be joining a fast-paced, creative team. He/she will develop proposals for national brands like Mercedes, Citi, Microsoft, Marriott,...
View ArticleMacy's Sues Martha Stewart Living To Block Deal With JC Penney's
NEW YORK (AP) — Macy's Inc. has sued Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia Inc. in a bid to block a licensing deal between the housewares company and J.C. Penney Co. The lawsuit was filed Monday in New York...
View ArticleMore Americans Than Ever Are Filing Job Discrimination Claims
WASHINGTON (AP) — Job discrimination complaints in the United States rose to an all-time high last year, led by an increase in bias charges based on religion and national origin. The Equal Employment...
View ArticleMcDonald's Twitter Campaign Goes Horribly Wrong #McDStories (MCD)
A twitter campaign by McDonald's backfired when people started sharing the wrong kind of #McDStories (via @bored2tears). McDonald's kicked things off on Thursday with the hashtag #MeetTheFarmers, in a...
View ArticleTwo Simple Ways To Understand Customers Better Than They Know Themselves
Usually the question comes right after I tell an audience that I put former Procter & Gamble CEO A.G. Lafley on my "Innovation Mount Rushmore" as a reminder of the importance of investing time and...
View ArticleWhat I Learned Managing Thousands Of Nerds In Russia, China And Germany
In 1998, I sold part of my company (which I had founded in 1986, when I was 13) to the Finnish IT services firm Tieto. Two years later we made it a full merger, and I joined the Tieto management team....
View ArticleThe Trickiest Part Of Getting Hired To Be A Google Engineer (GOOG)
If you want to get hired at Google, you better get used to writing code to solve a problem on a giant white board. It's a decidedly low-tech way of writing computer code, but it shows your Google...
View ArticleFast-Growing Startup 99designs Could Generate More Revenue This Year Than In...
99designs, a four-year-old startup that uses its community to create graphics and logos, has grown a lot in the past year. It has been profitable since 2008 but now revenue has kicked up a notch....
View ArticleInfosys' CEO: What My 17-Year-Old Son Taught Me About Business
The unprecedented sequence of events that started in 2008 and led to the global economic turmoil has taken the business world and its leaders by storm. Business leaders have since been devoting a...
View ArticleNeeded: One Stellar Sales Planner
Business Insider is hiring a sales planner. The sales planner will be joining a fast-growing team. He/she will help put together killer proposals for brands like Mercedes, Jaguar, Continental...
View ArticleHow To Make A Big Decision When There's No Clear Answer
Ever find your team debating a decision in which there are two very different yet justifiable solutions to a given problem? We all have. Very often these are the most contentious and most complicated...
View ArticleMost Big Companies Have A Tracking System That Scans Your Resume For Keywords
If you blindly apply for a job online, there's a good chance no one is going to look at your resume, at least during the first round. Most big companies sort resumes using a tracking system that scans...
View ArticleOnce Again The Government Will Tax All Unemployment Benefits
Some jobless Americans may get a nasty surprise when they go to file their taxes this year. Unemployed insurance benefits from 2011 will remain taxable, according to the Associated Press. Though...
View ArticleINSTANT MBA: 'If It Ain’t Broke, Make Sure You Break It'
Today's advice comes from Max-Wellness founder and CEO Michael Feuer in his column for Smart Business. "Research and development is not just for tech companies or manufacturers but also for companies...
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