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At Least 1 In 5 Companies Is Cooking The Books
LONDON, May 7 (Reuters) - Hard-pressed company bosses across much of the world are under so much pressure to deliver on growth that many have resorted to cooking the books, Ernst & Young says in...
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Big Data Firm Claims To Know The Secrets To A Successful Hollywood Script
The rise of big data is taking hold in Hollywood.Studios are becoming more and more reliant on consultants to make decisions at every point of production.A major advocate of this trend is former...
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8 Best-Paying Summer Jobs
Getting a summer job is a rite of passage for many young people. In addition to earning wages to help pay for tuition or make car payments, it's where many first-time employees learn the fundamentals...
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Melinda Gates Will Save Thousands Of Lives With Birth Control
Melinda Gates has been married to billionaire Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft, since 1994.But Melinda is no trophy wife.She's a brilliant, strong-minded businesswoman and philanthropist who's...
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How Companies Play On Your Psychology To Tempt You Into Using Their Products
How do products tempt us? What makes them so alluring? It is easy to assume we crave delicious food or impulsively check email because we find pleasure in the activity. But pleasure is just half the...
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REPORT: Wal-Mart Is Quietly Interviewing For A New CEO
Wal-Mart is said to be choosing between two internal candidates to succeed CEO Mike Duke. Duke's departure isn't imminent, but could be announced in a few months, according to Renee Dudley at Bloomberg...
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Ori Allon Has Hired 63 Ex-Googlers, Twitter Employees, And Harvard MBAs To...
One week after Google met Ori Allon in a tiny, server-crammed office in Sydney, the young developer had a first-class ticket to Mountain View.Allon, then 26, had created and patented a search algorithm...
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It's Official: 4 Young Founders Just Bought A $40 Million Mountain To Party On
For the past year, it's been known that four entrepreneurs, Elliot Bisnow, Brett Leve, Jeff Rosenthal and Jeremy Schwartz, have been trying to buy a mountain in Eden, Utah. There, they want to host...
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Memo Shows The CIA Did Play A Role In Changing 'Zero Dark Thirty'
"Zero Dark Thirty" screenwriter Mark Boal acquiesced to CIA requests to change material in the film that would have reflected poorly on the agency, according to a newly declassified memo.The drama's...
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6 Simple Ways To Make People Remember You
Cards are nice. Gifts are nice. All the "standards" are nice—and all, at least in part, are somewhat expected.So if you really want to make someone's day, do the unexpected. It's not hard.All it takes...
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There's A Big Difference Between 'H.R.' And 'High Performance' Happiness At Work
Whether it's perks like free food and awesome campuses, or data-based efforts to figure out what makes employees tick, there's an increasing focus on making employees happier at work, hoping that it...
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The Shorter Your First Name, The Bigger Your Salary
Shorten it to Bill, Bob, Marc or a Cindy, if you want to work in the executive suite.That’s the message from a new study by TheLadders, an online job matching site, which says every extra letter in a...
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WARREN BUFFETT TO WOMEN: Stop Holding Yourself Back
Warren Buffett is a big fan of Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg's book, "Lean In."It inspired his recent column in Fortune, where he wrote, "we've seen what can be accomplished when we use 50% of our human...
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How McDonald's Can Finally Fix Its Abysmal Customer Service
Let’s congratulate McDonald’s. If rehab requires admitting you have a problem, then the company’s first step was a webinar with franchisees, noting that 20 percent of customer complaints are due to...
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What Your Mother Really Wants For Mother's Day: A Job
In honor of Mother’s Day, once again, Salary.com, publishes the Mom’s Salary Calculator, which estimates the number of hours a week an average Stay at Home mom works (for her family) and what she is...
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Warren Buffett Shared Some Great Career Advice For Millennials
Warren Buffett served as a mentor to young professionals yesterday during an "Office Hours" session with Levo League, a networking and career advice site. During the live stream video chat, the...
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How To Get The Most Out Of Your LinkedIn Network
Ten years ago, entrepreneur Reid Hoffman had a vision for a website that could help create and foster important business connections among professionals.He co-founded a site called LinkedIn with the...
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What Your Boss Is Thinking When You Ask For A Raise
You've researched the going rate for your work, documented your accomplishments from the last year and put together a case for a salary increase, and now you're sitting across from your boss, having...
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Enter To Win A Kindle Fire From Business Insider
We're giving you a chance to win a Kindle Fire HD. Become a newsletter subscriber now to enter. If you're the lucky winner you will have a host of features at your fingertips. Entry deadline is May...
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It's Becoming Increasingly Difficult To Fake A Great Corporate Culture
Corporate culture is becoming increasingly important in the war for talent and retention at companies of all types around the world. Corporate culture is the personality of a company and it can’t be...
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