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Starting Your Own Hedge Fund? Here's The Question Everyone's Going To Ask You
It's getting tougher and tougher to launch a hedge fund these days. A few years ago you could start up shop with $25 to $50 million. Now, from what we're hearing, it's more like $100 million. That...
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BAILOUTS, BRIBES AND INSIDER TRADING: Here's What The World's Leading...
Government bailouts. Rogue traders. Bought-off politicians. These are not only the headlines that have dominated since the Great Recession. They were also major developments in the history of what...
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Olympus Executive Found Hanged In Apparent Suicide
NEW DELHI (AP) — Police say an executive at an Indian subsidiary of scandal-plagued Olympus Corp. has apparently committed suicide. Police officer Amarjit Kataria says Tsutomi Omori's body was found...
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Show And Tell: Carnegie Mellon Brought In An Insider Trader To Scare The...
Imagine you're an excited and optimistic Business School student, trying to figure out how you're going to spend the rest of your life. Then one day you walk into class, and BOOM! You're sitting...
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How Indeed, The World's Largest Job Search Site, Exploded To 60 Million Uniques
New York-based Indeed, a pay-per-click job listing and search site, is one of the largest career sites on the web. Founded in 2004, Indeed has 360 employees. It boasts 60 million monthly unique...
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People Who Buy And Return Stuff Cost Retailers $16 Billion A Year
The longest line on a busy Saturday afternoon in a celebrated New York department store is at the returns desk: bad news in these troubling times when every dime counts. First in line is 18-year old...
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Instagram Founder: How To Make Mobile Apps That People LOVE
The iPhone app Instagram grew from 1 million to 15 million downloads in 2011, thanks to the way it makes your (sometimes crumby) photos look artsy and special. But that's not the only growth driver....
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Mom & Dad's Income Really Is The Best Predictor Of Junior's SAT Score
A family's income is a strong indicator of how their child will score on the SAT exam, according to author Daniel Pink. Pink created a chart of combined SAT score and family income based on data from...
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Check Out The Lengths ZocDoc Will Go To For Their Patients
This series on Customer Relationship Management is brought to you by Microsoft CRM Solutions The healthcare industry is slowly starting to move online, and internet start-up ZocDoc is there to make...
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This Is The Most Twisted College Recruitment Ad You Will Ever See—And It's Real
When Australia's Central Institute of Technology commissioned up-and-coming comedians Henry Inglis and Aaron McCann to do its promotional video, they should have known that they were going to get more...
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'Work Till You Drop' Is Becoming The Boomers' New Motto
LOS ANGELES (AP) — When Paula Symons joined the U.S. workforce in 1972, typewriters in her office clacked nonstop, people answered the telephones and the hot new technology revolutionizing...
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This Undercover CEO Got So Angry At A Manager That He Revealed Himself And...
The fast food business is rough for the workers on the front line. You earn minimum wage, deal with rude customers, and sometimes, you get an abusive manager that makes your life miserable. Checkers...
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Remember, Those March Madness Office Brackets Could Still Get You Arrested
From March Madness brackets to pay-for-play fantasy football--in every season, there is an opportunity for employees to engage in good-natured sports wagering. There's no denying the popularity of...
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Taco Bell Has A New Slogan To Replace 'Think Outside The Bun'
Taco Bell's killing its "Think outside the bun" slogan and replacing it with "Live mas" (mas means 'more' in Spanish), reports EJ Schultz at AdAge. It's another part of its strategy to turn things...
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IS THIS A RECORD? Young & Rubicam's New York Office Has Seen 15 CEOs Come And...
Young & Rubicam is a giant global ad agency with a long, venerable history behind it. It handles the Xerox, Campbell Soup and Land Rover accounts. The problem is its flagship office on Madison...
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Why Has This Man Raised $2.7 Billion In The Last Three Years?
The list is a "who's who" of hot tech companies: Pinterest. Facebook. Fab. AirBnB. Groupon. Instagram. And that's just a fraction of the portfolio of elite Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm...
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Build Your Product For Women (AAPL, NTDOY)
Women are increasingly displaying their purchasing power in the tech space. From gadgets to social networking sites, some of the biggest product launches in tech have found their success, at least in...
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When Interviewing With Bridgewater, Be Prepared To Spend A Third Of The Time...
Ray Dalio's Bridgewater, arguably the most successful and largest hedge fund in the world, is known for its cult-like office environment and its emphasis on preserving its inner culture. Now, we have...
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The Next Step In The Postal Service's Desperate Consolidation Is Firing Up To...
The USPS has announced the latest part of its strategy to try to save $20 billion over the next three years as it tries to climb out of its debt abyss. It's going to consolidate or close 223 mail...
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Check Out This Amateur-Hour Screwup In P&G's Most Recent SEC Filing (PG)
Procter & Gamble just presented a new corporate strategy to investors that involves 5,700 layoffs and $10 billion in savings over the next five years. Much of that will come by holding back the...
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