As commercial vacancies increase, cities are feeling the pain of lower tax revenues. read more...

Portland, Oregon has been recently declared the most depressed city in the country. BusinessWeek determined this based on "antidepressant sales, suicide rates, unemployment, divorce, and crappy weather." Philly didn't make the top 20 list. That's because we're too busy enjoying......

Copyright © 2009 Shannon. Visit the original article at http://www.blogsbywomen.org/blog/work/female-deans-on-the-rise-at-business-schools/. In the early 1990s, the country was left in amazement when Patricia Flynn went from being an economics professor at Bentley University to being the dean o...

My friend Bruce Weinstein (Swarthmore ‘82, like me) wrote an interesting essay recently in BusinessWeek: Are You a Good Leader?. I was impelled to share the following with him. There’s a famous story in my family about the guy (a relative, but I can’t remember which one) who appli...

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Yesterday BusinessWeek discussed an interesting phenomenon we witness on a daily basis online but rarely pay much attention to - that of people contributing long hours of their work (often something that they do for a living) to certain websites for free in hopes of being rewarded with some sort of ...

1. Weekly Standard editor and New York Times columnist William Kristol was hardly alone in thinking that the Democratic primary was Clinton's to lose, but it took a special kind of self-confidence to make a declaration this sweeping more than a year before the Iowa caucuses. After Iowa, Kristol......

In other words, they would have to pay you to take what is rapidly becoming Manhattan's quaint little alternative newspaper off their hands. Yesterday, New York Times Company stock closed at $5.72. That is, by far, its lowest close in the 22 years presented in this chart at Yahoo!: Before today's op...

BusinessWeek did a profile on LinkedIn’s Co-founder, Chairman and President of Products Reid Hoffman. Senior Writer, Stephen Baker describes the business trajectory both of Reid and LinkedIn over the past years. The piece takes a unique look at why professionals need LinkedIn and why you shoul...

Has Second Life, the weird, clunky virtual world, ever been good for anything except strange computer sex and time-wasting? For about a year there, you couldn't pick up a magazine without seeing 2L touted as the next big thing for business. For business! Yes, why wouldn't an imaginary land packed wi...