By DAVID GELLES On a recent wintry afternoon, Mark T. Bertolini, the 58-year-old chief executive of Aetna, the health insurer, was sitting in his Hartford office wearing a dark suit and a crisp, white, French-cuffed shirt. But instead of a necktie, he wore a shiny metal amulet engraved with the Sanskrit characters “sohum.” Roughly translated, sohum […]
Passover, Good Friday 2015: Historical Links Highlighted As Christian, Jewish Holidays Fall On Same Day
By Lora Moftah While the Christian Holy Week and Passover usually fall near each other, it is not often that Good Friday and the first night of the eight-day Jewish festival are celebrated on the same day. The rare convergence of the observances is a reminder of the historical links between the two religious holidays. Passover, […]
The 10 Mistakes Everyone Makes When Working From Home
Meghan Casserly Forbes Staff When your commute is as short as your bedroom to your living room, a lot of workplace anxieties go out the window: water-cooler conversations, intra-office workout competitions…whether you’ve worn the same pair of jeans for six days straight. But whether you’re a full-time telecommuter or simply “working from home” for the day, […]
History of April Fool’s Day
On this day in 1700, English pranksters begin popularizing the annual tradition of April Fools’ Day by playing practical jokes on each other. Although the day, also called All Fools’ Day, has been celebrated for several centuries by different cultures, its exact origins remain a mystery. Some historians speculate that April Fools’ Day dates back […]
Exclusive: Cablevision to make $1 offer for New York Daily News
BY LIANA B. BAKER (Reuters) – U.S. cable T.V. operator Cablevision Systems Corp (CVC.N) is planning to make an offer for the New York Daily News as early as this week, valuing the troubled tabloid at just $1, according to a person familiar with the matter. The offer would come one month after New York […]
Linda Zecher of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: The Danger of ‘One Size Fits All’
This interview with Linda K. Zecherthe chief executive of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, a publishing house that also provides educational content, was conducted and condensed by Adam Bryant. Q. Were you in leadership roles or doing entrepreneurial things early on? A. I grew up in Middletown, Ohio. You can’t get any more middle class than that […]
How Much is Too Much? How Often Should You Be Posting to Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Others?
By Vishal Pindoriya Jean Paul Sartre would have had a heyday living in the social media age. Which is more real, your physical existence or your digital existence? Who knows, and I’m not here to debate it either. The existentialist introduction was simply to set the atmosphere for the almost mystical question that I am here […]
The ‘moment of truth’ in customer service
byMarc Beaujean, Jonathan Davidson, and Stacey Madge In recent years, mature companies with far-flung networks of frontline sales staff—banks, retailers, airlines, and incumbent telecom providers, for example—have devoted a great deal of money and effort to retaining their current customers. As many academic studies have noted, the costs of doing so tend to be much lower […]
10 reasons why working in the office work beats telecommuting
By Nick Hardiman There are lots of compelling reasons to work remotely — but some business leaders and employment experts argue that it’s better to work onsite. Virtual teams — geographically scattered colleagues who use high-tech communication — are now common in many organizations. Some of those team members are remote workers and some still work […]
Facebook May Host News Sites’ Content
By RAVI SOMAIYA, MIKE ISAAC and VINDU GOEL Nothing attracts news organizations like Facebook. And nothing makes them more nervous. With 1.4 billion users, the social media site has become a vital source of traffic for publishers looking to reach an increasingly fragmented audience glued to smartphones. In recent months, Facebook has been quietly holding talks with at least half […]
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