By RACHEL DODES When it comes to knitting, Lydia Schoenbein thought she had seen it all. The 73-year-old retired nursing-home supervisor from Morton, Ill., learned to knit and crochet when she was growing up in Germany and can make everything from socks and shawls to cable-knit sweaters. So when her 22-year-old granddaughter, Carly Hill, visited […]

In an ideal world, a master class available to everyone would reveal all the secrets to retirement planning, telling you how much to save, where to invest and what to do when the stock market crashes. After all, there are few entirely conflict-free places where investors can educate themselves on the topic, and there’s little […]

This interview with Dolf van den Brink, president and chief executive of Heineken USA, was conducted and condensed by Adam Bryant. Q. What was your career plan coming out of college? A. I was on my way to becoming a banker. I had three offers, and then I realized I wasn’t sure it was the kind of work I […]

This interview with Brian O’Kelley, chief executive of AppNexus, an advertising technology company, was conducted and condensed by Adam Bryant. Q. Were you an entrepreneur early on? A. I was always a failure at lemonade stands, but when I was in high school I was into computers. A buddy of mine and I started building Web sites for local […]

Q. Were you in leadership roles early on? A. Nothing that I can really think of. I wouldn’t say that from the beginning people said, “You know, that’s the guy in charge, and your peers always vote for you.” I had a lot of friends, and I had a lot of people I got along […]

World War I – known at the time as “The Great War” – officially ended when the Treaty of Versailles was signed on June 28, 1919, in the Palace of Versailles outside the town of Versailles, France. However, fighting ceased seven months earlier when an armistice, or temporary cessation of hostilities, between the Allied nations […]

The Prince of Asgard makes a welcome return to the big screen in his latest solo adventure. The reviews are in for Marvel’s Thor: The Dark World and by most accounts, the Alan Taylor-directed sequel does a credible job recapturing the magic of 2011’s Thor as our hammer-wielding hero (played by Chris Hemsworth) sets out to save the Nine Realms from […]

NETGEAR is best known as a company that makes the routers that direct Wi-Fi traffic on home computer networks, but its fastest growing product isn’t a router. It’s a device called a network extender, which is meant to improve — and extend — a home’s balky Wi-Fi signal. That surprising fact about Netgear should tell […]

Five years ago, a start-up called Liazon began offering businesses a new way to provide health insurance to employees. On Liazon’s Bright Choices, an online marketplace, a company can specify how much money it wants to spend on each employee’s benefits, and employees can use that contribution to buy the plan of their choice. Liazon was among […]

Empowering front line team members to make decisions is essential to providing world class customer services.  This hilarious sketch nails it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HH0kS-migjY