Advice for instant lottery millionaires — get a lawyer. (from NBC News Website) That’s the new mantra in an age when winners can become not just rich overnight, but fabulously wealthy multimillionaires with all that entails — fame, celebrity, begging letters and scam artists. The latest Powerball jackpot is worth about $400 million, the fourth […]

(from The Pursuit of Happiness Website) Most people who care for others in a selfless manner do so because of a genuine desire to help and improve the world around them. Nonetheless, modern psychological research has shown that caring has benefits for all involved; people who volunteer or care for others on a consistent basis […]

This interview with Christopher Cabrera, founder and C.E.O. ofXactly, which provides employee-incentive software, was conducted and condensed by Adam Bryant. Q. What were your early influences? A. I was the fourth of five kids, and I learned that you have to fight for everything, including dinner. Once the food was on the table, if you […]

Lotteries in the Ancient and Medieval World Scholars disagree on who started the ancient tradition of lotteries, but there are references in the Bible. In Chapter 26 in the Book of Numbers, Moses used a lottery to award land west of the River Jordan. c. 100-44 B. C.: Forms of lotteries date back to Caesar. […]

By Lou Solomon for The Harvard Business Review If you’re the kind of boss who fails to make genuine connections with your direct reports, take heed: 91% of employees say communication issues can drag executives down, according to results from our newInteract/Harris Poll, which was conducted online with roughly 1,000 U.S. workers. In the survey, employees called […]

This interview with Ann Cairns, president of international markets at MasterCard, was conducted and condensed byAdam Bryant. Q. What were some early influences for you? A. I grew up in the northeast of England, in a small mining village near Newcastle. My dad was a shoemaker who originally made shoes for miners. I grew up […]

BY SCOTT GWIN for CinemaBlend Beginning its third week in release Star Wars: The Force Awakens continues to dominate the box office. Most movies with massive openings tend to drop off more quickly than others, but the seventh Star Wars film continues to buck that trend, slipping just 40% each weekend, retaining a death grip on […]

Revelers began celebrating New Year’s Eve in Times Square as early as 1904, but it was in 1907 that the New Year’s Eve Ball made its maiden descent from the flagpole atop One Times Square. Seven versions of the Ball have been designed to signal the New Year. The first New Year’s Eve Ball, made […]

Thursday night there will be millions celebrating New Year’s Eve around the world.   Where are the top ten places across the globe to sing Auld Lan Syne (which, by the way, simply means ‘times gone by”) while ringing in the New Year? National Geographic has listed the top ten celebrations from New York City […]

From The Financial Brand Website These days the piggy bank is taken for granted — it’s a coin bank, shaped like a pig. Kids love them. But where did they really come from? Why do people around the world stuff loose change into small pink pigs? The origin of piggy banks dates back nearly 600 […]