We are now seeing news reports that retirement is about to become a thing of the past. If only out of economic necessity. Boomers can't afford to retire now that the market has damaged retirement...

All over the world, the story is the same. Hit by declining circulation and advertising that is at best sluggish, newspapers are cutting jobs. It causes me a lot of pain to see it happening at my old...

Everyone knows the problems General Motors has been having building the sort of autos that people don't want to drive any more. So much so that GM and Ford have dragged the US car industry into a...

One of the most bizarre cases yet with the FBI arresting a blogger for blogger for breaking copyright laws by posting copies of songs from the soon-to-be-released Guns N' Roses album, Chinese...

Why are there more male leaders, both corporate and political, than female? A new study has confirmed something we have all long suspected - a fair bit of gender bias.The study from the Pew Research...

All around the world, newspaper circulation figures are heading south. There are various explanations for that, mostly related to the Internet.Slate's Jack Schafer provides an interesting...

So Starbucks is sliding to its first quarterly loss, announcing it would close 650 cafes and cut 13,000 jobs. The Financial Times puts it down to the poor US economy with high gas prices and other...

The crisis is the result of Orthodox business strategy.That's the view put forward by strategic adviser Umair Haque in his entry on the Harvard Business Review blog site, titled Saving Strategy...

Is the end nigh for the US auto industry. Will the big three turn into two?That's the question raised by The Economist as it ponders the fate of GM, Ford and Chrysler. GM's stock has fallen...

Interesting piece in The Economist about a new business model in Asia where multiplayer online games rely on a strategy where the the company gives away the software as a free download and lets users...

Call it a sign of the times. Disturbing piece in Newsweek about how businesses are now paying $10,000 a month for so-called "psychic consultants" , to provide advice and help build...

Two weeks ago, I looked at how soaring oil prices will turn flying into hell.Now we have some advice from BusinessWeek's Traveler's Check blog on how to save the industry.Bob Crandall, the...

Seeking to shore up the female vote, and win over supporters of Hillary Clinton's failed bid for the US presidency, john mccain has turned to forrmer Hewlett-Packard chief Carly Fiorina. Once the...

It was amazing enough to read the report that President Bush has not sent a single email message during his eight years in power. Apparently, it's all that concern about the...

Businesses might be concerned about higher taxes and a tougher line on trade but Wall Street is putting its money on Barack Obama for president, according to Reuters.According to this report, Obama...

So you reckon it takes an executive only a few months to get up to scratch with a new job? Think again.According to new research, published here, almost one in three top executive hired from another...

Interesting thoughts from Thomas Stewart at the Harvard Business Review blog on the way airlines continually wage war on their customers. He says it usually happens when companies get in a panic when...

Michael Dell sure has his work cut out turning his company around.Earlier this week, Dell was found guilty of false advertising and fraud. It came amidst enormous complaints about the way Dell went...

With the credit squeeze and soaring energy prices, it's worth asking whether investors can see that far ahead. How do investors read trends and make the right calls?Emory University academics ask...

Can the biggest get bigger? Can companies get too big to grow? That's the interesting question raised in this Harvard Business Review piece that looks at research showing how companies get to a...