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Brands Only Deliver on Promises About Half of the Time
Some retail empires, like Nike and Tiffany’s, are built around brands synonymous with quality and prestige. People buy their products because they know what the companies stand for and they...
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Speak Up to Get Your Supervisor to Notice You, Study Says
Quiet? If so, your boss may not be paying too much attention to you. A recent study published in the Journal of Applied Psychology found that managers were less likely to notice or place value in a...
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Digital Advertising Spending on the Rise
Spending on digital advertising continued to grow in 2014, with mobile ad spending showing the sharpest gains, according to a recent Pew Research Center analysis. Advertisers spent $50.7 billion on...
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GoPro Founder Keeps $229 Million Promise to College Roommate
Most people place a high value on keeping a promise. For GoPro billionaire Nick Woodman’s college roommate, it turned out to be worth $229 million. Woodman made good on a 10-year-old promise by...
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Study: U.S. CEOs Paid 373 Times More Than Average Worker
At a time when workers and labor groups are pushing for higher wages, a new study by the AFL-CIO shows U.S. CEOs are paid 373 times more than the average worker. According to the labor organization’s...
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Nearly All of New U.S. Mothers Are Millennials
It wasn’t too long ago that millennials were graduating from college and looking for jobs. Now many of them are having kids and, once again, rewriting the rules for how and where they spend their...
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Shark Tank’s ‘Mr. Wonderful’ Says His Profitable Companies All Have Female CEOs
Kevin O’Leary, a.k.a. “Mr. Wonderful’’ on the reality television series Shark Tank, has some wonderful news for women. Of the profitable businesses in his portfolio, all have female CEOs. O’Leary came...
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Study: Companies Drain Women’s Ambitions After Two Years
Armed with a diploma and a desire to put their skills to work, many women enter the workforce with aspirations of reaching an upper management position. Many are confident in their ability to make it...
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Shoppers Eager to Try In-Store Digital Strategies
Digital technology doesn’t mean doom for traditional brick-and-mortar retailers. While more shoppers have turned to the Internet for many of their purchases, e-commerce is just one piece of the digital...
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CEO Pays for College for Employees’ Kids
Saying he’s nothing without the people who work for him, the CEO of an e-commerce startup has started a college fund to pay his employees’ children’s college tuition. Chieh Huang, head of the wholesale...
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Young Millennials Want to Work at These Companies
Google, Walt Disney Co. and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, young millennials want to work for you. A new survey by the National Society of High School Scholars found those are the most...
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Qapital Uses ‘If This Then That’ to Help Millennials Build Savings
Millennials often have big wants but tiny budgets. A new banking app hopes to change that by allowing users to save money by transferring small increments into a savings account every time a specific...
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50,000 HSBC Bank Employees are Losing Their Jobs
Europe’s largest bank, in an effort to stem sluggish growth and boost profits, is eliminating up to 50,000 jobs in next few years as it cuts costs and sells unprofitable businesses to focus on Asia....
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Some U.S. Hospitals Mark Up Costs by 1,000 Percent
Some U.S. hospitals are charging uninsured and out-of-network patients 10 times more than the actual cost of patient care, according to a new study published in the journal Health Affairs. The study...
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Top 10 States Where Workers Love Their Jobs (And 10 States That Hate Them)
The happiest workers in the United States live out west. That’s the finding of a new report by social media intelligence company Brandwatch and jobs site Monster.com that analyzed more than 1.1 million...
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Gallup Names Two Crucial Questions for Graduates
When it comes to looking for a job, college graduates shouldn’t just focus on salary, benefits and perks. What matters most are the answers to two basic questions: Is there someone who encourages my...
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Majority of Americans Say Low Gas Prices Make a Big Financial Difference
A majority of Americans say lower gas prices are making a big difference in their finances but they aren’t bolstering the economy as some had predicted, a new survey shows. The Gallup poll found that...
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Tech Companies Warn Obama about Encryption Policies
Top U.S. tech companies, including Apple, Google and Facebook, are warning the Obama administration not to impose policies that they believe could weaken the encryption programs that are meant to keep...
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U.S. Rental Market is Surging Thanks to Middle-Aged Renters
With U.S. homeownership at a 20-year low, more middle-age Americans are snatching up rentals, driving up the cost of apartments and other rental housing. A new report by Harvard University Joint Center...
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Federal Government Asks Google for Help Fighting Student Debt Scams
The federal government is asking search engines to keep a watch for suspicious ads and search results relating to phrases such as “student debt forgiveness’’ and “Obama student loan relief.’’ The...
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