updated: Thu Oct 18 2007 06:17:00
Chiwing Jessica Qu volunteered for Unite For Sight in Chenai, India, where she got hands-on eye care experience
Even the best executive could use a bit of nagging to help fix bad habits.
Dear Annie: I am the head of what I thought was a pretty strong, cohesive team. But I just heard from one of the people who reports to me that another subordinate went to my boss and said she could do my job better than I can. I'm not sure if there's some kind of ax to grind between these two subordinates, but this troubles me, since the person who allegedly badmouthed me is my top performer. (I jumped through flaming hoops to get her an extra 2% bonus last year.)
Dave Malone is a traveling man. He makes at least 40 trips a year for business, and has done so for some 30 years.
Accenture Ltd., the fourth-largest U.S. technology consulting company, said Thursday that quarterly profit rose as it benefited from strong demand for its consulting services.
ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER RECORD. Every trading session this spring, it seemed, brought the Dow Jones and S&P 500 indexes to new heights. Driven by a tsunami of corporate buyouts and better-than-expected profit growth, stock prices kept climbing—nearly 10% for the year before a stumble in early June. Some optimists claimed the bull still had years to run.
Here are some facts from tonight's broadcast that you might find interesting. • U.S. Military Aid to Mexico 2007: $59 million • U.S. Military Aid to Columbia 2007: $585 million Sources: Center for International Policy: Facts Center for International Policy: "Below the Radar"
So far, 2007 has not resembled golf's Golden Age. Here are the ten biggest disappointments thus far in golf this year:
DULUTH, Ga. (AP) -- Kevin Sutherland shot a 7-under 65 infavorable scoring conditions Thursday to take a two-stroke leadafter the first round of the AT&T Classic.
AUGUSTA, Ga., April 6 -- Paul Casey, Padraig Harrington and Jerry Kelly were the only players to break 70 Friday as the 2007 Masters continued to confound the players. The struggles of one man, Tiger Woods, spoke loudest.
AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) - Henrik Stenson was one of the popular darkhorse picks for this year's Masters. He did nothing in the first round to prove the prognostigators wrong.
Stocks took a hit at Wednesday's U.S. open as investors pondered tough news on oil and the economy.
MIAMI (AP) - One month after Henrik Stenson captured his first World Golf Championship event, he looks as if he's ready for another.
It's funny how quickly the supposedly hard-hitting Washington media forgot about the bad treatment the defunct Booz Allen Classic (formerly the Kemper Open) received from the PGA Tour once the D.C. area became the replacement venue for the International in July.
It's funny how quickly the supposedly hard-hitting Washington media forgot about the bad treatment the defunct Booz Allen Classic (formerly the Kemper Open) received from the PGA Tour once the D.C. area became the replacement venue for the International in July.
Modest growth might have been acceptable a few years ago in the wake of the dotcom crash, but in today's competitive climate, slow and steady just doesn't cut it. Midsize companies are squeezed bet...
On Sunday evening the scorecard said that Henrik Stenson was the winner of the Accenture Match Play Championship. Perhaps the real victor, though, was a gentleman who passed away in September at the age of 94. When Nick O'Hern eliminated Tiger Woods in the third round at the Gallery's South course, thus halting Woods's streak of PGA Tour wins at seven, Byron Nelson's hallowed record of 11 straight victories in 1945 acquired even more luster. Now it looks downright unassailable, and only one question remains: Is this the greatest individual sports streak of all time?
The WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship at The Gallery at Dove Mountain in Tucson, Ariz., starts Wednesday with 32 first-round matches. Need help filling out your bracket? SI.com's Alan Shipnuck is here to help. He predicts every match in every round (that's 64 matches, including the consolation match).
Are insurers more hard-nosed with claims than they used to be?
When Jacqueline Epcar of Valley Glen, Calif. turned 19 last year, she no longer qualified for coverage on her parents' health plan. So her mother, Ellyn, signed her up for a new individual policy with Blue Shield of California.
Though he jumped off the corporate ladder to launch a nonprofit, John Wood doesn't necessarily favor yurts and youth hostels. As author of the new book Leaving Microsoft to Change the World: An Ent...
If corporate America has indeed become gay-friendly, there are few better places to witness the trend happening en masse than the annual Reaching Out conference for gay and lesbian MBA students.
It might seem like the simplest thing in the world to join forces with companies whose interests are complementary to yours. But statistics tell another story.
1. Diagnose the Challenge
Security software vendor Symantec unveiled a new strategy and rolled out a set of souped-up products Tuesday as it faces increased competition from Microsoft.
Accenture Ltd. ranks no. 379 on FORTUNE's Global 500 this year, with $17.1 billion in revenues, up 13.1% from the previous year. The New York, New York-based company was ranked no. 455 on the 2005 list. Its 2005 profits were $0.9 billion, up 36.1% from a year earlier.
Electronic Data Systems ranks no. 316 on FORTUNE's Global 500 this year, with $20.5 billion in revenues, down 2.4% from the previous year. The Plano, Texas-based company was ranked no. 274 on the 2005 list. Its 2005 profits were $0.2 billion, down 5.1% from a year earlier.
Microsoft ranks no. 140 on FORTUNE's Global 500 this year, with $39.8 billion in revenues, up 8% from the previous year. The Redmond, Washington-based company was ranked no. 127 on the 2005 list. Its 2005 profits were $12.3 billion, up 50% from a year earlier. 2005 was a banner year for most Global 500 companies.
Retail investors had three bits of bad news this morning: Wal-Mart's disappointment, Home Depot's warning, and Buffett's Gap dump. The question is, should they connect the dots or not?
From Indonesia to Iraq, developing countries can mean big new markets. But foreign locales can also be risky - as in physical danger. Whether it's a mugging, flu outbreak, anti-American backlash, o...
Faced with eroding businesses and defecting customers, phone companies have been trumpeting the arrival of IPTV, or Internet Protocol Television.
Homeowner premiums jumped by a third between 2001 and 2004, according to J.D. Power & Associates. So you'd think you could get more love, right? Wrong. You're paying not for service but to make up ...
Wal-Mart may stock just about everything you need, but you still have to actually go inside the store to get it. Soon you might be able to pick up your groceries, dry cleaning, office supplies, pre...
Dear Annie: I just read your Oct. 3 column, citing a survey of human resources people who "claim to regard middle managers as critical to the success of the company." On what planet? I am a middle ...
No matter when you were born, you march to the beat of the baby boom. The high birth rate after World War II created a generation of 76 million whose sheer size has shaped U.S. consumption and inve...
You know that boss you've been hoping would retire? He soon will, along with tens of millions of other senior employees across the country.
Earlier this year my wife and I flew into Newark Airport on a Continental Airlines flight from Madrid. We had less than two hours to make a connecting flight to San Francisco, but 70 minutes later ...
CHARLES MCLEAN IS A POLLSTER, BUT he doesn't poll people. People, after all, are expensive to call, and you never know whether you're talking to the right ones, and sometimes they lie to you. That'...
We hardly need more evidence of the unparalleled political power of Corporate America. But while Congress recently approved billions more in corporate tax cuts, a new report showed that the United States' biggest and most profitable companies have been paying less in federal income taxes over the past three years despite reporting higher profits. And many of them are paying no taxes at all.
Though flush with cash, U.S. businesses aren't providing quite the lift to the economy analysts once hoped, meaning the recent so-so pace of the expansion could continue for a while longer.
Washington Mutual not long ago had all the makings of an epic growth story. Starting in 1996, it transformed itself from an obscure Seattle thrift into not only America's biggest mortgage bank but ...
Ugly.
AT&T Corp. will pay $400,000 in fines and issue refunds to about 300,000 New Yorkers to settle claims that it billed people who had not signed up for one of its long-distance plans, the New York Attorney General said Tuesday.
The U.S. government doesn't hand out $10 billion to a single company every day. So the announcement this month that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) had awarded Accenture a contract for th...
House Democrats missed two important opportunities last week.
Stability in the oil market and the proposed $3.24 billion sale of the Marshall Field's retail chain could be contributing factors to a higher open for the U.S. trading week that comes to an end Thursday.
Investors will be looking at the economic data due out Thursday hoping for some insight into how aggressively the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates, as well as news about Accenture, Apple and H&R Block.
Jobs in the service industry are moving overseas to India, China and other countries at a much faster pace than had initially been expected, a study said Monday.
In another sign of the attention focused on the outsourcing of U.S. jobs, one of the nation's top business schools has started a course on the controversial subject.
The last thing a company wants in its factories, trucks, or corporate offices is a layer of dust. But "smart" dust? That's a different story.
Technology stocks finished mostly lower Tuesday as investors locked in profits on recent gains and cautiously awaited the upcoming batch of quarterly earnings reports.
Trading among U.S. stocks could begin cautiously Tuesday as investors pause to consider a run-up that has brought the Nasdaq composite index to a 2-1/2 year high, in addition to some key earnings reports.
Dear Annie: I've spent the past 17 years at a FORTUNE 500 company that has been "in turnaround" (with no clear results yet) for most of a decade. As a fortysomething manager about to finish grad sc...
When 18-year-olds entered college four years ago, dot-com mania was at its height, the Dow was at 11,000, and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire was the top show on TV. Companies desperate to fill their...
As the luncheon at the swank Miami resort begins, Mary Tolan takes a seat and braces herself. After weeks of frantic preparation, Tolan, a superstar at the big consulting firm Accenture, has just u...
AT&T used to love hiring management consultants. At any given time there were as many as 300 people from the country's most elite and revered strategy firms--McKinsey & Co., the Boston Consulting G...
OBJECTION D'ART: A Wichita State University study finds that college students are graduating with more debt than their salary prospects justify. The worst off: art history majors, with debt levels ...
Leave it to Michael Dell to buck the odds. While the past few years have been brutal for most tech companies, Dell's eponymous firm, the nation's leading direct marketer of personal computers, has ...
Arthur Andersen's reputation was as tattered as Enron's files by the time a Houston jury sentenced the firm to death in June. Yet the company's infamous end overshadows its 89-year history. Below, ...
The concept makes perfect sense. A customer walks into a store looking for a white shirt, and the salesperson manages to convince him to get a pair of chinos too. Instead of just $40, the store has...
Contrary to what most B-school applicants think, being wait-listed--or denied--doesn't mean you don't have options.
--Brent Habig wasn't always an opera fan. His instrument of choice as a music student at Oberlin College was the piano. "I didn't get it," he says of opera's divas and drama. "It was so overblown, ...
It's a frigid early morning in January, and Michael DePasquale, or Rusty, as he prefers to be called, has finished loading his van with containers of milk, sugar, cups, and coffee-brewing equipment...
When we sat down in November to begin our hunt for the best investments for 2002, we "lacked visibility" (to use Wall Street's current favorite phrase) about where the market was headed. Specifical...
The buzz around the Silicon Valley right now is that Hewlett Packard's proposed merger with Compaq is one of the few things propping up the dealmaking business. Indeed, the battle to push through t...
On my 11th birthday, back in 1964, I moved from the North Shore suburbs of Chicago to Lagos, Nigeria. My father ran a project there to spur industrial develop-ment. In my two years in Africa's most...
Last year, compared with the infantile dot-coms, consulting firms seemed to be fully evolved. Business school grads were drawn to predictable career tracks and job security. But in the past few mon...
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Scott Ryan was in a quandary. He couldn't ignore a nagging urge to do more for the less fortunate--but he also loved his career as a financial consultant at Accenture in New York City. "The questio...
Since Shaheen stepped down as CEO of Webvan earlier this month, we've been wondering where the 56-year-old former CEO of Andersen Consulting will end up next. For this question (and not, alas, "Cou...
The dot-coms are dead. Long live the dot-coms! That's the message from more than 2,000 MBA students at 35 schools surveyed by academic consulting firm Universum.
These are glory days for Bob Chrismer. In fact, they're almost too good. The head of global recruiting at consulting firm A.T. Kearney is overwhelmed with job acceptances. For the first time in the...
It was pure bile. But Kyle Shannon, co-founder of e-commerce consultancy Agency.com, dove in headfirst. He logged on to Vault.com and started reading a slew of messages that anonymous Net users--al...
KPMG Consulting's recent IPO sure seemed like a courageous move, especially for pencil pushers. In February, with the market for new issues decidedly frozen, the company sold off a 70% stake to the...
When Living.com started dying last year, Rath Yin saw the writing on the wall--or in the fridge, to be exact. The kitchen cupboard, once stocked with goodies to fuel Yin and his fellow programmers ...
Bruce Wong was a recruiter's worst nightmare. He liked his job as a clinical scientist at SmithKlein Beecham and had no desire to leave. Wong had agreed to interview at archrival Bristol-Myers Squi...
After a three-month search, Andersen Consulting finally has a new name. As of next year, it'll be known as-- ta-da!--Accenture (rhymes with "adventure"). The brainchild of Andersen consultant Kim P...
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