American taxpayers would have to pay anywhere from $329 to $2,475 annually per household for 30 years, depending on what state they live in, to remedy the crises in their public employee pensions, a new study said Wednesday.
So you want a job at a top investment bank like Goldman Sachs, or consultancy like McKinsey, or law firm like Sullivan & Cromwell. In our meritocratic society, where CEOs can begin in the mailroom and Siliconillionaires have dropped out of college, the trick is to work hard and produce excellence, right? Not so. You're better off just attending Harvard and playing lacrosse, according to a recent curious study.
Vacations are critical to our health, but many Americans don't take them. In 2009, KING's Eric Wilkinson covered the ongoing issue.
Mary Kole loves her job, but she's been feeling like she's lost the line between "work" and "not work."
Successful business leaders are well aware of the power of body language, but new research is suggesting that "powerful" body language could be more important than your rank in an organization.
The foreclosure plague may have finally reached its peak in April 2010 -- but don't expect delinquency statistics to plummet anytime soon.
Dear Annie: Please settle an argument. My husband has a management job that was stressful enough before the recession but, over the past year and a half, has gotten much worse. He is obviously miserable, and I think he should look for another position -- even in this rotten job market -- before his current situation damages his health and his career.
Don't look now, but your big bank wants you back.
The ads for this year's Super Bowl ran the gamut from popular TV shows to celebrity cameos to motherly love -- but the oddest and most omnipresent theme was men without pants.
It's a telling sign of the times that one of the most popular commercials in last Sunday's Super Bowl was from an online pawn shop.
American's fee on checked luggage is a calculated gamble that consumers would rather shell out at the airport than pay higher ticket prices
New research finds that if people feel powerful in their job, they're more competent at it
This spring I received an e-mail from a friend with the heading "Are We Millionaires Yet?" She had just heard that one of our neighbors had placed his home on the market for $839,000, which we agre...
This spring I received an e-mail from a friend with the heading Are We Millionaires Yet? She had just heard that one of our neighbors had placed his home on the market for $839,000, which we agreed was a shocking sum.
Rebecca Martinez O'Mara insists that she got her job because she stopped looking for one.
The Financial Accounting Standards Board wants to revise the income statement, that all-important piece of financial reporting that delivers a company's bottom line. Here's a way to do it that will...
Oscar and Felix's contentious relationship made for great TV comedy. But bickering with your business partner isn't a laughing matter. Signs that your relationship's going from sitcom to prime-time...
Here's a business-school case study for class discussion: What happens when all the MBA students ditch school to seek their fortunes on the Web?
When Yael Alkalay, 30, graduated from business school at Columbia University, she decided to launch her own candle and toiletries business. But rather than rely on the typical entrepreneur's assets...
Almost 37,000 Japanese students were enrolled in U.S. colleges and universities during the 1990-91 academic term, a 22.7% increase over the previous year. The total number of foreign students on U....
Run your own show. Be top dog. Win out. You'd have to be almost un-American to resist these rallying cries of late-20th-century what's-in-it-for-me capitalism. Bulletin from the front, biznewsniks:...
Oh mama it hurts. You wanted the promotion. You worked hard for it. In the secret, smug recesses of your heart, you even expected it. Then the company ups and gives the job to someone else. In the ...
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