Jun 30 Column: What’s behind these big merger deal busts? By Ben Gomes-Casseres Anti-trust authorities have been active of late: several big merger deals have been stopped dead in their tracks. Continue reading
Jun 29 Column: Forget the white picket fence, the American Dream is in the city By Vikram Mansharamani The suburbs still offer a great deal, but there’s a powerful countertrend that is increasingly hard to ignore: a renaissance in cities. Continue reading
Jun 28 The business class where high school students are running the company By Vic Pasquantonio A 20-year-old entrepreneur credits a high school business class with giving him the skills and drive to start his own company. Continue reading
May 19 One former bank executive’s quest to make the workforce more ‘neurodiverse’ By Paul Solman Former bank executive Lynne Wines came to Harvard looking to scale and fine-tune a program to get businesses to hire more more "neurodiverse" employees -- that is, people with Asperger's, autism, dyslexia, post-traumatic stress disorder, Tourette's -- people whose brains… Continue reading
May 14 Business lobby calls for U.S. to drop sanctions on Myanmar By Michael D. Regan and Matthew Pennington, Associated Press The U.S. business lobby says it is high time to drop the remaining U.S. sanctions on Myanmar, but human rights activists and U.S. lawmakers say not so fast. Continue reading
Apr 26 What Oprah and Warren Buffett can teach us about risk By Denise Cummins What do Oprah Winfrey and Warren Buffett have in common? They are both calculated risk takers. Continue reading
Apr 01 Apple turns 40 today. It almost didn’t make it to 20 By Paul Solman Twenty years ago, Apple was rotting. Today, on its 40th anniversary, Apple's stock price is $109 a share. Continue reading
Mar 17 Trump faces obstacles in bid to shake up corporate America By Bernard Condon and Michael Liedtke, Associated Press Donald Trump's railing about what's wrong in corporate America goes further than the typical political populism: He vows to rewrite trade deals, tax imports and punish U.S. companies. And he's naming names. Continue reading
Jan 25 Helping the ‘overlooked’ businesses of Silicon Valley By Larisa Epatko Matt Kreutz got the baking bug early. As a teen, he went to a vocational school in Chantilly, Virginia, and encountered a teacher-chef who nurtured his “ragamuffin” students. That's where he fell in love with food and people who were… Continue reading
Jan 22 How firms avoid U.S. tax codes through pass-through businesses By Making Sen$e Editor The importance of pass-through business entities has soared in the past three decades. Over the same period, the amount of pass-through business income flowing to the top 1 percent of income earners has increased sharply, according to a new paper… Continue reading