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In the long history of poor management decisions made at major American companies, only a few proved to be fatal to the firm. Here's a list of them.

Christopher Cantwell never asked to become a moderator of online dating site OkCupid. The site tapped him, without warning, and now he’s privy to private...

By Nadia Damouni and Alexei Oreskovic SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Marissa Mayer, who earned a reputation for decisive action and intensity during her 13-year stint...

A few months ago, Manchester City last season's Barclays Premier League Champions, announced that they were going to release all their match detail and make it available at no charge to fans and statisticians. The match ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Dish Network, the nation's third largest pay-TV provider, has settled its four-year old lawsuit filed by Cablevision and AMC Networks over a high-definition programming agreement, according to statem...

The investor class is sitting on tons of cash, scared of market volatility, worried about the economy, about the high level of debt-- and not especially sanguine about low interest rates making stocks still look cheap.

The average price for a gallon of regular gasoline in the United States fell more than 8 cents during the past two weeks, weighed down by the drop in crude oil prices and low seasonal demand.

George McGovern, the Democratic liberal senator who ran for president in 1972 against Richard M. Nixon and was a hero to many baby boomers, died on Sunday in Sioux Falls, S.D. He was 90.

Dow component Caterpillar Inc. will kick start another busy week of corporate earnings with about 140 S&P 500 companies slated to announce quarterly results.

Hong Kong- and Singapore-based Park Hotel Group expects to finalize plans for three new hotels before the end of this year, CEO Allen Law said on the sidelines of the Forbes Global CEO Conference in Dubai.

America today urgently needs a 21st-century Henry George -- a thinker who embraces the wealth-creating power of capitalism, but squarely faces the inequity of its current manifestation.

The United Arab Emirates has only about eight  million people, a tiny fraction of the United States.  Yet when it comes to business and jobs, it has outperformed much of the world in the past few years. Hence, t...

LAS VEGAS -- Elizabeth Alvisar is exactly the sort of voter Mitt Romney needs. A victim of the brutal economy in this swing state, the...

And I’m not alone. Even the Wall Street Journal agrees. Poor grammar and writing can be the death of an aspiring career Poor grammar and writing is an epidemic in the workplace. While the era of social media an...

Populations of some types of birds in North America have been plummeting, but gardeners can do their part to help stem the decline.

Despite calls to cease using a popular slogan from "Friday Night Lights," Mitt Romney is showing no signs of stopping. The GOP presidential candidate took...

President Barack Obama isn't talking about it and neither is Mitt Romney. But come January, 163 million workers can expect to feel the pinch of a big tax increase regardless of who wins the election.

Long torn between whether it should focus on media content or on tools and technologies, Yahoo under Marissa Mayer is being positioned firmly in the latter camp, according to sources inside and outside the company.

OSLO, Oct 20 (Reuters) - A new U.N. fund meant to manage billions of dollars to help developing nations combat climate change will be based...

Expectations for third quarter earnings reports were dismal. But a recent flurry of high-profile reports has investors scowling even more at the weak revenue numbers.

For our captains of industry to assume that if they "shrug," their workers and the country will collapse, is a narcissistic leap worthy of Ayn Rand herself.

Creaking floors, inexplicable cold drafts and eerie sounds usually don't top the list of dream house features. Unless, of course, we're talking about dream haunted house features.