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We've previously discussed on this blog the importance of developing an innovative work culture and involving employees at all levels.  In today's post, my Kotter International colleague Ken Perlman discusses how to b...

After AOL (AOL) experienced a loss of 7 cents a year ago, analysts predict positive news when the company reports this year's third quarter numbers on Tuesday, November 6, 2012. They expect a profit of 17 cents a share.

Since markets reopened on Wednesday morning, stocks have taken equity holders for a bit of ride in a short week of trading. After jumping on Thursday in response to positive macroeconomic reports, stocks closed the week ...

It’s unbelievable that in a single day, we can lose everything we spent a lifetime building. Especially when there is no flood insurance! In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, everyone around me is volunteering, do...

Here’s a roundup of MarketWatch’s top stories of the week.

People need to have a purpose. With their money and their lives. Otherwise, they are going to cut both of them short.

Americans are producing more at work and their wage/salary increases are less than rising costs of what they produce and purchase.

New York City officials just announced the first ever cancellation of the New York City Marathon.

(Reuters) - Warren Buffett's conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway Inc reported a larger profit for the third quarter as strength in the railroad and utility businesses, as well as investment gains, offset weaker results in th...

Over the past two decades, Main Street firms have created two of every three new jobs in America. When they do well, everyone does well. Let's do what we can to keep them thriving.

This is a guest post by Craig Birk, director of portfolio management at Personal Capital.

Rina, a mother of five living right on the water in Sheepshead Bay in the Brooklyn borough of New York City had her home flooded in Superstorm Sandy and was forced to evacuate without knowing when she

Would you like a $100,000 grant to test an idea or implement an innovation you've developed? That's a question the federal government is asking -- but few minorities are responding.

Medicare is far from perfect, but it works. Though it's true that Medicare will consume a growing percentage of the GDP in the long-run, it's the dysfunction of our overall health care system that is driving up costs. We...

(Reuters) - The deadline has been pushed back to November 12 for the minority owner of Chrysler Group LLC to reply in a Delaware court to a lawsuit filed by Fiat SpA over the Italian carmaker's attempt to purchase more s...

As residents of the storm battered East Coast try to get back to some semblance of their regular lives, more answers are emerging on the overall economic impact of the hurricane on the U.S. economy.

A look at the wake of one of the biggest storms to ever hit the East Coast.

By Jeff Bailey

Shares of daily-deals firm trade down in light volume, details emerge about an earlier inquiry by regulators over various accounting practices.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Groupon Inc, responding to regulators' inquiries into a controversial revision of its fourth-quarter results and handling of refunds, has promised to shore up disclosure but stopped short of agr...

Mark Henricks

Part of the oil industry clearly wants to return to the era when secrecy was acceptable, when companies and governments kept details of their transactions to themselves. Big oil companies are increasingly isolated in thi...