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CEOs sometimes use literature to pass wisdom on to employees. Square CEO Jack Dorsey, for example, gives every person he hires a copy of Atul Gawande's "The Checklist Manifesto: How To Get Things Right." It's a book ab...

A McDonald's drive-thru promotion in Florida has kickstarted discussions on the treatment of low-wage workers, the quality of food and customer service, and even fast food's effects on health and society in general.

BATS Global Markets is in advanced talks with regulators to settle allegations that one of its units gave unfair advantages to high-speed traders, The Wall Street Journal reports.

MSNBC via YouTube According to American University professor Hillary Mann Leverett, anti-Semitism doesn't exist in the Middle East. The Senior Adjunct Professorial Lecturer at the School of International Service recentl...

Led by its cast of brawny superheroes, a villainous queen and one plucky animated princess, Walt Disney Co.'s film studio drove the company to a 22% increase in net income for its fiscal third quarter.

The inn that threatened $500 fines to guests writing negative reviews is hardly the only example of an attempt to manipulate the user-review system.

The Russian president said that the measures were necessary to protect manufacturers of consumer goods in his country.

The Obama administration said Tuesday it was reviewing potential administrative actions to limit stop companies' so-called tax inversion deals, after Sens. Dick Durbin (D-Illinois), Jack Reed (D-R.I.), and Elizabeth Warr...

Monster Beverage Corp (MNST) is set to report earnings results tomorrow for the second quarter of its fiscal 2014, after the market closes.

Facebook/Richard Preston Richard Preston, author of "The Hot Zone," standing with the skull of a crab-eating monkey, a species infected with Ebola in his book. In light of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, Richard Prest...

Crafting a customer experience that works for today’s changing customer base–including millennials–is no easy task. Key decisions  to be made include self-service vs. human-delivered customer service. And, as muc...

Selling your small business means saying goodbye to a significant part of your life. Preparing to manage your emotions during a sale can ensure you are making sound judgements throughout the process

NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Shares of Bank of America Corp.  are up 2.10% to $15.31 after the Federal Reserve said it approved a resubmitted capital plan from the bank, part of an annual stress test of banks' financial ro...

A social psychologist explains why our brains often jump to irrational, distrusting conclusions--and how to avoid it.

A Florida call center company plans to add about 400 jobs in Central Texas to assist people seeking federal health insurance coverage.

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Several American corporations are using a tax loophole scheme called "inversion" to get out of being American corporations obligated to pay American corporate tax rates. They buy or merge with a non-U.S. corporation (usu...

Several foreign investors suffered steep losses when they recently exited a Chinese property fund once valued at $1 billion, according to the fund's adviser.

Six years after the financial crisis, regulators said that 11 banks deemed too big to fail still have produced no workable procedures to help regulators shut them down should they ever reach the brink of failure.

YouTube YouTube annotations are those little text boxes that pop up when you're watching a video. They're pretty distracting. And while we've all become familiar with clicking that tiny cog turn them off, luckily there's...

The British banking giant is being scrutinized by New York's financial regulator for failing to weed out risky transactions flowing through its American operations.