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By now, stress, burnout, and 24/7 connectivity have become accepted realities of the American workplace. And beyond the toll this takes on our health, the impact of working around-the-clock also has effects on companies ...

In that respect Indians can be glad that Narendra Modi has Raghuram Rajan in the same way that Ronald Reagan had Paul Volcker.

What do Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein and Thomas Jefferson have in common? They all veered from the traditional path. So did Mark Zuckerberg, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, Bill Gates, and two men named Steve (Jobs and Wo...

A man who was once described as an "invisible general" who holds master's degrees in both education and business management is in charge of the military operations against the jihadist group Islamic State and the al-Qae...

It's not just the religious who claim to see faces in inert objects. From shadowy likenesses of Jesus and the Virgin Mary in potato chips and tree stumps to the Man in the Moon, people have been spotting human portraits ...

One of the first steps to the internet we know and love was taken today on this day in 1979, when Compuserve launched its MicroNET service. The post 24 September 1979: Compuserve launches MicroNET was first published on ...

What if you didn’t have to bother typing in your password, use keys or even pull out a credit card ever again?

Many new entrepreneurs are so excited by their latest idea that they can’t resist contacting every investor they know, assuming the investor will be equally excited and want to contribute immediately. Others will work ...

A $10.1 billion class-action judgment against Philip Morris USA is headed back to the Illinois Supreme Court, nearly a decade after the same court threw out the verdict.

The bad news from Tesco sent the stock market tumbling. But that was just for starters, says John C Burford. Expect more to come. The post Tesco - the shot heard around the financial world was first published on MoneyWee...

On Saturday, I was horrified to see a segment of the Fox News program, "Cashin' In," in which host Eric Bolling and several of his panelists made remarks calling for racial profiling, stigmatization, and, ultimately, vio...

It takes a lot of people to run a company successfully, but only one of them can be the final decision maker - the entrepreneur.

China's leaders say the nation's labor market is healthy, while independent economists aren't so sure. But one subject of wide agreement is that the tradition of "hand me down" jobs needs to change.

The Internet giant's U.S. listing went off without a hitch, but it faces questions about the e-commerce market in China and its VIE structure, reports Caixin Online.

This article is by Lisa Colantuono, co-partner of AAR Partners, an agency search consultancy.

A citizens' campaign on climate change meets a populist groundswell against corporate interests.          

The United Nations has set its first ever global deadline to end forest loss, bringing together for the first time actors that have been perennial antagonists.

E-commerce companies see opportunities in selling products as varied as mattresses and eyeglasses, where established companies are accustomed to plump profit margins.

The Washington Post announced large cuts in retirement benefits on Tuesday, declaring that it would eliminate future retirement medical benefits and freeze defined-benefit pensions for nonunion employees.

Forty companies signed a declaration on Tuesday pledging to help cut tropical deforestation in half by 2020 and stop it entirely by 2030.

At the U.N. climate summit, countries and companies joined a partnership to protect forests.          

Soda giants Coca Cola Co., PepsiCo and Dr. Pepper Snapple Group are getting together to urge Americans to stop drinking so many sugary drinks.