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Business customs vary tremendously around the world — what might be considered rude in one country can be completely acceptable in another.  To help employees understand how office etiquette varies, UK office supplier...

You've got an important interview coming up. You know you have the skills for the job ... but do you have the personality and style they are looking for? Are your values and work ethic a match with those of the organizat...

Oli Scarff/Getty Images Some of your best employees are secretly looking for another job. How do I know this? Because I'm helping them. As a career coach, I spend my days helping people make career changes, which means I...

The political establishment is marshaling forces for a smackdown of Wall Street corruption. The financial elite is fretting over an apocalyptic future of more regulation, more taxes, more fees (and less profit). Meanwhil...

One day in May 1738, legend has it, a woman approaching the end of her pregnancy was walking down a street in Saintes, France, when she heard the cries of a man being executed on the town’s breaking wheel. (The condemn...

Bloomberg Bloomberg LP's famed Square Mile Relay is finally coming to New York's Financial District on Thursday, April 21. The race will feature more than 100 teams from Wall Street investment banks and other financial f...

AP Photo/Douglas C. Pizac When I was in college at the University of Iowa in 1991, there was a mass shooting. A graduate student, upset that he had not received a coveted honor, walked into a university building and sho...

Lane Bryant For decades, images of ultra-slim models have appeared in windows, on magazine covers, on billboards, and on television. But thanks the prevalence of curvy supermodels like Denise Bidot and Ashley Graham, t...

One of the reasons Tinder has been such a resounding success is that it functions like a game. Even if you never go on a date, swiping this way and that, and seeing who thinks you’re attractive, is just inherently fun....

While software is a necessary part of the analytics process, it's less critical than many people make it out to be. Hundreds of analytics software products are available, and the products have a lot of similarities.

The February Bangladeshi central bank heist that resulted in the theft of more than $100 million from its account with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York could have been thwarted by a 3.6-inch piece of computer hardwar...

The rise in online dating may be bringing money into the nightlife industry.

Peter Manning, fashion guru to short men, is enjoying an unexpected lift from his banker. M&T Bank recently began airing one-minute, prime-time TV commercials about its small business loans, featuring some of its success...

Warning: There are spoilers ahead if you haven't seen "Batman v Superman." If you head out to see "Batman v Superman" and are a fan of "The Walking Dead," you're in for an extra surprise. The beginning of the film has an...

Undoing the 54-year-old embargo will take rounds of negotiations in the embattled Congress.

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer downplayed the threat posed by activist investors for more than a year, dismissing the danger as a noisy distraction and setting the stage for a showdown that could now cost Mayer her job. The fig...

Vladivostok's Tigre de Cristal is reaching out East Asian gamblers from Russia with love.

In the first and second parts of this interview series with Barbara Feldon, the actress discussed her role as Agent 99 on Get Smart including the cone of silence, famous catch phrases, her own favorite episode, the broa...

The Valeant Pharmaceuticals nightmare that is occurring for Bill Ackman probably feels like a flashback to his last foray into taking charge of a major public company. That didn't turn out so well. The hedge fund magnate...

A federal judge ruled that law-school graduates who file for bankruptcy protection can cancel the debt they racked up while studying for the bar exam, finding such loans are different from traditional federal student loa...

In 2009, Robyn Fisher, with an MBA from Stanford University, launched Smitten Ice Cream in a Radio Flyer Wagon she pulled around San Francisco. She made her ice cream to order using a tank of liquid nitrogen. Today, Fish...

From 27% a year ago, the contribution of revenue from the chemicals division increased 4.8 percentage points to 32% in the nine months of the current fiscal