“Domestic Violence: Your Coworker’s Dark Secret” is a Fortune online article that blew my mind. First, I was surprised to see that someone in the established media was willing to take on the subject; Second, it’s a well-written, well-researched, and heart-rending article that captivated my attention. From the article:
Now a small but growing group of [...]
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Potpourri Friday
Posted in Aside from Business, Branding & Marketing, Business Ethics, Leadership, Politics, Principled Leadership, Women in Business, work-Life Balance on November 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve been able to catch up on my blogs today, and wanted to put together some interesting, if topically disparate, posts that I came across:
Web 2.0 applications are coming, going, and denting companies’ reputations. See “Losing Face,” about how British Airways and Virgin Atlantic were dinged by their employee’s posts on Facebook, and then [...]
BailoutSleuth – Keeping an Eye on the Wall Street Bailout
Posted in Business Ethics, Politics on October 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
BailoutSleuth is a new journalistic blog that’s keeping track of the shady dealings behind the Wall Street bailout package, by investigating how the money is doled out and who is compensated by the deal. It’s pretty disturbing how this supposedly transparent process is already being circumvented, as portions of publicly-released documents are being blacked out [...]
The “Brain Waste” of College-Educated Immigrants in the US Labor Market
Posted in Business Ethics, Entrepreneurship on October 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Migration Policy Institute released “Uneven Progress: The Employment Pathways of Skilled Immigrants in the United States”, a report that states 1 in 5 college-educated immigrants in the US labor market are stuck in unskilled jobs or, worse, are unemployed. From the press release:
The report, Uneven [...]
Working Mother’s 100 Best Companies List
Posted in Business Ethics, Women in Business, work-Life Balance on October 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Working Mother released its list of the 100 Best Companies for–what else?–working mothers. The editors looked at seven areas:
workforce profile, compensation, child care, flexibility, time off and leaves, family-friendly programs and company culture.
For this year’s 100 Best, we gave particular weight to family-friendly programs, flexibility, leave policies and benefits for part-timers.
Accompanying the list is [...]
Are CEOs Ousted More During Downturns?
Posted in Business Ethics, Leadership on August 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
There’s a new piece of research by Dirk Jenter, Assistant Professor of Finance at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, on whether or not CEOs are ousted because their companies perform poorly, unrelated to their individual performance. You can read the paper here. From the abstract:
This paper examines whether CEOs are fired after bad firm [...]
