With prospects for low inflation, slow growth, and price stability, 1996 is shaping up as a year for business to dig in its heels. The first‐quarter runaway train has braked. The…
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With prospects for low inflation, slow growth, and price stability, 1996 is shaping up as a year for business to dig in its heels. The first‐quarter runaway train has braked. The surge of summer, like our beach gear, has been put away. The fourth‐quarter economic numbers represent a mixed bag with a message: Keep your strategy fresh and be prepared to shift gears with the signals where and when required.
Fidelity Investments has parlayed its mutual funds expertise into a unique spin on corporate philanthropy.
How a mineral fraud in Montana turned into a gem of a business.
Employees who are part of the corporate information loop will bring more to the balance sheet, a new study finds, and CEOs are crafting cultures to plug them in.
Renaissance Hotels and Utell International have developed custom strategies with a common purpose: getting the guests.
Our fifth annual survey of the business leaders to keep an eye on the next year.
During a visit to a biotech company, Patricia Cloherty noticed a can opener attached to a wall, enabling the user to open a container without any reflex action. In the “clean…
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During a visit to a biotech company, Patricia Cloherty noticed a can opener attached to a wall, enabling the user to open a container without any reflex action. In the “clean room” atmosphere of these facilities, where handling volatile materials is commonplace, it made sense. But her initial reaction was decidedly low‐tech. “I thought, 'What a great product for people with arthritis,” she recalls. Over time, the can opener's inventor did, indeed, market it to disabled people who couldn't get a grip on a tool whose maneuverability is taken for granted.
In a sleepy corner of eastern states Pennsylvania, state‐of‐the art technology is transforming a 19th Century steelmaker into a 21st Century mega‐force.
“The common sense element has played significantly in the disasters we've seen,” Tanya Styblo Beder says of the risk management assignments she and her partner, Leslie Lynn Rahl…
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“The common sense element has played significantly in the disasters we've seen,” Tanya Styblo Beder says of the risk management assignments she and her partner, Leslie Lynn Rahl have undertaken for the financial services industry.