Rewards and Reasons: Why Work Pro bono?
Imagine for a moment that you have the chance to run a full page billboard ad in the middle of town trumpeting your fledgling business, or put your work on the front page of a website garnering thousands of hits a day. ...
Local Business' Support of Education - Nonexistent
A friend of mine, a seventeen year-old senior in high school who works extremely hard in school and is a loyal employee to his job at a local business. For brevity's sake, let us call this business PS. This senior is finishing his high ...
Business storytelling in 2008
“Why does communication about business remain so tedious? Most businesspeople describe their dreams and strategies - their stories - just as they’ve been doing for decades: stiffly, from behind a podium, and maybe with a few slides. ...
Holy business of hair
Balsara hasn't been in the business long. He studied business management in London, and eight years ago a friend came up with the idea of exporting hair. At that time, Indian temple hair was being sold at $30 (€20) a kilo. ...
Investing in People: Financial Impact of Human Resource Initiatives
Cascio and Boudreau also introduce powerful ways to integrate HR with enterprise strategy and budgeting and for gaining commitment from business leaders outside the HR function.If you truly want “a seat at the table”–or if you want to ...
XRT Business Exchange Receives IdenTrust Compliant Certification
Paris - La Défense, February xx, 2008 - XRT, the French developer of software packages covering the entire Financial Value Chain, today announced that its XRT Business Exchange 2008, a global platform for exchange and secure payment ...
What's in a Business School's Name?
In September, the University of Washington School of Business struck a $50 million deal with a family foundation to rebrand itself the Michael G. Foster School of Business at the University of Washington, honoring its largest donor. ...
Lawmakers aim to cut business taxes
By raising the threshold when the state's business personal property tax is assessed, and getting rid of a fee on airplane sales to out-of-state buyers, Reps. Bernie Buescher, D-Grand Junction, and Joe Rice, D-Littleton, said Tuesday ...
Visual Branding Keys to Make Your Business Memorable
Have you ever asked yourself why a competitor’s business gets more attention than yours? The answer just may have to do with the elements that go into how memorable the business is, and that has to dHave you ever asked yourself why a ...
Small business blog round-up
I wrote about a new blog aggregating service called AllTop last week and it seems they have added a small business category. AllTop collects the last five posts from dozens of blogs and puts them all on one page, kind of like a feed ...