Laying Claim to Your Ideas
A brief guide to getting started on patents, copyright, or trademarks.
Content: Article | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: Legal
The Upstart Small Business Legal Guide
An online book covering the legal basics of starting and running a business. Includes 20 chapters:
1. You and Your Attorney
2. How to Get Started in Business
3. How to Select the Best Business Form
4. How to Make Your Corporation Tax-Free
5. Buying or Selling a Business
6. Franchises
7. How to Save Time on … [ Read more ]
Content: Online Resource | Author: Fred S. Steingold | Sources: BusinessWeek, FindLaw | Subjects: Legal, Small Business
Commercial Printing Market
Corporate Charity Facts
Why Korea’s Crony Capitalists Are Still in Charge
“Despite government vows to reform Korea’s bloated public sector along with the rest of the economy, state-owned companies continue to be run as political fiefdoms, their top ranks filled with politicians who have been put out to pasture or are owed big favors.”
Content: Article | Author: Moon Ihlwan | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: International – Asia
Executive Search Firm Market / CEO Statistics
A Global Think Tank Targets the Factory
Can hundreds of research teams working together rewrite the way we manufacture? [A look at the Intelligent Manufacturing Systems (IMS) – program]
Content: Article | Author: Adam Aston | Source: BusinessWeek | Subjects: Best Practices, Operations | Industry: Manufacturing
The CEO Trap
Article examines the trend toward viewing the CEO as a superhero and putting him/her in a position to satisfy Wall Street or be fired.
Content: Article | Authors: Anthony Bianco, Louis Lavelle | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: Corporate Governance
Russia’s Middle Class
Managers without Borders
Europe’s companies, executives, and workers are becoming more mobile, flexible, and transnational.
Content: Article | Authors: Carol Matlack, Kerry Capell | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: International – Europe
As Leaders, Women Rule
Twenty-five years after women first started pouring into the labor force–and trying to be more like men in every way, from wearing power suits to picking up golf clubs–new research is showing that men ought to be the ones doing more of the imitating…That’s the essential finding of a growing number of comprehensive management studies conducted by consultants across the country…By and large, the studies … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Author: Rochelle Sharpe | Source: BusinessWeek | Subjects: Trends / Analysis, Women in Business
Facts and Figures – South Korea
‘Tis Better to Give—Really
With donor-advised funds, you can avoid capital gains, get a huge income-tax break, and support your favorite cause.
Content: Article | Author: Robert Barker | Source: BusinessWeek | Subjects: Social Responsibility (ESG), Taxation
Bluetooth Forecast
A Wireless Revolution Called Bluetooth
Article provides a plain-english look at a new wireless technology that has the potential to shake up several markets.
Content: Article | Author: Stephen Baker | Source: BusinessWeek | Subjects: IT / Technology / E-Business, Trends / Analysis | Industry: Telecommunications
A Better Way to Float Your Resume
You can customize your job hunt on small sites.
Content: Article | Author: Alex Salkever | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: Career
Smart Card Market
Inside the Bank of Japan
Although focused on a time-sensitive issue, this article offers some insight into some serious and important issues regarding the role of a central bank in peculiar economic circumstances. Some of the proposed solutions are very thought-provoking. Also an interesting profile of Masaru Hayami, governor of the Bank of Japan and some of the history of the current troubles with Japan’s economy.
Content: Article | Author: Brian Bremner | Source: BusinessWeek | Subjects: Economics, International – Asia | Industry: Government
Sanjiv S. Sidhu
Founder and chairman of i2 Technologies Inc., the Dallas-based maker of e-commerce software.
Content: Thought Leader | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: Management | Industry: Software
Why Service Stinks
Studies by groups ranging from the Council of Better Business Bureaus Inc. to the University of Michigan vividly detail what consumers already know: Good service is increasingly rare (charts). From passengers languishing in airport queues to bank clients caught in voice-mail hell, most consumers feel they’re getting squeezed by Corporate America’s push for profits and productivity. The result is more efficiencies for companies – and … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Author: Diane Brady | Source: BusinessWeek | Subjects: Customer Related, Marketing / Sales