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Clear Channel has brought its five New York-area music stations from separate offices in Manhattan and New Jersey under one roof, but each station’s offices will maintain distinct identities.
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Balancing a full-time job as a pilot, and a balloon ride business requires perfect organization.
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After the death of a son, you have to force yourself to get back — back to your family, and, as the head of a company, back to that company.
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There are questions to ask yourself about whether a sabbatical is right for you, how to ask for it, and what to do with it.
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The stock market rose last week on news that generally wasn’t very good but was still better than expected.
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Posted: May 3rd, 2008, 10:52pm EDT
Letters from readers concerning the article “Freer Trade Could Fill the World’s Rice Bowl”, published on April 27.
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The phenomenal success of the News Corporation, of which Rupert Murdoch is chairman, owes a lot to his shaking up the business side of media properties — and to risk taking.
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A new study has found that top-performing stocks have a tendency to fall immediately after earnings are announced — whether those earnings are good or bad.
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Clients of asset management firms that have lost much of their glitter, like Private Capital Management, are faced with the quandary of whether to bail out or hope for better days.
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A New Financial Deal, which may follow this financial crisis, should included the dreaded “R” word — regulation — starting in the mortgage market.
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New companies are trying to solve a problem that the Internet itself created — gathering the dense jungle of user-generated content across several platforms into one stream.
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Brain researchers have discovered that when we consciously develop new habits, we create parallel synaptic paths, and even entirely new brain cells, that can encourage a way to innovation.
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The adoption by law enforcement of photo-enforcement technology — surveillance cameras that take a picture of an offending vehicle and its license plate — has unanticipated consequences.
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Go ahead and spend — it’s your patriotic duty. That’s one way to look at the government rebates that are just starting to arrive in taxpayers’ bank accounts and mailboxes.
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The story of CIT illustrates the perils awaiting any firm that jumps into seemingly lucrative new arenas at the expense of focusing on markets that it knows and understands best.
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Dr. Frederick H. Moll has founded the company that dominates the field of robotics in the medical device industry.
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The auction-rate securities mess is another illustration of damaging conflicts of interest at the nation’s big brokerage firms.
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What this year’s television upfronts will actually reveal.
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Many economists took the losses as powerful evidence of a recession, but the cuts’ limited scope raised hopes that a slump would be mild.
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In Hong Kong’s boisterous media, daily newspapers and local television news programs regularly carry photos and reports that would be banned on the Chinese mainland.
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Daphne Koller’s work has led to advances in artificial intelligence that can be used to predict traffic jams, improve machine vision and understand the way cancer spreads.
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Leaders of the Screen Actors Guild and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers said on Friday that they would extend their current round of contract talks through Tuesday.
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The fear of a decaying brain has inspired a mini-industry of products from dietary supplements to computer games.
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The Italian dairy company Parmalat, which collapsed in December 2003 in the country’s largest bankruptcy, agreed to settle a shareholder lawsuit in the United States.
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Weyerhaeuser, one of the world’s largest timberland owners and wood products manufacturers, said it swung to a loss in the first quarter.
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The Washington Post Company reported a 39 percent drop in first-quarter profit, hurt by buyout charges at Newsweek and a continued loss of newspaper revenue.
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Chevron said first-quarter profit rose 9.5 percent, beating Wall Street estimates.
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The Dutch financial services company ING Groep said it would buy the retirement plan administrator CitiStreet, making it the third-largest defined-contribution business in the United States.
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The drug developer Bristol-Myers Squibb said it would sell ConvaTec, its wound therapy and surgical care unit, for $4.1 billion to two private equity firms.
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“The Takeaway,” a brand-new show broadcast on 15 public radio stations, is gearing up to face off with the mother of all public radio shows, “Morning Edition.”
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For those people who own their homes mortgage-free, the question is what to do with a houseful of equity.
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The companies are in active merger talks, people involved said, and Microsoft is said to have increased its offer.
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Rupert Murdoch and Mortimer B. Zuckerman have not signaled they would increase their bid for Newsday to match a higher offer from Cablevision.
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Pfizer has begun negotiating settlements with individual plaintiff’s firms over its Celebrex and Bextra painkillers, a New York lawyer said.
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Blue-chip stocks logged their third weekly advance in a row as investors grew more confident about the economy’s ability to outrun a deep downturn.
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Even if the standard personal finance guidance is to monitor one’s spending over a longer period of time, reviewing a monthly bank statement can be just as valuable.
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Known among enthusiasts as “the hobby,” Colonial-era re-enactments are practiced by fewer than 5,000 people in the United States, and Colonial-era dances are practiced by even fewer.
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Many Web sites purport to replicate real-world experiences online, whether test-driving a car or finding out what coffee flavor you might enjoy best.
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To make sure boards are truly diverse, companies need to take a director’s personality into account when they look to add a member or upgrade their performance, according to psychologists.
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Nortel, which makes telecommunications equipment, reported a loss of $138 million, or 28 cents a share, compared with a loss of $103 million, or 23 cents a share, a year earlier.
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The Census Bureau reported that 2.9 percent of homes intended for owner occupancy were vacant at the end of the first quarter, a number that before 2006 had never exceeded 2 percent.
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The Federal Reserve announced it would increase the size of its cash auctions to banks and allow financial institutions to put up credit card debt, student loans and car loans as collateral for Fed loans.
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Berkshire Hathaway, Warren E. Buffett’s investment company, said on Friday that first-quarter profit tumbled 64 percent because of losses tied to derivative contracts.
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Rock Band, a video game involving players emulating rock ’n’ rollers with toy instruments, helped increase revenue by 16 percent at Viacom’s media networks business.
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Donald E. Felsinger is the chief executive of Sempra Energy, a holding company that operates two Southern California utilities.
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The chief executive of Citigroup, Vikram S. Pandit, finds himself in the position of having to restructure or make changes at the hedge fund he co-founded and that Citigroup purchased.
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Linens ’n Things, the big seller of beddings and home furnishings, also plans to close 120 of its 551 stores in the United States and lay off 2,500 employees.
