Commentary

In last week’s column, I raised the premise that in the early years of biotech it wasn’t about making money but about providing radically new solutions to health care....

We’re used to weird stories coming out of California, but the failure of flight communications at the Los Angeles flight center has to be one of the weirdest....

A few months back I wrote about the negative effects of what I call process ideology — the predominating belief that most problems in business can be solved by changing the way work activities, responsibilities and decision making are designed....

The recent growth in popularity of two personal communication innovations, instant messaging and cellular phones with cameras installed, has left employee handbooks outdated and presents potential liability for employers....

Yes, getting hired has something to do with packaging. But muzzling a candidate who wants to know about the job’s career potential? That's outrageous. No headhunter has the right to tell you not to find out everything you can about a potential employer....

A recent Associated Press poll suggests that most Americans are happy with their jobs, but more than a third say they have too much work-related stress. This week's column presents poses the question: Are you better off at work now than you were a year...

Advertisers should be careful when they buy search-engine keywords that resemble their competitors' names, writes intellectual property lawyer Deborah Wilcox. Though several suits have been filed over the practice, the legal ground is still uncertain....

Is your corporate image sending messages of love, hate, profanity or sobriety? No matter how and where you travel, with or without your products or your corporate image, the chances are that a lot of your marketing messages are getting lost in translation as they...

Practically everybody knows that ERP isn’t the rude noise somebody makes in a meeting after too many donuts and soda. And most of that savvy population also knows that Enterprise Resource Planning isn’t some silver bullet solving your company-wide functional problems with a single check...