Monthly Archives: October 2009

Cutting Calories for Cash

A supermarket chain says it has held its employee health care costs in check by offering financial incentives for healthy behavior.

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Buying Authenticity

In a new media world in which the line between advertising and content can be blurred, federal rules that require bloggers to disclose their relationships with the makers of products they endorse are a necessity, a Wharton professor says.

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Jobs Today, Gone Tomorrow

While Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke recently proclaimed the end of the recession, that probably doesn’t mean much to the additional 283,000 employees laid off in September.

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Marriage Made for Disaster?

Despite the odds against success in a shared corner office, some think Aéropostale can succeed with two CEOs.

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At Least It’s Still a Planet

Now that the Penske Automotive Group has dropped its effort to acquire the Saturn brand from GM, a once-bold experiment seems destined to fade into history.

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