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How to Use Crowdsourcing Inside Your Middle Market Business
In 2012, brewery Anheuser-Busch solicited the feedback of over 25,000 beer drinkers in developing a new beer. The idea was, rather than develop and launch a new product no one wants, why not just ask...
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A Chicken in Every Port: A Chinese Import-Export Business
In 2006, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) submitted a list of regulations to the White House aimed at helping China get into the U.S. chicken market by certifying Chinese facilities...
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Firm Sporting Square Credit Card Reader Nabs $6 Billion Valuation
Square Inc., which makes small, square-shaped credit-card readers, just closed a round of venture financing for $150 million, according to the New York Times’ Bits blog, raising the company’s value to...
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China Contributes the Most to Global Growth,IMF Says
China has overtaken the U.S. as the world’s largest economy, but only when it comes to purchasing power. The International Monetary Fund (IMF), which measures countries in terms of market exchange...
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Putting an End to Creepy Business Speak
We have the easiest time telling the people close to us why our company is unique, why our work is amazing, and why more people should know about all the insanely cool things we’re doing. But when we...
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Hong Kong Anti-Protest Group Tear Down Barricades
HONG KONG (Reuters) – Hundreds of people tore down protest barriers in the heart of Hong Kong’s business district on Monday, scuffling with pro-democracy demonstrators who have occupied the streets...
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Keeping Tabs on Your Campany’s Repeat Customers
Customer loyalty is the holy grail of business. No wonder, then, that with new technology, programs designed to retain customers and encourage repeat buying have exploded around the world in recent...
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10 Firms Hiring Like Crazy in October (And They’re Mostly Midmarket)
If a career change is on your mind, we know it’s not the easiest thing in the world to find a company you can feel at home at—which is why The Muse is here to help! We’ve rounded up some great...
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Apple Pay is Great, at Stores That Accept It
When Apple Pay launched Monday, my editors decided I needed to go shopping. I didn’t have to be asked twice. In fact, I felt like a teenager set loose in a mall with a parent’s credit card. Now I just...
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Do Team Games for Employees Really Improve Productivity?
Last April, two dozen executives inside the Federal Reserve’s Philadelphia branch faced an unusual challenge. The problem did not involve risky mortgages or undercapitalized banks but foam noodles,...
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Overthrowing Amazon: How the Mighty Stumbles
Hegemony never lasts in technology. The day the first pundit calls a tech superpower a dangerous monopoly, start looking for whatever is coming to overthrow it. This seems to be where we are with...
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Obamacare Case Heads to Supreme Court
(Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Friday to hear a legal challenge to a key part of the Obamacare health law that, if successful, would limit the availability of federal health insurance...
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Zuckerberg Initiates Weekly Q&A With the Public
Every week for the past seven or eight years, Facebook has had internal question-and-answer sessions in which employees can pose questions to CEO Mark Zuckerberg on topics ranging from the social...
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Facebook Narrows its Lens on the Office
Using Facebook at work is about to become a lot more socially acceptable. The tech giant is secretly building a website called Facebook at Work, unidentified sources told the Financial Times. The site...
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Inflation Advancing But Economy Appears Strong
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Underlying inflation pressures rose in October, even as falling gasoline prices kept overall U.S. consumer prices in check, bolstering expectations of a mid-2015 interest rate...
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A Somewhat Edgy China Signals More Interest Rate Cuts
BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s leadership and central bank are ready to cut interest rates again and also loosen lending restrictions, concerned that falling prices could trigger a surge in debt...
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Is Visa Anti-Competitive? Debit Card Business Under Scrutiny:
Sterne Agee analysts pointed out that the declining prices in debit transactions are contrary to the anti-competitive claims of Discover against Visa Discover Financial Services ( NYSE:DFS) through...
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Canadian Firms Lack Financial Muscle to Combat Cyberattacks
Canadian companies seen lacking financial muscle to guard against cyberattacks Canada’s strict privacy legislation – and the required data checks and balances – helps businesses boost their defences...
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Why You Have More Control Over Your Next Career Move
3 Research-Backed Career Trends to Embrace in 2015 There’s a change happening in the career realm, and it’s a good one. More people are getting it. They are embracing the fact that their futures,...
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CFO Renée Hornbaker Arms Stream Energy With a Dynamic Monthly Forecast
What’s it like to be CFO of a $7 billion energy firm that’s grown largely by word of mouth? Join us as Renée shares her CFO mind-set and quickly advances a 21st Century finance function inside a...
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