Harvard University professor Cass Sunstein explores the nature of culture markets, popularity, and fame—who wants it, who gets it, and how.
Wells Fargo & Co was accused in a lawsuit filed on Tuesday of mismanaging its employee health insurance plan and forcing tens of thousands of U.S. employees to overpay for prescription drugs.
The proposed class action filed in Minnesota federal…
The income gap between white and Black young adults was narrower for millenials than for Generation X, according to a new study that also found the chasm between white people born to wealthy and poor parents widened between the generations.By age 27, …
Three questions to help you decide when and how to correct the course.
The remote work era has given employees more flexibility. For some, that means taking on a second job (and maybe a third and fourth, too).
These workers identify as “overemployed,” taking on multiple full-time jobs at a time to boost their ne…
Searching for the right job online can be like driving down a highway littered with speed bumps. You can forget about putting the pedal to the metal. Instead, it’s a journey fraught with abrupt, gear-grinding deceleration, whether that entails customi…
The modern workforce includes baby boomers, generation X, millennials, and Gen Zers. And it can often feel as if each group is speaking a different language. While workplaces used to rely on formal office jargon, today, casual chat is just as co…
When I was a kid, my father owned a coffee shop. For his 10 or so employees, my Dad had a simple pay philosophy: If he liked someone, he paid them more.
Of course, that’s not how major corporations pay people—in theory, anyway. Most corporations ha…
With the recent announcement that Vice President Kamala Harris is the presumptive 2024 Democratic presidential nominee, the “first-naming” of her has intensified. Vice President Harris is frequently called “Kamala” when her male opponents are addresse…
We hear it all the time: A person in a position of authority or power—often in the C-suite—refers to a talented team member as a future leader. While meant as a compliment, this language has negative “unintended consequences,” as Robert Merton describ…
