WASHINGTON, D.C. — Nearly one in three microbusiness owners (31%) depend more on a second job as their main source of personal income than they do on their business, according to the Sam’s Club/Gallup Microbusiness Tracker, a new quarterly tracking poll focusing on these smallest U.S. businesses. Small business is generally defined as firms with…
While the median household income in the U.S., according to the U.S. Census Bureau, is $53,046, several interns earn much more – $75,000+, assuming they were to work a full year. At a time when the income inequality debate continues, Glassdoor is revealing its report of the 25 Highest Paying Companies for Interns, to shed light…
All jobs aren’t created equal. In fact, some are simply better than the rest. U.S. News 100 Best Jobs of 2014 offer a mosaic of employment opportunity, good salary, manageable work-life balance and job security. Some careers offer just the right mix of these components – for instance, nearly 40 percent of our picks are…
SEATTLE, Dec. 19, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — Urbanspoon, the leading mobile restaurant discovery application, today released the Top Dining Trends of 2013, a look at the biggest dining trends of the year, including which popular foods and chefs will remain hot throughout 2014, and which will fade out as we as we turn to the new year. Based on…
Over a twelve-month period I have gathered data from 1,000 managers about their experiences at over 100 companies including Apple, Cisco, HP, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Novel, and Symantec. I wanted to understand the conditions under which people did the very best work of their careers. What I expected to find were examples of over managing,…
Is it possible to draw useful and actionable insights from the analysis of big data. This article tells the story of how the New York Times used data to begin to figure out what was driving traffic and not driving traffic to their website. Still, the visuals cannot tell the whole story. We see some…
Harvard Business Review has created a new test to track what makes you happy. Some of their research has uncovered that people are more happy went focused on the present then when they are “mind-wandering.” Find out more from HBR.org here: Want to Know What Really Makes You Happy? Try Tracking It – H. James Wilson…
A career in business starts with finding the MBA program that fits your needs. With U.S. News‘s rankings of the top business schools, narrow your search by location, tuition, school size, and test scores. Source: http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-business-schools/mba-rankings
Ask a CEO if they want to spend a pile of money on an analysis of their company’s story, and they’ll probably throw you out of their office. But if you tell them that you have a powerful insight that can help them raise the prices on all of their products, they might ask you…
This report is a prediction of disruptive technologies that will shape digital media and video delivery in the next 10 years. Produced by Rethink Research* in association with Rider Research, this 63 page report argues that the following six areas will be the key drivers of change for the next ten years: • TV will…
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