The companies that oversaw and owned the vessel don't seem to want to foot the bill for the bridge reconstruction.
The construction industry is highly competitive, and Black women are severely underrepresented in it. These companies are working on shifting those numbers.
(USA Today) — About 15 million Americans are jobless. Many of the 139 million still working are, well,really working. Welder Dave Hoskins is averaging 10 to 20 hours a week in overtime this year and sometimes puts in seven 12-hour days in a row. The 37-year-old’s arduous schedule often stresses his marriage, especially because he […]
(Social Media Today) — In 2000 the Cluetrain Manifesto announced that “Markets wish to talk to companies”. This turned out to be a prophetic statement. Back then they already declared that markets consisted of conversations between people. They want (and can) communicate their opinions to companies. Companies that dispose of the talent to engage in a […]
(Read Write Web) —For the Enterprise 2.0 conference next week we will take a look specifically how the enterprise is adopting enterprise technologies. What services are companies using and why? Dachis Group is one of the fastest growing consulting organizations in the Enterprise 2.0 space. In the past several months they’ve made a series of acquisitions, […]
(Entrepreneurs.com) — “You know, you’re not a man,” Akio Morita, Sony‘s cofounder and former chairman of the board said to one of the firm’s senior female executives over dinner one night.”Nope, that’s absolutely true,” the woman, a single mother divorced with three children, replied. “But you’re not a woman.””Uh, OK. What am I?” “You’re in […]
(Bloomberg) — Josh Tyrangiel, editor of Bloomberg Businessweek, obviously works at a well-known, storied media brand. Or as some would rightly say, two brands combined. However, Tyrangiel understands that media brands can’t rest on their laurels in the digital age. “People don’t read brands out of obligation anymore,” he said. When asked about how legacy […]
(CNN.com) — One by one, the office Casanova dated several of his female co-workers at a small technology firm in California. His dating escapades turned public — and problematic — when he chronicled his opinions of the women on Facebook. He called one co-worker “a snore” before the updates spiraled into explicit comments. When his […]
(ABCNews.com) — A funny thing happened after the Securities and Exchange Commission tightened up the disclosure requirements on executive perks in 2006: Companies began to scale back dramatically on the personal jet flights, sports tickets and other benefits they used to slip top executives unnoticed. Las Vegas Sands Chairman Sheldon Adelson must not have gotten […]
(LA Times) — Companies are pulling in big profits, but that doesn’t mean they’ll be quick to hire. Investors have been buying stocks for nearly 14 months on the assumption that a rebounding economy will bring higher earnings and lower unemployment. Companies’ first-quarter profit reports have been upbeat, and the government released promising numbers showing […]
(Forbes.com) — It is no accident that companies within a particular industry move in lock-step with one another. Companies in a single industry are forever bound by the type of product or service that they provide, and they are constantly competing with one another for market share, consumer acceptance and technological leadership in their particular […]
(Daily Finance) Vudu. JooJoo. Boorah. It almost seems as if companies are just randomly picking names for their latest product — or (gasp) the company — out of a hat. But consumers would be surprised at how much actual thought (and money) go into the process of dubbing a tobacco maker Altria or an instant […]