Recent Articles

• Grocery stores changing tactics to beat the competition

  Bambi Majumdar Food & Beverage

  Three decades ago, bigger grocery and supermarket brands were swallowing up their smaller counterparts and squashing competition in the age-old way of business tactics. But grocery stores are no longer competing with just each other; now they must deal with their online counterparts as well.

• Searching for the greatest gift

  Debra Josephson Abrams Education

  Behaving as UFC contestants, millions of Americans savagely attack and brutalize each other on Black Friday as they make their best efforts to snatch, grab and seize the gifts they demand for themselves and those on their Christmas lists. Along with the daily overdose of violence that envelops us — whether in our home, our neighborhood, our city, our country, or in homes, neighborhoods, cities and countries far away — at the "holidays," we see extra shots of the worst of what we arrogantly call "humanity," by way of 24/7 news and online video sharing sites.

• Airlines to perform a terminal dance at LAX

  Matt Falcus Transportation Technology & Automotive

  ​Los Angeles Airport (LAX) is hoping its resident airlines can pull off a major logistical effort without causing chaos for passengers over one weekend in May when a planned switch takes place. In all, 28 separate airlines will relocate from their current terminals at LAX to a new set of gates as the airport continues its modernization process.

• Pace of interior design employment slows

  Michael J. Berens Interior Design, Furnishings & Fixtures

  Following an unprecedented spike in new hires in 2015, the pace of interior design employment returned to a more normal annual growth rate in 2016, at just under 4 percent. Although well below the nearly 12 percent jump from the year before, the addition of 2,110 new jobs ranks as the second-best year for designers since the onset of the last recession, when employers cut positions drastically. The rate of growth was similar to that of U.S. employment overall, which fell to 4.7 percent in December.

• Why is branding important for churches?

  Carol Brown Religious Community

  You've probably heard a lot about the importance of church branding, and maybe you've also seen the pushback on it. If you're one of those people who don't think it's important — or if you don't really know what it is — I hope you'll keep reading.

• When is training time for nonexempt employees compensable?

  D. Albert Brannen Business Management, Services & Risk Management

  Employers train employees in countless ways to perform better and for various legal compliance reasons. Such training can be in a one-time session in-house, a series of commercial courses or more formal classes at the local college. Before you schedule your next training session, you should consider that the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) may require you to pay nonexempt employees for time (including possibly overtime) spent in the training session.

• The ultimate connection: Word of mouth

  Jessica Taylor Marketing

  How do customers find out about your business? According to a recent survey, 85 percent of small businesses stated that it's by word of mouth (WOM). Since small businesses are more about the personalized approach, they are able to connect with customers instilling trust and loyalty, which ultimately passes onto friends. WOM isn't something you can purchase, but it's also not difficult to get. It's truly based on giving your customers an incredible experience that makes them want to come back for more.

• Evaluating the board’s performance

  Shawna Strickland and Bob Harris Association Management

  The last item on the board's agenda read, "Board Evaluation." The last page in the board packet was a self-evaluation — sort of a report card for the board. Two of the directors noticed the items with curiosity. One said, "They can't evaluate us, we are all volunteers."

• How to tell patients about the link between gingivitis and diabetes

  Carolina Pickens Oral & Dental Healthcare

  The American Diabetes Association reports that a whopping 30 million Americans have diabetes. Unfortunately, this condition comes with many extensive complications that aren't limited to the medical field. Many reports have shown a prevalent connection between diabetes in patients and early to advanced stages of gingivitis.

• The next frontier: Mining the deep sea

  Stefanie Heerwig Natural Resources

  As we continue consuming metals and rare earths at the same speed as today, we could run out of existing resources 20 years' time, according to an estimate of current resources and reserves worldwide. Rare earths are the basis for state-of-the-art renewable technology like solar panels. And replacing oil, gas and coal with existing renewable energy technology would require the extraction of rare earths to increase by 700 percent over the next 25 years, according to the latest MIT research.

Page 664 of 1304 pages
‹ First  < 662 663 664 665 666 >  Last ›