By George Avalos Bay Area News Group Article Launched:Â 10/17/2008 Mervyn’s LLC announced today that it will cease operations and hold going out of business sales at all of its stores, making the bankrupt retailer the latest company to succumb to… Continue Reading
By Jacob Leibenluft Posted Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2008 This fall, I bought a share in a CSA [“community-supported agriculture,” a kind of farm co-op] for a few hundred bucks. Every week, I get a box of whatever produce the local… Continue Reading
By Mark Svenvold October 13, 2008 “At current national rates of oil consumption,” he told me, “the amount of oil we’ve found should last about an hour and a half.” STILLWATER, OKLA. (Fortune Small Business) — The drilling rig rose… Continue Reading
By Anne Fisher, senior writer October 10, 2008: 9:40 AM ET (Fortune) — Not long ago, in a workshop with a group of senior executives, coach Lois Frankel tried a little experiment. “You look like a pretty powerful person,” she… Continue Reading
Robert Bovarnick 10.08.08 Legal fees are a cost of doing business. While the Web has made it easy to do some of the very mundane work on your own (say, filing for incorporation or ginning up a bare-bones operating contract),… Continue Reading
By David Van Biema Friday, Oct. 03, 2008 Has the so-called Prosperity Gospel turned its followers into some of the most willing participants — and hence, victims — of the current financial crisis? That’s what a scholar of the fast-growing… Continue Reading
08.01.08 Round two of the 2008 Forbes.com Boost Your Business competition is drawing to a close. On the line: a $100,000 grand prize. Only five of 20 semifinalists will survive to compete in the grueling final round, where they will… Continue Reading
“The finances of this are incredibly intricate and intertwined … There’s no way to analyze it from far away and figure out what’s going on.” – Dr. David Johnson, Shasta Regional Medical Center board president, as quoted in the Record… Continue Reading
By Jennifer Openshaw Last update: 8:28 p.m. EDT Sept. 22, 2008 NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — As the Lehman saga reminds us, it doesn’t take much bad news these days to sack your employer. When you pick up bad signals on… Continue Reading
Phyllis Berman 09.18.08 Vita-Mix has had a lock on the upscale blender market for more than half a century. Then a brash competitor discovered YouTube. Since the Great Depression family-owned Vita-Mix Corp. has sold snazzy, expensive food blenders to juice… Continue Reading
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