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NEWS ABOUT: corporate culture

corporate culture stories: 14 news summaries
OPINION

 Good CEOs Are Boring: Brooks 


May 19, 09 10:07 AM CDT
(Newser) - Recent studies have yielded a good picture of the ideal CEO, and the life of the party he ain’t, writes David Brooks in the New York Times. Traits like empathy, good communication skills, and team-building aren’t very important. Flamboyant visionaries rarely work out. No, those who often thrive... More »

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CEO • corporate culture • corporate governance • David Brooks • Obama administration • politicians

OPINION

 All Those Years 
 We Were Racing 
 to Nowhere 
 

Investors Wasted 12 Years

Apr 9, 09 11:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - For years, denizens of Wall Street have been living a frantic existence, sleeping, eating and otherwise living at the office, “because whatever it is that had to happen had to happen immediately, or yesterday,” writes Elizabeth Wurtzel in the Wall Street Journal. And what did this feverish... More »

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Wall Street • mergers and acquisitions • corporate culture • corporate law firms • law firm • financial crisis

 Inauguration Becomes
 De Facto Holiday

Experts say celebrations will boost worker morale

Jan 19, 09 3:12 AM CST
(Newser) - Employers nationwide are bracing for a new slowdown, but they're excited about this one, reports USA Today. Thousands of workers nationwide are expected to take the day off tomorrow to watch the inauguration—or watch with co-workers in office parties. Companies are wise to grant the time off, since the... More »

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Barack Obama • corporate culture • Americans • inauguration • President Obama • Inauguration Day • employees

 FDIC's Bair Tops 
 Women to Watch List 

Corporate world remains male dominated, but that, too, is changing

Nov 10, 08 9:15 AM CST
(Newser) - While two of Wall Street's top women—Morgan Stanley’s Zoe Cruz and Citigroup’s Sallie Krawcheck—fell from grace this year, the global economic storm has pushed several others, like the FDIC’s Sheila Bair and Bank of America’s Barbara Desoer to the top of the Wall Street ... More »

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Hillary Clinton • corporate culture • Indra Nooyi • corporate execs • Sheila Bair

Japan Struggles with Slacker Salarymen

Anti-ambitious young Japanese opt out of the career fast track

Nov 1, 08 9:17 AM CDT
(Newser) - A new generation of Japanese salarymen is dropping out of the competition for raises, promotions, and managerial opportunities, the Wall Street Journal reports. Older Japanese are shocked at the attitudes of these ambition-shunning young workers who openly decline to climb the corporate ladder and switch jobs in pursuit of less-demanding... More »

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Japan • corporate culture • promotion • office workers • Japanese economy • corporate jobs

Bored at Work? Site Disguises Classic Lit

Readatwork.com lets you fool the boss

May 30, 08 2:08 PM CDT
(Newser) - Business world got you down? Want to escape into a classic poem or short story? The New Zealand Book Council has made a website to help you: ReadatWork.com. The site brings up a fake Windows desktop with folders and PowerPoint files, the Wall Street Journal reports. Click on them,... More »

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corporate culture • literature • reading • poetry • office • website • novel

ANALYSIS

Takeover Could Leave Anheuser A Bit Skunked

Bottom-line culture of Brazil's InBev not always a smooth pour

May 28, 08 4:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - Anheuser-Busch executives are surely examining the fate of Interbrew, the Belgian company swallowed in 2004 by InBev, the Brazilian juggernaut reportedly preparing to grab the iconic US brewer, the Wall Street Journal reports. InBev's locker-room, bottom-line-oriented corporate culture has quickly replaced beer-loving Belgians with Brazilian execs, a situation that would... More »

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Belgium • Brazil • corporate culture • Anheuser-Busch • InBev

 Corporate Bonding 2.0 

Seagate's $2M, week-long New Zealand odyssey goes above and beyond

May 21, 08 6:05 PM CDT
(Newser) - Company retreats are nothing new. And then, Fortune reports, there's Eco Seagate, a $2 million, week-long, life-changing challenge in New Zealand that some employees of the Northern California tech company trained months for. The trip, developed by CEO Bill Watkins, costs the company $2 million a year, and though the... More »

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corporate culture • New Zealand • team chemistry • team building • company bonding • corporate retreat • adventure racing • Seagate

 Why Gen Xers
 Hate Corporate Jobs 

10 reasons you won't find Xers in an executive suite

May 21, 08 9:04 AM CDT
(Newser) - Generation Xers don't seem to be clambering to the top of the corporate ladder in the numbers they should be—and many are turned off by corporate life altogether. BusinessWeek has 10 reasons why this might be so:
  1. Xers started their careers just as the economy went into its
... More »

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baby boomer • corporate culture • generation gap • Generation X • Generation Y • management

For Sale: Video Vault of Wal-Mart Inner Workings

Spurned by retailer, production company sells years of footage

Apr 9, 08 12:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - A tiny production company has decades of behind-the-scenes moments from Wal-Mart on film—and up for grabs. The chain hired Flagler Productions to film its inner workings for corporate events, but fired it two years ago, the Wall Street Journal reports. After Wal-Mart low-balled Flagler on the archive, it’s... More »

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retail • corporate culture • corporations • Wal-Mart

Wal-Mart Blog Lets Buyers Post Real Reviews

Some suppliers vexed, but site 'puts real personality out there'

Mar 3, 08 7:24 PM CST
(Newser) - Wal-Mart is letting its buyers blast or hail store products on a new blog, and do so freely—a shift for the once-strict corporate culture. Posts have so far panned Microsoft's Vista and a "Star Wars" movie, all while revealing favorite books, Bible quotes, and pets. "It puts... More »

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Internet • corporate culture • blog • chain stores • Wal-Mart

Why the CEO Talent Pool
Is So Small

As Citi, Merrill searches show, Wall Street is now a tough place to grow managers

Nov 5, 07 4:47 PM CST
(Newser) - With Citigroup and Merrill Lynch both suddenly searching for new CEOs, the Wall Street Journal looks at why the list of contenders for the top jobs at Wall Street's biggest firms is so short. Start with an earn-or-die corporate culture, which taints talented chief executives who fail to deliver in... More »

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Citigroup • subprime mortgages • corporate culture • Merrill Lynch • corporate governance • Charles Prince • Stan O'Neal • subprime crisis

Porn Seeps
Into Workplace
Via Laptops
and Phones

Employers block sites
but problem persists

Oct 18, 07 2:41 PM CDT
(Newser) - It's been a decade since the advent of online pornography started driving down productivity in offices, but new portable technologies have made it easier than ever to beat firewalls and check out naughty pictures on the job. USA Today writes that while 65% of American companies use porn-blocking software, it's... More »

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adult website • pornography • corporate culture

Happy Hour Irks Korean Women

South Korean female professionals say no to
a corporate culture of binge drinking

Jun 10, 07 11:07 AM CDT
(Newser) - South Korean women are trying to put a lid on company-enforced binge drinking. As more women climb the corporate ladder, they're fighting back against the male-centric business culture that demands binging to get ahead, the New York Times reports. In a country where an estimated 90% of company events are... More »

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South Korea • alcohol • women • business • corporate culture • binge drinking

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