Workers feel too guilty to ditch
It was one of those first perfect days of spring -- 70-something and breezy -- the kind of day that people in northern climates wait months to enjoy. When it...
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Coach helps top execs get better
Nearly every night executive coach Marshall Goldsmith gets a call from a friend who asks him 24 questions. Their four-minute routine is no soul-searching exercise. Most of the questions are...
Diversity goals, bias can collide
Shortly after promoting Angela Miller to store manager in 1999, Walgreens assigned her to a new store in East St. Louis. She recalls her bosses telling her that the store...
U.S. suit: Walgreens biased
Walgreen Co. store manager Johnny Tucker claims it was an open secret among his African-American colleagues that their chances of being assigned to stores in white neighborhoods were slim. "It...
Generation Y a learning experience for firms
Daniel Lewis sat riveted to a computer screen while an animated figure marched into a virtual Cold Stone Creamery store and asked for ice cream. A tiny clock ticked away...
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Democrats with backing from labor have made raising the federal minimum wage a leading campaign theme while highlighting America's growing gap between rich and poor. They argue the nation's lowest...
Rise and fall of a celebrity chief executive
It's been nearly two years since Carly Fiorina was fired as Hewlett-Packard's chief executive, but her ability to spark controversy is undiminished. Her recently released memoir, "Tough Choices," unleashed a...
Workers’ care falls to state
Hundreds of thousands of low-wage workers in Illinois are enrolled in public health programs, adding hundreds of millions of dollars in medical costs to the state budget, according to a...
Change comes, people go
Motorola Inc. had high expectations for Theresa Metty when the company recruited her from IBM in 2000 for a key executive post. Motorola's once-proud cell phone division, bloated and ailing,...
Chicago touchdown nearing for United
Declining to fly away, United Airlines is in final negotiations on a deal to move its world headquarters from the suburbs to the former R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co. building...