• Is your company innovating? A Whole Foods case study.

    Is your company innovating? A Whole Foods case study.

    The "lone genius" often gets the credit for big ideas, but real-world innovation is a team sport.
  • Stores across country board up fearing election-related chaos

    Stores across country board up fearing election-related chaos

    Businesses nationwide are fortifying themselves for Election Day riots. Shops in San Francisco, Beverly Hills, Washington, DC, Atlantic City, Chicago, Boston, Indianapolis and Denver have already
  • Leadership: Being paranoid is not enough to survive

    Leadership: Being paranoid is not enough to survive

    Most recent studies on managerial transitions converge on an alarming finding. With the resurgence of the pandemic and increasing uncertainty, organizations are increasingly adopting stand-still attitudes, favoring familiar faces and strategies, rather than disruptive bets. Whether at the private sector level, where there is a decline in leadership changes, or at the public level, where most leaders should be renewed in their positions and the same coalitions renewed in the upcoming elections. Are we doomed to 'change everything so that nothing changes' in this particular context?
  • Nearly 60 percent of COVID-19 business closures are permanent: report

    Nearly 60 percent of COVID-19 business closures are permanent: report

    Nearly 60 percent of businesses that closed nationwide during the COVID-19 pandemic are never reopening again, according to a report. The vast majority of those businesses are restaurants and gift stores, according to Yelp’s Local Economic Impact Report, a monthly survey of business listings. As of Aug. 31, 163,735 businesses were listed as closed, with …
  • Feds charge 57 with defrauding COVID-19 relief loan program

    Feds charge 57 with defrauding COVID-19 relief loan program

    Federal law enforcement authorities have charged 57 people with stealing $175 million from an aid program meant to help small businesses weather pandemic lockdowns, officials said on Thursday, adding that they are eyeing hundreds more suspected cases of fraud. Officials said they have identified 500 individuals who may have defrauded the $660 billion Paycheck Protection …
  • Kyle Richards and Dorit Kemsley’s friendship is at odds after NYFW disses

    Kyle Richards and Dorit Kemsley’s friendship is at odds after NYFW disses

    The “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” didn’t leave their fierceness on the catwalk. Dorit Kemsley and Kyle Richards got into a heated argument over Kemsley’s comments regarding Richards’ newest fashion venture in a sneak preview of Wednesday night’s episode of “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” reunion exclusively obtained by Page Six. While the entire …
  • COVID-19 relief loans reportedly went to dozens of ineligible businesses

    COVID-19 relief loans reportedly went to dozens of ineligible businesses

    Dozens of businesses raked in at least $20 million in federal coronavirus relief loans despite appearing ineligible to receive them, a new report says. More than 75 firms got Paycheck Protection Program loans worth at least $150,000 even though they didn’t exist before the spring or failed to meet other criteria for the program, the …
  • Justice Department to File Antitrust Charges against Google

    Justice Department to File Antitrust Charges against Google

    The Justice Department is reportedly planning to bring antitrust charges against Google in the coming weeks after Attorney General William Barr decided to move forward over the objections of DOJ lawyers who say they need more preparation time to prosecute the massive technology company. The DOJ’s antitrust division opened its probe into Google last summer …
  • COVID threatens gains for NYC’s minority businesses, study says

    COVID threatens gains for NYC’s minority businesses, study says

    Business was booming for New York City’s merchants of color before the coronavirus pandemic pushed many to the brink of collapse, a new report says. The Big Apple was home to 64,514 minority-owned businesses — or 31.4 percent of all firms citywide — in 2017, up 7.4 percent from about 60,000 in 2012, according to …
  • Biden Vows ‘No New Taxes’ on Individuals Making Under $400,000, Will Increase Taxes On Business Making ‘Excessive’ Profit

    Biden Vows ‘No New Taxes’ on Individuals Making Under $400,000, Will Increase Taxes On Business Making ‘Excessive’ Profit

    Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has said as president he would raise taxes for anybody making over $400,000 a year, while “no new taxes” would be raised for anyone making under that figure, saying everyone should pay “their fair share.” In a joint interview with running mate Senator Kamala Harris (D., Calif.) on ABC’s 20/20 …