Daniel Gross

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Investing in more efficient ways for consumers to use your core commodity as it faces disruptive competition can be a smart move.

The company that owns AOL and Yahoo is investing in content, software, and better online user experiences for marketers and consumers.

With roughly equal numbers of open jobs and unemployed people, companies are scrapping their talent plans and looking for workers wherever they can find them.

Building strategy at a newly spun-off company means moving quickly to reset expectations.

Global growth, social media, and technology are allowing professional basketball to engage fans in the arena and online.

Pursuit of innovation is crucial in the competitive global market.

Towns in the U.S. are scrambling to attract Amazon’s second headquarters, but there are more effective ways to put people to work. Fill the vacant jobs in your area.

When it comes to attracting big business and talent, smaller cities often lose out. But Woonsocket, R.I., is poised to break the cycle.

As the labor market continues to change, base pay is rising much more quickly for the bottom 20 percent of earners than for other workers.

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Space tourism and self-driving cars are exciting to ponder, but what about just making our current systems work better?

Algorithms and AI can help a company achieve massive scale, but they bring with them new risks.

The end of a run can feel earth-shattering, but economists and statisticians say it often means nothing.

When economic times are good, it’s easy to fall into the trap of expecting that growth will only continue.

To lure millennials in a tight market, home builders and other companies offer to help with debt.

Retailers are already announcing ambitious holiday hiring goals, with logistics and delivery firms likely to follow.

With skilled employees in high demand, some firms are extending their footprint into areas where workers are underutilized.

To address slow growth, multiplexes are replacing humans with machines, and popcorn and soda with gourmet treats.

While central banks puzzle about the lack of inflation, the e-commerce giant’s swift move to slash prices at Whole Foods shows how business is keeping prices down.

Despite the tight labor market, employees report they are willing to take increasingly smaller salaries.

It's not an open-and-shut case when it comes to optimal office design.

The closing of an energy hedge fund shows unique difficulties market veterans face when forecasting.

Employers are running out of creative ways to lure workers — and those coming out of prison are a largely untapped pool.

It’s too simplistic to view advances in automation as inspiring either sadness or euphoria.

In his new book, Daniel McGinn investigates the ways people prepare themselves to perform, taking us beyond the clichés of yoga poses, centering exercises, and nap rooms.

Although the transportation of people and goods has gotten cheaper, faster, and safer, low infrastructure investment has created frustrating bottlenecks.

The Fed can’t meet its inflation target, companies routinely miss earnings guidance, and schools fail to increase test scores. So what’s an institution to do?

With home costs skyrocketing in large metropolitan areas, companies that want to attract talent may have to get into the real-estate business.

Hiring people is often a last resort, even when an industry is growing.