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Wal-Mart’s New Chief People Officer Has His Work Cut Out for Him

Lawrence Jackson, a Harvard MBA who has been on Fortune ’s list of the most powerful bl...

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Staffing Companies are “Picking Up Steam”

Employers’ continued reluctance to add permanent jobs has helped the contingent-staffin...

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Dear Workforce How Do I Quantitatively Measure the Size of Our Workforce

The process is based on a series of ratios or relationships and presumes a relatively f...

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Making It Harder to Leave PeopleSoft

PeopleSoft has been facing the mother of all retention challenges. Oracle’s hostile tak...

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MBAs Don’t View Business as Very Clean

Women surveyed generally had more negative impressions of business ethics than men.

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Visa Cap Didn’t Last Long

Some members of Congress want to raise the limit; labor advocates do not.

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A Glass Slipper Quest for Disney

The board’s decision to fill Eisner’s job by June could open up the field.

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PeopleSoft Sends Conway Packing, But Wants to Keep its Front Line

All employees will collect at least 12 weeks’ salary and health benefits; previously it...