The deliberations over the Emancipation Proclamation built the leadership backbone of Abraham Lincoln, and offer huge lessons for modern executives.
A 2012 re-enactment of the Battle of Shiloh as captured by a pinhole camera in Michie, Tenn. Such a camera has no lens, viewfinder or shutter — just a pinhole at the front and film at the back. Images can be soft and require long exposures.
The Federal Reserve has left little doubt about its plans, but inside the central bank, debate is moving from whether the Fed should do more to stimulate the economy to when it should start doing less.
Republic Wireless keeps its cellphone service prices low via an interesting hybrid: it uses Wi-Fi when customers are in a Wi-Fi area and a 3G network when they are not.
Big Data is pushing into the humanities, as evidenced by new, illuminating computer analyses of literary history.
Some employers aren’t posting jobs these days, choosing instead to search online for the right candidate. So job seekers may need to ask themselves “How searchable am I?”
The head of First Wind, a wind power company, says he has learned more from a couple of negative experiences in his career than from the successes.
The Haggler goes to bat for a bank customer run ragged by its phone system.
Mary Jo White, the new head of the Securities and Exchange Commission, has a chance to scuttle the practice of letting companies settle cases without admitting fault.
Victoria Ransom, the chief executive of Wildfire, which provides social media marketing software, says supervisors shouldn’t expect new hires to automatically know the company’s values.
Despite noises about a turning point in the housing market, the data doesn’t suggest any particular path for future prices.
In good times and bad, Apple’s stock has often gone its own way. But shares of I.B.M., whose market value isn’t as high, still appear to have more influence on the overall market.
Japan said it would inject trillions of yen by buying government bonds, the percentage of American workers in labor unions fell sharply and President Obama nominated two former prosecutors to financial regulatory posts.
With President Obama declaring climate change a part of his second-term agenda, all eyes are on the United States on the matter of airlines’ carbon emissions.
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