Archive for November 30th, 2007
New Options in Small Business Health Insurance
WSJ: Small-business owners who concluded a few years ago they couldn’t afford health insurance for their workers may want to take another look. Insurers are offering more varied plans that include less-expensive options. Nonprofit groups and legislators have paved the way for small companies to band together in purchasing cooperatives to get lower rates. A [...]
According to the Wall Street Journal, the US government is going to begin offering army recruits startup cash: The Army has been enlisting youths for decades by promising them money for college. Starting in January, it will try out a different sort of pitch in selected cities: offering up to $40,000 toward the purchase of [...]
NY Times: There is a rising reaction against management theory, according to The Economist. A new book by the management expert Gary Hamel, “The Future of Management,” notes that several well-known executives of hot companies — among them, Sergey Brin and Larry Page of Google and John P. Mackey of Whole Foods Market — did [...]
