Loners, geeks or jocks? A recent study provides insight into the personality types of small-business owners.

Ever wondered about the kinds of people who become entrepreneurs? In a recent survey, 43 percent of entrepreneurs admit they were “loners” [ … ]

Mixing cocktails and pregnant employees; cost-effective perks.

Worker Rights

Q I met my team in a hotel bar during a medical industry conference and a pregnant staffer ordered a martini. My other staffers were uncomfortable, and potential clients may have be [ … ]

Grand Canyon University features classes taught by full-time business owners, not academics.

For undergraduates who complain that college doesn't teach them anything about the real world, a new four-year school in Arizona seeks to deliver business lesso [ … ]

The first-ever educational event is designed to promote business ownership among high-school and college students.

When he was nine years old, Omar Faruk immigrated to the United States from Bangladesh with nine brothers and sisters, little money, [ … ]

A growing number of employees are enrolling in such programs, according to a new study.

Citing excessive workload and poor promotion policies, younger employees are the most dissatisfied.

Employee dissatisfaction is at an all-time high, according to a national survey released Monday by the Conference Board, a New York-based private research gro [ … ]

The federal government also fails to enforce workers' rights, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Guest workers in the United States are trapped in low-wage jobs where they risk injury without health coverage and often live in squalid conditions, a [ … ]

In November 2005, we wrote about the White Stone Group, a Knoxville, Tennessee, firm whose health insurance costs soared after a worker had quintuplets.

The Problem Premiums at White Stone had been going up for years. But nothing prepared CEO Guille Cruze fo [ … ]