Mar 12th, 2010 · A bankruptcy court examiner is raising new questions about the actions of Lehman Bros. executives in the weeks before the firm filed for bankruptcy. In a 2,000-page report, the examiner alleges that Lehman's top managers manipulated the firm's balance sheet in a bid to stave off bankruptcy.
Mar 4th, 2010 · Elizabeth Farry, community relations manager for the Girl Scout Council of Colonial Coast, talks about using Girl Scout Cookies as ingredients in other recipes. Farry has tried many of the recipes on the Girl Scouts' Web site, including fried caramel delights, thin mint brownies and do-si-dos peanut Thai chicken.
Mar 3rd, 2010 · The Federal Reserve's Beige Book survey also shows that the recovery is managing to plod ahead but not at a strong enough pace to persuade companies to ramp up hiring.
Feb 26th, 2010 · With global threats like ocean warming and acidification, it's a tough time to be a coral. Marine ecologists John Bruno and Elizabeth Selig analyzed over 8,000 coral surveys from all over the world to see if local management through Marine Protected Areas had any positive effect on coral.
Feb 24th, 2010 · Once seen as a trailblazer whose management techniques, known as the Toyota Way, were a model for others, Toyota has since fallen on tough times — most recently, a recall of 8.5 million vehicles. Its deep problems are ushering a period of soul-searching in corporate Japan.
Feb 21st, 2010 · Stinson Seafood Company is America's last remaining sardine cannery — but it will soon go out of business. Strict federal limits on the amount of herring that can be caught is turning the business into a money losing venture. Host Guy Raz speaks to Stinson Seafood plant manager Peter Coleson of Prospect Harbor, Maine, about the company's history and demise.
Feb 15th, 2010 · Doug Fieger, leader of the power pop band The Knack who sang on the 1979 hit "My Sharona," died Sunday. He was 57. Fieger, a Detroit-area native, died at his home in Woodland Hills near Los Angeles after battling cancer, according to The Knack's manager, Jake Hooker.
Feb 15th, 2010 · With distractions constantly popping up in the workplace — from emails to telephone calls — it seems hard to get any work done. Also interfering with getting work done is trying to multi-task and memory. Renee Montagne talks to Financial Times columnist Lucy Kellaway about time management — or the lack there of — in her life and in the lives of workers everywhere.