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Investors looking to hit it big in 2010 may want to consider a new study by three BYU finance professors.
How Exchange Rates Affect Business and You
What do you do when your neighbor or friend is out of work? It can be difficult to bring up the subject because there’s often a great deal of stress and emotion attached to the issue.
When I arrived at BYU eight years ago, I was in my new office, organizing books and filing papers, when I received a telephone call informing me that there had been a glitch in payroll processing, and I would not be receiving a paycheck during the first two months of my employment. I said, “Thank you,” hung up the phone, and started thinking about how to break this news to my wife, Jan. 
Finding a job may be more of a numbers game than you ever thought.
The word stress was coined only eighty years ago, yet it is a feeling most people experience every day.
If you are like most people, getting up and out the door on time can be nothing short of a miracle.
A BYU study shows that any entrepreneur looking for the best ROI might be better served by a combination of two strategies.
What does space exploration have to do with business strategy? More than you'd think.
So you went to business school. But it’s been a few years . . . And perhaps some of the recent economic news has left you a little befuddled. We’ve unscrambled some particularly tricky terms that will put you back at the head of the class.
How the French Put U.S. Adoption of International Accounting Standards on the Rocks. 
 Getting fit may be more about numbers than you ever thought. But don’t worry.
Employees who love their company and hustle to please their bosses can lead to a higher likelihood of unethical behavior.
Food. We’re obsessed with it and not just because it meets our daily caloric needs. It can be tempting, captivating, and even adventurous. In fact, culinary novelties are popping up everywhere.
Feeling a little nickel-and-dimed lately? Follow these cost-cutting tips, and you’ll find yourself keeping more and pungling less.
It may be time to reset your browser’s toolbar. With nearly 300 million sites on the web (and counting), finding the best resources online can be a little paralyzing—that’s why we’re here. You might not be plugged into the following cool and innovative sites, but you should be.
Your credit score is a three-digit number with a large impact. Here’s how to keep your number looking smart and how to understand what goes into calculating your score.
What do you do when your company is comfortably selling a product, and then suddenly a competitor offers a similar one for free?
BYU Professor Jeff Dyer's new book helped Forbes to rank the world's most innovative companies.
It’s an often thankless job with bad hours and few days off. Running a home and keeping a family going may not require a board of directors, but that doesn’t mean it’s not demanding.
Think of it as the barcode’s hip, tech-savvy cousin. QR (quick response) codes allow users to scan a black-and-white box with their smartphones and instantly link to data, videos, music, or a bevy of other knowledge.
A new study finds persuasive packaging can cause consumers to use less of a product once they take it home.
All students, at some point, face exam questions that baffle, mystify, or simply confound them. As bright and good-looking as Marriott School students are, we’ve discovered they are no exception. This is where creativity takes flight.
Some babies are born with the double helixes that turn into blue eyes and heads of light, curly hair. Most people think that innovators are born with special genes, like those that determine physical features, that enable them to be innovators an endowment you either have or you don’t.