Two new studies suggest a correlation between obesity and Medicare costs. Is it worth paying people to lose weight?

The current downturn has left many companies scrambling to manage workplace issues -- ranging from how to avoid a brain drain to how they can provide better value to customers and clients. Employees, for their part, face the challenges that

Creating an international company that sells shoes made in Africa has confronted Tal Dehtiar with a series of unexpected challenges. Among them: the color blue. "The only colors the factories are used to working with are black and brown," said

Real estate is showing some early signs of recovery as an attractive investment, at least compared to some other opportunities like corporate debt. But capital markets must open further to revive normal deal flows, said panelists at the recent Zell

A decade ago, movie fans who wanted to forgo paying theater admission waited an average of five months before they could watch a film in their own living rooms. Today, the window between theatrical releases and distribution via other channels

Multinational corporations have a lot of good things going for them. They have built up a rich store of knowledge over the years, allowing their subsidiaries to share ideas and best practices in ways that smaller companies can only dream

As CEO of the venerable insurer Lloyd's of London, Richard Ward oversees $33 billion in premiums each year, underwriting such valuables as TV star Ugly Betty's smile, soccer player David Beckham's knees and singer Celine Dion's vocal cords. It's all

For three decades, microfinance institutions have given out small loans to the world's poor -- mostly women -- and amassed thousands of case studies showing that the loans help alleviate poverty, improve health, increase education and promote women's empowerment. Skeptics,

If the past month is any indicator, acquisitions are not only thawing but heating up. In October, Comcast made a bid to merge its operations with NBC Universal to create a cable programming giant. In early November, Kraft Foods announced

In China, banks are told to meet minimum capital requirements -- or else. The crackdown comes amid record lending levels are that are helping to overheat the real estate market.

India is expected to help lead the world out of recession. But will a growing number of strikes -- some leading to murderous violence, impede its industrial progress?

Will a growing real estate bubble in China result in the pop heard 'round the world?

Would wider access to high-speed Internet and other telecommunications services boost the economy? The FCC aims to find out.

Retailers should not lose sleep over whether to use the term "Christmas" or "holiday" in their marketing efforts, says a Wharton marketing professor.

A new study finds a "worst-case" scenario for the implementation of technology for sharing medical records: no savings and no improvement in quality of care.

New leadership at GM aims to diminish the car maker's bureaucracy and acknowledge its flaws.

A Joss Whedon science fiction series has been cancelled by Fox, but a quiet viral marketing campaign suggests a second life for the program. Whedon, whose ideas for monetizing entertainment content on the web are being closely watched in Hollywood,

To save its other units, Motorola may walk away from the quickly evolving set-top box business.

The commercial real estate market is bad and getting worse, and it could tie up small bank assets that would otherwise help small businesses grow and create jobs.

Marc Rowan, founding partner of Apollo Management, one of the world's largest private equity investment firms, makes it sound simple: Stick to the fundamentals -- that is, buy a good business at a low price -- and you ultimately will