Whether it's a bad performance review or an unexpected scolding from the boss, negative feedback hits workers squarely in the ego.It's never easy to hear that something is wrong with your work, your

Photo by Andrzej Grygiel/AFP/Getty Images “U2 were never dumb in business,” Bono told music journalist Michka Assayas in the book Bono. “We don’t

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But of all the embarrassing gaffes and product blunders, nothing quite compares to the string of incidents in 2007.The company's Fisher-Price brand out of China manufactured toys with 180 times the

How’s this for an investment? Imagine that you could turn $35 million into $175 million by simply writing a check. That’s what billionaire and philanthropist George Soros did earlier this

Watch out, corporate beancounters. Backdating is back.Or at least the Wall Street Journal thinks it is. The paper, which exposed the pervasive, illegal practice of rewarding executives with stock opt