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CORRECTION APPENDED Harry Levinson, a psychologist who helped change corporate America's thinking about the workplace by demonstrating a link between job conditions and emotional health -- a progressive notion when [...]

MOST marketers readily concede it: getting rid of direct mail -- or junk mail, as environmentalists and most recipients call it -- would save a lot of trees. But they […]

CERTAINLY A. G. Lafley had his work cut out for him when he became Procter & Gamble's chief executive eight years ago. Profits were lackluster and the stock was way […]

This just in from Climate Counts, the nonprofit group that scores consumer products companies on their green track records: consumer companies are getting greener, but they are still a pretty […]

CORRECTION APPENDED Aflac on Monday became the first publicly traded American company to give shareholders a vote on top management's compensation -- or, in governance parlance, a say on pay. [...]

Steven J. Sasson, an electrical engineer who invented the first digital camera at Eastman Kodak in the 1970s, remembers well management's dismay at his feat. 'My prototype was big as […]

EDWARD M. HOUGHTON, a human resources executive at Pitney Bowes, was sick of traffic jams and unpredictable hours. Bina Kozak, who matches patients to cardiologists at a Scripps Health clinic […]

For seven lean years, Wall Street has given General Electric and its chief executive, Jeffrey R. Immelt, the benefit of the doubt. Even as shares of this quintessential blue chip […]

WASN'T 2008 supposed to be the year of shareholder victory on the executive compensation front? After all, tighter disclosure rules kicked in last year, and -- the theory went -- […]

TWO years ago, Boston Common Asset Management asked Aflac to give investors a chance to weigh in on top management's compensation. Daniel P. Amos, Aflac's chairman and chief executive, was […]

GREEN is green has become a mantra of environmentalists and, increasingly, corporate chiefs. Between money saved by energy efficiency and money made from selling environmentally sound products, they say, going [...]

In July, a team of 8 to 10 I.B.M. employees will travel to Ghana to help tiny businesses make their operations more professional. Another team will help entrepreneurs seek microloans […]

Companies have long been willing to pay a lot of money to attach their names to prominent places. The future home of the New York Mets in Queens will be […]

Jeffrey R. Immelt, the chief executive of General Electric, is clearly hoping that Marshall McLuhan was right and that the medium is the message. Over the last few years Mr. […]

SO, how do you say 'Imagination at Work' in Chinese? Actually, that is easy enough to answer -- just check the Chinese characters next to the General Electric logo in […]

As soon as Jeffrey R. Immelt, General Electric's chairman, became chief executive in 2001, his foreign-based managers began pressing him to move some major operations overseas. 'They'd say, 'G.E. will […]

Kodak Is Bullish On Newspapers It seemed counterintuitive when Philip J. Faraci, Eastman Kodak's president, said at a meeting with analysts last week that the global newspaper industry was a […]

The Loneliness of Being AOL There was a lot of optimism about AOL from Jeff Bewkes on his first conference call as chief executive of Time Warner last week, probably […]

EVERYONE is all for waste management, the concept. Who could be against getting a handle on the worsening garbage stream? But waste management, the industry? That's a different story. A […]

SOME 26 years ago, when Robert Pai joined Sylvania's fluorescent technology laboratories, he and his fellow researchers did not think much about compact fluorescents. They were more interested in solving […]

The General Electric Company said Friday that its fourth-quarter profit rose 4 percent as surging overseas sales more than offset the fallout from domestic woes. The company also reaffirmed its […]

TERESON DUPUY thinks reusable diapers are having their back-to-the-future moment. Sure, she knows that lots of parents (indeed, most of them) would rather toss dirty nappies than wash them. But […]

The way the Environmental Protection Agency sees it, one discarded cellphone is like one vote: on its own, it cannot do much harm or good, but the cumulative effect can […]

STILL think copier when you hear the name Xerox? The company knows that you do. And it is sick of it. After all, Xerox doesn't even make standalone copiers anymore. […]

Bigger is better, right? Not so fast. Corporate America appears to have had second thoughts in 2007. Frank S. Blake, who replaced Robert L. Nardelli as chief executive of Home […]

BACK in 1934, when the National Biscuit Company introduced a line of buttery little crackers, it named them 'Ritz' to mean quality and class, the type of snack a guest […]

It is a basic tenet of university research: Economists conduct joint studies, chemists join forces in the laboratory, political scientists share ideas about other cultures -- but rarely do the […]

The new energy bill signed this week makes it official. When 2012 hits, stores can no longer sell the cheap but inefficient incandescent light bulbs that are fixtures in most […]

To hear Jeffrey R. Immelt, General Electric's chief executive, tell it, his company is having a great 2007 and faces a very nice 2008. Those were the main thrusts of […]

Officially, Wal-Mart Stores released a 'comprehensive report of its sustainability efforts' yesterday. But the much-anticipated document could more accurately be described as a citizenship report. The report did provide many […]

THEY call it the Map of Africa. It is a cute name for an acute problem: the stains that African girls often endure when they are menstruating and the rags […]

Municipal water systems are aging. Environmentalists are castigating the makers of bottled water -- and the people who buy it -- for defiling the environment with plastic. All told, it […]

PSYCHOLOGISTS and Wall Street traders have long known it: people and markets act on perception, whether it clashes with reality or not. Which means that sellers of cold foods may […]