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Employers Rethink Feedback Methods
Increased demand for feedback from younger workers is forcing some employers to rethink how they discuss employee performance.
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Firms Try to Shore Up Incentive Pay
Many companies are considering extra measures to reward employees as falling stock prices and profits pummel incentive-pay plans.
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And the Best Executive M.B.A. Programs In 2008 Are...
The Wall Street Journal's first survey of executive M.B.A. programs measures which schools do the best job of turning up-and-coming managers into full-fledged leaders. The result: A ranking of 26 schools world-wide that accounts for the rigor needed to build tomorrow's corporate leaders and C-suite executives.
Finding a Master Résumé Writer
Anxious applicants increasingly use professionals to assemble impressive-looking résumés, but the wrong service can waste time and money.
Laid Off? Rethink Goals
The gloomy economy is giving some twentysomethings their first taste of lay-offs. While job loss stings, it can also be an opportunity to reassess goals.
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Weekly Jobless Claims Drop
The number of U.S. workers filing new claims for unemployment benefits fell last week, as the effect of recent hurricanes faded. Meanwhile, wholesalers' inventories climbed.
Escaping a Reputation as a Novice
Do your colleagues still treat you like a newbie? Here's how to get the respect you deserve.
An Executive Downshifts From Fast Lane
After "pre-tiring," Susanne Lyons went from a busy marketing executive to a consultant with spare time to get the dog she always wanted.
The Next Bailout: Your Adult Children?
Families are weighing bailouts of their own, as recent grads are heavily leveraged with enormous debt and entering a world of scarce employment.
Allaying Workers' Fears in Tough Times
Employee-assistance providers are fielding more requests from managers struggling to maintain productivity and morale during the financial crisis.
Molding Minds for Business
Business-school professors teach undergraduate and graduate students about management, finance, marketing and other areas of business.
No Excuse for Wasting Time
When Your Friend Becomes Your Boss
A Planner Plumbs for a Niche
Careers Q&A: Avoiding a Merger Move
B-Schools Move to Assist Alums

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“If you've been laid off or are worried that you will be--and work in financial services/banking--what are you doing to cope?”
Fresh Data Show Economy Is Worsening
The weekly number of workers filing new claims for unemployment hit a fresh seven-year high on layoffs and continued hurricane effects. Meanwhile, factory orders plunged 4.0% in August.
Firms Cut Holes in Golden Parachutes
Double Eagle Petroleum's new employment agreements curtail a time-honored executive perquisite: no severance in cases of "poor performance."
Regulator Plans to Bar Big Severance
Exit packages for the deposed CEOs of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will be blocked by a federal regulator.
Schools Cancel GMAT Scores
Top U.S. business schools canceled the admissions-test scores of 84 applicants and students.
Weighing Options Before a Buyout
Voluntary buyout packages seem to be commonplace in Corporate America during troubled times. Here are few things to consider as you decide to accept or reject that offer.

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Job Search for Wall Street Pros
Recruiters say newly displaced finance professionals should consider other fields, or opportunities at smaller banks.
Employees Aided in Finance Plans
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At Lehman, 25,000 Worry About Future

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A New Approach to Mentoring
Working with a mentor is a classic recipe for success in business. But the traditional mentoring relationship just doesn't work anymore.
Finding Your Way Out of Negative Thinking at Work
Get a Better Salary After Years of Low Pay

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When Tough Times Weigh on the Kids
Children can be silent carriers of family financial stress, which may lead to emotional problems. Here's what parents can do to help kids cope.
Retailers Reprogram Workers
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Working-Class Women Shift to Obama
As the economy sputters, Obama is picking up support from some of the very women who until recently disdained him.
Texas Polygamy Probe Likely to Expand
Europe Court May Pass on Abortion Again

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Ford Friction Led to Leclair's Exit
The retirement of Don Leclair, the auto maker's finance chief, came after increasing friction with the top ranks.
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Ford CFO Leclair Steps Down
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Walgreen CEO Steps Down

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