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Web Sites That Provide Salary Help
There are a number of salary calculators and online Web sites, but many offer just an aggregated or best-guess figure. A few sites, however, offer more.
Lean Times Swell Avon's Sales Force
As financial pressures mount, Avon is offering its sales ranks incentives to make selling beauty products door-to-door more appealing.
Finance Professionals Split on Leaving Industry
A recent survey shows 53% financial-services professionals are undecided about or are already considering making a move to another field.
Lower Salaries Could Cost Wall Street
Government investments in banks could crimp executive pay on Wall Street, and hinder firms' ability to attract and retain top talent.
- Podcast: Steve Kaplan explains pay restrictions
- Discuss: Should the government cap pay?
Seeking Refuge in an M.B.A. Program
Business is bad on Wall Street, and business schools are bracing for the impact: A surge in applications this year to their full-time M.B.A. programs.
Creating a Consultancy With Your Expertise
For professionals who want to use their expertise in new ways, becoming an independent consultant is a common jump. Ways to make the transition easier.
Employers Rethink Feedback Methods
Increased demand for feedback from younger workers is forcing some employers to rethink how they discuss employee performance.
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.
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.
- Discuss: Will the crisis hurt your bonus this year?
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.
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Weekly Jobless Claims Drop
Escaping a Reputation as a Novice
An Executive Downshifts From Fast Lane
The Next Bailout: Your Adult Children?

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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.

News & Trends

Winning Over E.M.B.A. Spouses
Business schools have stepped up programs to get spouses and significant others in tune with students. The efforts are paying off.
Allaying Workers' Fears in Tough Times
B-Schools Move to Assist Alums

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Career Strategies

Finding Your Way Out of Negative Thinking at Work
If your bosses consider you the office Eeyore, but you believe you're merely a realist, the burden to change lies with you.
Get a Better Salary After Years of Low Pay
Former Olympian Shifts Gears to Science

Office Life

No Excuse for Wasting Time
Tackling small jobs may help procrastinators gear up for big ones.
A New Approach to Mentoring
When Tough Times Weigh on the Kids

Journal Women

Texas Polygamy Probe Likely to Expand
Texas authorities have brought charges against members of the polygamist sect they raided six months ago. The investigation could soon expand to Utah and Arizona.
Europe Court May Pass on Abortion Again
Army Seeks to Prevent Sexual Assaults

Education

NIH Freezes Large Grant to Emory
Payments on a $9.3 million grant have been stopped pending an investigation over the disclosure of a faculty member's consulting work.
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HBO's Callender to Depart
HBO veteran Colin Callender is leaving his post as head of the network's original film and miniseries department to start his own company.
Bloomberg Hires NBC News Ex-President
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Sears CFO to Step Down

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