Recently, a reader wrote me to suggest that rather than trying to encourage someone, a better way to motivate them is to issue a challenge. So, I felt challenged to write about it.

The idea of the garage as an incubator for startup businesses is as American as hot dogs, baseball, and apple pie (although I like apple cobbler better).

Double a city’s population, and its economic productivity goes up 130 percent. MIT researchers think they know why.

Whether you are a shelf stocker at Walmart, a second-year associate at a consulting company, or an equity analyst at an investment bank, you may feel that you are not adequately compensated for the work you do; in other words, you are underpaid.

Six Sigma evolved during the time of an economic boom. It was the mid-1980s, and companies had begun to feel the effects of stiffer competition.

With ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 currently being revised by ISO technical committees, Mike James, the managing director of LRQA, and David Lawson, LRQA’s technical director, talked about the progress to date on both standards as well as what the revisions could mea