| Women more likely to give office holiday gifts A new survey by OfficeTeam suggests women at the office give more holiday gifts than men, and overall, more people expect to give more gifts than they receive. bizjournals.com |
AGCA: Construction outlook grim Some 90 percent of the nation’s contractors expect no recovery in 2010, according to a construction hiring and business outlook forecast released Wednesday by the Associated General Contractors of America. bizjournals.com |
MGIC's Culver paid $900,000 in 2009 MGIC Investment Corp.'s chief executive officer Curt Culver received a 4.6 percent salary increase in 2009, but that was because the year contained one extra pay period, the Milwaukee-based mortgage insurer said. (MTG) bizjournals.com |
Report: China has cost North Carolina 95,000 jobs North Carolina is second hardest hit state in the nation in terms of the 2.4 million American jobs lost or displaced since 2001, according to the Economic Policy Institute and the Alliance for American Manufacturing, which tie the losses to China joining the World Trade Organization in that year. bizjournals.com |
Corner Office: City Harvest’s Leader Says She Isn’t the Rah-Rah Type Jilly Stephens, executive director of City Harvest in New York, says leaders should find the management style that works for them. For her, that means an emphasis on small-group meetings. nytimes.com |