The Wall Street Journal
Careers Main
Networking is about building long-term relationships—not simply selling yourself.
Shared office space used to be a setup for freelancers or businesses with just a handful of employees. In recent years, though, some new ventures have bucked the traditional model by creating pay-as-you-go setups for sizable start-ups.
Subscriber Content Read Preview
The increasing role of standardized testing is triggering rebellion from school officials, teachers and parents who say the system is stifling teaching and learning.
Subscriber Content Read Preview
Garth Saloner, dean of Stanford University's Graduate School of Business, discusses the three elements of innovation that the school tries to nurture in its students.
As Facebook's IPO mints new millionaires, the social-networking company will need to persuade employees that they are as critical to the firm as a public company as they were when it was a start-up.
When it comes to meetings, co-workers can be deadly. Among the biggest offenders are naysayers and co-workers who wander off-topic. To boost productivity, some managers take extreme measures.
Financial incentives can spur us to success, but only up to a point, a new study says. Also, chatty women may be snubbed in the workplace.
Subscriber Content Read Preview
The latest fashion collections reflect a power look for women, fueled by variety, feminine details and new colors.
A fashion-incubator program offers tough love to nine small fashion labels competing to win $10,000 for the best pitch.
These days, managers gunning for the C-suite should be ready to complete multiple stints abroad.
Emotional displays are frowned up, but it's unhealthful to just bottle up your feelings. Experts say you should be attuned to your "emotional triggers" so responses can be managed for more productive outcomes.
Subscriber Content Read Preview
Subscriber Content Read Preview
After a nearly year-long nationwide search Villanova University's business school has named one of its own faculty as its new dean.
While rumors of an all black-and-white dress code persist at Richard Meier & Partners Architects, employees say they can wear whatever they like. But office style tends to favor clean lines and a neutral palette.
Since 2009, Rent the Runway has been making high fashion more accessible to women by renting out dresses and accessories for a fraction of their retail price. Here's a look at their office style.
Proskauer, which represents clients such as J.P. Morgan and all the major U.S. sports leagues, has been headquartered in New York City since 1875. Here's a look at their office style.
To reach the top, executives must learn how to exude "presence." Some tips: Don't nod your head and do clean up your look. For one vice president, an image makeover helped her gain the managerial gravitas that she needed.
Subscriber Content Read Preview
As shareholders scrutinize links between executive pay and corporate performance, many companies continue to quietly shower chief executives with benefits such as corporate-jet use, event tickets and chauffeurs.
Subscriber Content Read Preview
Subscriber Content Read Preview
Plunging results on Florida's standardized writing test for fourth-graders has triggered concern among school officials, teachers and parents that the state is implementing changes to the testing system too quickly, and has spurred a broader debate about the increasing role of standardized testing in classrooms.
Rebekah Brooks, the former head of News Corp.'s U.K. newspaper unit, and five others were charged with conspiring to obstruct justice, the first criminal charges in a tabloid probe.
Subscriber Content Read Preview
Subscriber Content Read Preview


Nearly a quarter of recent college graduates say they wouldn't take a job where they couldn't make personal phone calls. Also, if you're negotiating, stay calm and don't have a "hissy fit."
McKinsey director Joanna Barsh discussed research on the leaky corporate pipeline for talented women in a live chat today on May 7. Read the full transcript.
Kay Hymowitz: In studies from the U.S. to Sweden, pay discrimination can't explain the disparity. Women earn less because they work fewer hours.
The rates on popular federal student loans could shoot up before the next academic season, depending on the outcome of a political battle brewing in Washington.
Columnist Sue Shellenbarger offers resources on avoiding debt in college.
There are many considerations, such as choosing the right location, negotiating rent and budgeting for other expenses.
Want to be your own Boss?
Find opportunities in our business and franchise databases.
Subscriber Content Read Preview
Subscriber Content Read Preview
Subscriber Content Read Preview
Hello
Your question to the Journal Community Your comments on articles will show your real name and not a username.Why?
Create a Journal Community profile to avoid this message in the future. (As a member you agree to use your real name when participating in the Journal Community)