Insuring Hollywood Against Falls (but Not Flops)
By JANET MORRISSEY
In the film world, Fireman’s Fund has become the go-to company for insuring against production injuries and accidents.
Gilad Elbaz has a big mission for Factual, his start-up company: Identify every existing fact to build the world’s chief reference point.
Gilad Elbaz, the founder of Factual and an investor in 30 other start-ups, may be the most influential inventor in the booming business of data collection and analysis.
In the film world, Fireman’s Fund has become the go-to company for insuring against production injuries and accidents.
In a continuing effort to distance himself from News Corporation's embattled British newspaper unit, James Murdoch has stepped down from the board of Times Newspapers Holdings.
When SustainU, an apparel company, needed to make 24,000 T-shirts, it turned to an agency in Winston-Salem, N.C., that employs the blind.
To cope with the information explosion, computer-based tools are combing through the words of myriad written works to find common themes.
A reader asks the Haggler about SMS subscriptions she says she didn’t want — but that still popped up as charges on her monthly cellphone statement.
For students, international internship programs offer a window to a different business culture — and perhaps the chance to earn college credit, if not any money.
The president of Intellectual Ventures says her childhood move to what had been an all-white school offered a valuable life lesson.
The author is just one member of a small but hardy group of smartphone holdouts, people who shun the device for a low-tech “dumbphone.”
Why do some New York nannies earn more than doctors? Faulty economics (for starters), but also because they can groom horses and speak Mandarin.
Requiring Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to write down principal on mortgages held by troubled borrowers would add to taxpayer losses — and result in a different form of a bailout for banks.
When selling innovation within an organization, says Terry Tietzen of Edatanetworks, it’s best to do so gradually — in nibbles — so that everyone will want to buy in.
It now seems that the 21st century will resemble the 19th and early 20th centuries, with periodic panics and runs on financial institutions — but in a redefined form.
By official measures, the current bull market is now three years old — a sign that it may be about to run its course. But some people see the situation differently.
A new leader was nominated for the World Bank, the United States added tariffs to Chinese solar panels and Britain’s new budget maintained austerity measures.
With high gas prices and environmental awareness, the future would seem to be bright for the electric car. But instead it’s iffy.
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