Vickie Elmer

Women don’t negotiate for themselves, which could be the biggest career mistake they make—but there are plenty of others.

The US government just upended the economics of higher education—and may have effectively limited the extra help some professors offer to students too.

The higher up the ladder you climb, the more it hurts if you fall—and the harder it is to regain your standing.

One big reason women make less than men is because they tend to demand more flexible schedules. And new economic research shows that if more workplaces adopted a more team-oriented, job-sharing approach—like physicians in a group practice—the cost of flexible work would dissipate and the premium for long hours would too.

A funny thing happened after Buffer, a social-sharing app and site, decided to publish every single employee’s salaries on its website: Applications soared and the quality of candidates improved. “It kind of feels like this is somewhat of a movement bubbling up here. That’s kind of surprising,” CEO and co-founder Joel Gascoigne says in an interview with Quartz.

In a job interview, make your case fast and be sure your suit is pressed, too.

DETROIT, Michigan—Cars are king in the Motor City, especially during this week’s North American International Auto Show. But a couple of automakers are also showing bicycles.

Temping is a growing part of the US economy as more employers are hiring more temporary staff, even in a slow growth month like December.

During a week like this, with record cold temperatures across a large section of the US, telecommuting sounds almost as enticing as a trip to Fiji. Now that’s a possibility for more workers in the US (working from home, not an island vacation).

Even a famous Hollywood director can flub his lines when he has no clue what he’s supposed to say.

The worst shopping day of the holiday season for retailers in malls and on Main Street occurred on one of the busiest shopping days online: Cyber Monday.

Today—the first day of the new year—is also probably the first day of your diet. Just know that whether you’re drinking protein or modeling meals after cavemen, someone is cashing in on everyone’s newfound resolve to lose weight. In the US alone, dieting is a $61 billion industry.

A lot of people assume that reindeer, just like Santa Claus, are make believe. But the antlered stars of Christmas stories such as Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer and the Santa Claus movie are real animals—that bring in real business. Renting reindeer for an hour for, say, the company Christmas party typically costs several hundreds of dollars; their day rate is several times that.

Welcome to the season of setting goals—a two-month period when businesses, families, and individuals explore aspirations for the year ahead.

For most people gift-giving peaks around the holidays, but in the corporate world, it happens at a clip all year long.

Make your career moves healthy ones. In the US, you can bet on health care or management.

If you’re trying to make every minute count, focus your efforts on Tuesdays. It turns out that is the most productive day of the week.

It’s time to stop labeling yourself as “responsible,” “creative,” and “driven.” Those are the most overused words on LinkedIn profiles worldwide, according to a new list published by the company.

For a site whose goal is to share knowledge, Quora has a considerable amount of questions that go unanswered.

A recent all-staff internal memo from two senior Yahoo executives addressed its readers as “pilgrim,” then “sailor,” and mentioned “T-Rex,” “The Itsy-Bitsy Pterodactyl,” the “hippocampian wagons” and  “Ayn Randian Objectivism” all in one paragraph.

Whether you shop online or on Main Street, your time browsing or buying is being carefully measured—and it’s decreasing. On average, Americans spend three-quarters of an hour, each day, buying goods and services, whether online or in stores, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).

The biggest crowdfunded project in China has drawn 5,533 donors and raised more than $200,000 to support an online cartoon series called “A Hundred Thousand Bad Jokes” on China’s first crowdfunding site, DemoHour. This is paltry sum compared to crowdfunding projects in the US, which have reached upwards of $10 million—but that is about to change.

Despite all the efforts to advance more women into leadership jobs, women still would rather have a male boss—at least until they’ve worked for one.

The IPO market is a-Twitter with the debuts of young companies that seem to have enticing but uncharted futures.