Vickie Elmer

Moms, don’t let your babies grow up to be transportation workers.

Anyone who’s a believer in the “end of men” hasn’t seen the latest employment data, ironically out on International Women’s Day.

Despite its laid-back, sun-soaked image, Puerto Rico is home to some of the worst commutes in the United States, new census data reveal (PDF).

Indeed is turning into the Google of job search.

An update on Feb. 26 reflects comment from a Yahoo spokesperson.

With more drivers embracing fuel-efficient or hybrid cars, it seems like carmakers would be embracing smaller cars. Instead, they’re going in the opposite direction.

DETROIT, Michigan—Expect your car and your smart phone to get very intimate, very soon.

Former GM Vice Chairman Bob Lutz seemed impatient for the start of his new venture. He checked his watch twice before he stood up to announce VL Automative”America’s smallest, newest and most expensive car company”at the North American International Auto Show. 

LinkedIn has become the “see and be seen” social network for managing your career, and it just topped 200 million members worldwide.

Everyone’s focused on the Corvette at today’s North American International Auto Show. But a sleek sports car from China’s is also getting quite a bit of attention.

In streets and festivals throughout Europe and China, chestnuts are sold and served hot from the roaster or fire, in paper bags.

Loren Nalewanski likes to be laughed at by his team, and he tries for some unscripted light-hearted moments in most management meetings and training sessions, whether they’re held in Washington D.C. or Dubai or Shanghai. “I can take the joke, and be the butt of the joke,” said the Marriott executive who serves as a vice president of its TownePlace Suites and Marriott Executive Apartments, which provide long-term housing in Asia, the Middle East and elsewhere.

In the United States, holidays are often less about making memories and more about making money.

The career aspirations of boys and girls around the globe follow some clear patterns, regardless of whether they live in Singapore or Sweden, Australia, or the United Arab Emirates.

Managers from New York to West Virginia launched crisis plans related to Mega-storm Sandy. But the next crisis could take any number of forms and strike without warning. For example, next week, it could be a general strike in Spain, Greece and elsewhere over government austerity measures or a spike in petroleum prices.

Managers face an array of time traps, from needy staffers to knotty problems and never-ending emails.

Matthew E. May was invited to sit in on a planning meeting recently, serving as a facilitator to a group of executives who intended to develop a 2013 roadmap for their company. “It kept getting longer and longer,” with each idea spurring another, May said.

Neither Kerry Bertram nor Sharon Avent would have made it into Mitt Romney’s “binders full of women,” yet both know a great deal about women’s leadership, and well, office supplies.