Features

Are Workplace Tests WorthTaking?
(A) Yes, if you do them right. (B) No, because you're probably doing them wrong. (C) Both of the above.
By James Krohe Jr.

Buyout Fever
Winning companies belong on the public market, right? Hold on, says a panel of private-equity experts. Perhaps it's time to rethink that notion.
By Pip Coburn

What Were They Thinking?
Recent years have brought us various technological marvels that were supposed to change the way we live. Most didn't. So what can we learn from their failure?
By Pip Coburn

Should We Bother With Performance Appraisals?
Depends on whom you ask. We put the question to two experts. Their subsequent e-mail dialogue scrutinizes the merits (and demerits) of this much-beleaguered corporate practice.
By Dick Grote and Steve Scullen

Résumé Fraud Starts at the Top
You know something isn't kosher when a past employer's name on a CV matches the road where the candidate has a summer house. It's just one of many ways to spot résumé fakery.
By James B. Mintz

Can This Man Fix Our Healthcare System?
Harvard professor Michael Porter has what he believes to be a cure for what ails our system. It's called competition.
By A.J. Vogl

Questioning Authority
Kirk Snyder, the "G" man
By Vadim Liberman

Questioning Authority
Jared Bernstein, "YOYO" specialist
By Matthew Budman

Soundings

The Trouble With Benchmarking
By Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert I. Sutton

Building a Worse Mousetrap
By Gary Weiss

Branch Rickey's Model for Managing Meetings
By Jeff Angus

The Real "F" Word
By Joseph B. Fuller

And more from...
John Philpott, Stanley Bing, David C. McCourt, Richard D. Parsons, and Marc Cooper.

Departments

Openers
By A.J. Vogl

From the Board
What's wrong with short-termism? A long list of things, says Conference Board senior research associate Matteo Tonello.

Press Box
Of all of Donald Trump's high-profile relationships over the years, none has been as lasting as Trump's love affair with the media.
By Ellsworth Quarrels

In Review
How is wealth being created without money changing hands? The answer lies in prosumption.
By Peter Schwartz

In Review
What if Harry Potter and other wizards ran corporate America?
By Stephen Franklin

Sightings
Working by the Clock
By Vadim Liberman

Columns

Adventures in Cyberspace
While companies blame each other, the customer is left high, dry, and irate.
By E.J. Heresniak

The Irrational Universe
There are many ways of recovering from disgrace — some more productive than others.
By Phyllis Gail Doloff

Entrepreneuring
Founder-run companies are always making best-of lists. What are they doing that you're not?
By Larry Farrell