BNET Business Dictionary
Business Definition for: Caring Economy
- an economy based on amicable and helpful relationships between businesses and people
Additional Resources
- Whatever... Why Employees Stop Caring About Work
- Employee engagement is a comparatively new term, but the concept is old. We used to call it commitment or involvement. Even without research, common sense dictates that if you're keen, committed and involved -- and these attitudes are supported, respected, encouraged and rewarded...
- Blog posts 2008-10-16
- Remarks by the President on the Economy
- KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Hallmark Cards, Inc. 10:47 A.M. CST THE PRESIDENT: Thank you, all. Thank you for letting me come by to say hello. A couple of observations -- one, you work for a fabulous company of caring people. I appreciate, Don, your hospitality. I am still...
- Research articles 2008-02-01
- National Cooperative Bank Acknowledges the 'Cooperative Spirit' of Our Nation's Businesses; Cooperatives Are Stable Business Model; Form `Fourth Sector' of the Economy
- Business Editors WASHINGTON--BUSINESS WIRE--Nov. 2, 2001 National Cooperative Bank NCB released today its annual list of the nation's 100 highest revenue-earning cooperatives, the NCB Co-op 100R, available in its entirety at www.co-op100.com. Cooperatives--democratically controlled enterprises, created and used by their member-owners--are guided by values of democracy, equality,...
- Research articles 2001-11-02
- Is Cash the Best Motivator?
- Is Cash the Best Motivator?Cash vs. noncash awards.For close to 20 years I've had a close relationship with Maritz Inc., the company in Missouri that's all about getting more out of a company's prime stakeholders: both direct employees and the folks who work in the channel, whether for dealers, franchisees...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-03
- Rude Awakening
- In the middle and late 1990s, when many employers were embracing the idea of the New Economy, job applicants generally were treated as potentially valuable assets. But after the stock market bubble burst and the economy stumbled, many companies started treating job applicants as something of a nuisance. Whatever the...
- White papers 2004-09-01
- How NOT to Lose a Hot Prospect
- How NOT to Lose a Hot ProspectRE: How NOT to Lose a Hot ProspectHaha the letter is funny. It could be in Mandarin? "Sleep with both eyes closed".RE: How NOT to Lose a Hot ProspectExactly, get them on the phone. The product has options, frame the letter with questions,...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-16
- Parentonomics | BTalk Australia
- (13min 19) Economist Joshua Gans applies economic theory to the raising of children in his book "Parentonomics: An Economist Dad Looks at Parenting". In today's BTalk Australia he explains to Phil Dobbie why advertising of unhealthy food is a good thing, how sharing is part of childbirth,...
- Blog posts 2008-12-10
- New Logo Says Wal-Mart's a Nicer Place To Save Money
- Wal-Mart has been rolling out a new store logo meant, the company said, to reflect its commitment to customers as well as the social sensibilities it has adopted. Of course, it’s not a bad time for Wal-Mart to introduce its customers to the broader agenda it has...
- Blog posts 2009-02-08
- Kohl's Greens Up Its Image, and the Timing Couldn't Be Better
- With all that’s going on in the economy, the “new normal,†price wars, web wars and every other kind of initiative retailers are launching to chase the few dollars frugal consumers are spending, the amount of time, attention and money retailers are spending on sustainability seems amazing. ...
- Blog posts 2009-11-04
- A Little Innovation Inspiration
- A brilliant brief profile of managing out of a morass is in a new special issue of Smithsonian magazine, titled America’s Young Innovators. One of the 37 people (all under 36) profiled in the magazine is Ramon Gonzalez, who four years ago started the Laboratory School of Finance and Technology,...
- Blog posts 2007-11-05
- I Love My Job! : Leadership Role
- Today's leaders can take a lesson from this fireman. Research tells us that 70 percent of one's work environment is directly attributed to the employees leader. Here, it demonstrated the powerful impact that a leader has on creating an environment where despite difficulty, bad times, even tragic times, the people...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- From Baseball to Accounting: Why We Encourage Unethical Behavior
- From Baseball to Accounting: Why We Encourage Unethical Behavioranswer to: why we aencourage unehtical behaviorAs a speaker, executive coach and trainer for Ethical, CSR and Sustainability conferences & workshops I have presented, The Ethical Enterprise, A Global Study, 2005-2015, work that I had researched and authored for the American Management...
- Discussion threads 2008-01-29
- Why More Physicians Prefer To Be Employed
- Private medical practice has been declining at an annual rate of about 2 percent a year for the past 25 years, according to a review article in The New England Journal of Medicine. In 2001, the latest year for which overall figures are available, the AMA estimates the percentage of...
- Blog posts 2009-02-17
- The Brave New World of Health Care
- The Brave New World Of Health Care Richard D. Lamm Fulcrum Publishing 16100 table Mtn Parkway #300, Golden CO 80403 1555915108 $12.95 1-800-992-2908 www.fulcrum-books.com The average American currently can expect to spend more years caring for an aging parent than her children, and the health...
- Research articles 2004-12-01
- Your 60s: Retire in Comfort Despite a Tough Market
- Real Life: The HoffasLong before Michelle Obama planted a garden on the White House Lawn, Dan and Barbara Hoffa were digging up their backyard in Portland, Ore., to seed an ever-expanding plot of vegetables, fruit trees and flowers. For the next 20 years, the couple, now in their 60s,...
- Articles 2009-09-15
