After losing more than $1 billion last year, cutting 400 jobs and closing 50 stores, Best Buy has a new strategy that focuses on its smaller stores. But will it work?

New Yahoo! Inc. CEO Scott Thompson cleared an important hurdle this week, hosting his first earnings call since taking over the struggling company and reporting stronger-than-expected profits.

Even though Enron as a company no longer exists, there are certain lessons and anecdotes in Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room that everyone should see. The epitome of greed, the courage to stand against it, and the cheesy-yet-true revelation that you can never judge a book, or a major corporation, by its cover.

Teens face the highest unemployment rate in the U.S. and yet young adults generally don’t consider a manufacturing career.

The Federal Reserve’s decision to keep interest rates at their super-low levels reflects its concern about the state of the economic recovery in general, especially the connected future of the housing and job markets.

Shares of Manpower have been under pressure following two negative monthly jobs reports, but analysts see better times ahead for the temporary staffing firm.

What happens when college graduates and post-graduates can’t get a job in their chosen field? For some the answer is simple: go back to summer camp.

Consumer confidence dropped this month after improving in April, as consumers worried about future business and labor market conditions as well as their income prospects and high gas prices, according to private research firm the Conference Board.

GDP numbers for the first quarter were disappointing and the Department of Labor reported a 10,000 increase in new claims for unemployment insurance in the latest week.

Although McDonald’s said it would hire 50,000 people in one day, McJob-seekers at 6560 S. Stony Island Ave. did little more than add their applications to a stack more than two feet high.