When Mario Vargas Llosa won the Nobel Prize for Literature this week, the British literary betting agent Ladbrokes couldn’t have been more pleased. Ladbrokes had given the Peruvian author slim odds of winning the prize, so when…
Lisa Birnbach’s True Prep, the long-awaited sequel to her 1980 opus, The Official Preppy Handbook, looks at how the prep lifestyle has weathered the past thirty years. Although upper class styles in the U.S. seem to be more inf…
This week’s episode of Undercover Boss will explore the recurring theme of disconnect between frontline worker and front office at America’s large companies. With his newly acquired scruffy beard, DirecTV CEO Mike White will go…
Well, DailyFinance readers, it’s been a great ride, but now it’s time for me to say goodbye. On Monday, I start a new job at Forbes, where I’ll be covering media and technology.
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The Gap earned nearly universal scorn this week when it unveiled its new logo. But the clothing retailer’s response — a crowd-sourcing request aimed at getting the public to design a better logo for free — is only fueling the…