This week's Fun With Statistics comes to us via Tyler Cowen at the Marginal Revolution blog, and deals with the impact of life events on CEO perfo…

By James Cavalluzzi This article is from the Superfactory Archives, an archive of content from the Superfactory website that existed from 1997 to 20…

Late last year we told you about Whirlpool... laying off over a thousand workers in the U.S. just to rehire a similar number at other plants. Traditio…

I think we all know what the Law of Diminishing Returns is but for the sake of clarity I’ve included the wise words of Wikipedia to improve our unders…

Yesterday I had the opportunity to take several bags of used clothing to a local charity. Many of us (I hope) do this, as often our discarded clothes…

Among my top five most despised activities is putting together those cheap rickety metal shelves that you can buy at pretty much any hardware store. Y…

How often have we heard that the U.S. was running out of land fill space, packaging adds to waste issues, and recycling helps protect the environment?…

We've often discussed how outsourcing lemmings generally look at just one factor, labor cost, when deciding to offshore manufacturing. In reality…