Company Profiles

Walmart tried to put a positive spin on its disappointing earnings report Thursday, which showed declining U.S. sales. But a survey released Friday contains another bad sign for America's wealthiest company and largest employer: just 38 percent of employees think Walmart's business outlook is good.

The times are booming for America's biggest businesses. This year's Fortune 500, the wealthiest publicly traded companies as ranked by Fortune magazine, earned $820 billion last year, just under 2011's record revenues. But soaring profits aren't translating into jobs. "These companies are making a lot of money...

AP Photo/Austin American-Statesman, Deborah CannonJohn Mackey, co-CEO of Whole Foods, speaks during a session titled "Conscious Capitalism: Liberating the Heroic Spirit of Business" at the SXSW Interactive Festival in Austin on Sunday, March 10, 2013. If you had told me, when I was attending college during the...

By Max Nisen The Mayo Clinic is one of the best-known and regarded health care systems in the world, and has been for over a century. According to CEO Dr. John Noseworthy, one of the things that's made that happen is an incredibly committed and highly-skilled workforce. Part of that is the fact that Mayo...

It isn't clear why Dish Network Corp. wants to spend $2.4 billion to gobble up Clearwire Corp. and its desirable chunk of high-speed wireless network capacity. But Clearwire employees have ample reason to hope the deal won't go through, seeing as there's no shortage of Dish employees who find the...

For all the high-profile woes Facebook has encountered in recent months because of its botched $16 billion stock offering last spring and complaints by users about privacy, the social-media powerhouse remains an attractive company to work for. In fact, Facebook Inc. topped the latest list of best employers,...

Finding a great place to work for many workers can be a challenge, especially in this economy when so many are content just to have a steady paycheck. The soft labor market, though, doesn't necessarily make it easier -- even for large global companies -- to find top talent, which is why so many of them still...

The jobs picture for many veterans has improved significantly during the last year, though those who served in Afghanistan and Iraq, in particular, still face challenges in finding employment. Programs, such as those spearheaded by President Obama, have helped to spur interest among employers in hiring...

Big corporations have long used relentlessly cheery speeches and other tools to motivate employees. But sometimes those efforts can come off as trite, childish and downright cheesy. Target Corp., apparently, is no exception. As Gawker reports, the big-box retailer is rallying its employees to provide...

One of the disadvantages to most part-time jobs is the lack of benefits. But Starbucks Corp. doesn't discriminate, providing the ubiquitous coffee chain's 95,000 part-timers with full health insurance benefits. For many who lost full-time jobs during the Great Recession and got part-time gigs at Starbucks,...

Despite the nation's stubbornly high unemployment rate, many companies -- especially high-tech firms -- struggle to hang on to top talent, prompting many employers to develop new or novel ways to keep key staff happy. To do that, many businesses have introduced or bolstered programs to improve the overall...

This year marks the 15th anniversary for Fortune's list of the World's Most Admired Companies. In that span only three companies -- GE, Berkshire Hathaway, and P&G -- have ranked first in their industry every time. This year's all-star list is led by tech companies, and Apple takes the No. 1 spot.

My name is Chris, I am 28 years old and I have been an employee at Northrop Grumman for a little over a year. I work in Fort Sill, Okla., in the Technical Services division on a military trainer contract with the Army and I love every second of it. I honestly could not think of nor recommend a better company...

Working at Home Depot was all the rage when I was a senior in high school. It was less than ten years ago that I first applied there. Training Most of Home Depot's young aspirants start out on the registers, which is just what I did. Orientation was rather painless, mostly listening to the teacher raving...

Have you ever had a really great idea that you just knew would make a millionaire, if you could just figure out how to bring it to market? You might be sitting on the next great social networking site, but unlike Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, you're not surrounded by Harvard brains who will help you develop it...

The day my AOL business cards arrived in the mail, I felt like doing a back flip in front of all my colleagues in AOL's Chicago office. The cards, for the uninitiated, come with about a dozen different variations of the AOL logo on them: ice cream cones, scribbles, jet engines, flowers. And while business...

Although it may not be the most stylish or flattering ensemble, I can honestly say that I look forward to putting on my blue polo shirt and khaki pants every day. It's seems rare these days to find college students who truly enjoy their job the way I do.

Who would think that their ideal job would be located deep in the bucolic hills of Tennessee in a tiny town with a population somewhere between 361 and 500 people? If you knew the second you read the number 361 that we're referring to Lynchburg, because that's what it says on the Jack Daniel's label, it...

I spent 25 years working at IBM, most of it in fairly technical programming jobs, but the rewards (and the frustrations) are much the same regardless of your particular job assignment. In many ways, IBM is still an excellent place to work. Their benefits are very generous, although the pension no longer is,...

Now that Americans are feeling safer about their jobs, many have returned to furnishing and decorating their homes. That could be one of the reasons why Scandinavian furniture store IKEA is expanding and taking on more employees.