Company Profiles

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...