In The Headlines Ulta’s Formula for Success in a Competitive Cosmetics Market A tight focus on cosmetics and fragrances has given beauty products retailer Ulta an edge over drugstores and department stores. Offer a broad assortment of beauty products, cosmetics, and fragrances across the price spectrum. Add low-pressure but high-touch customer [...]

In The Headlines J.C. Penney’s 3-Pronged Strategy for Survival Following J.C. Penney's brush with death during the past decade, the 113-year-old company's future boils down to a three-part turnaround strategy overseen by president and CEO-designee Marvin Ellison. The challenge that lies ahead for the chain of department stores cannot be overstated. [...]

In The Headlines Cord Cutting Becomes Serious for Big Media Media stocks recently took a battering when investors appeared to lose faith in entertainment companies as fears intensify about clients scaling back on traditional cable packages. Some industry watchers say the worst is yet to come, as big media's strategies for [...]

Tales from the IRS Red Card! Picture a greedy cabal of shameless officials lording over a famously corrupt international cartel. Add suitcases full of cash bribes, and multimillion-dollar payoffs coursing through a shadowy network of shell companies and offshore accounts. Throw in a loud, colorful "mole" celebrating a life of private [...]

In The Headlines Spurred by the Affordable Care Act, Large Health Insurers Pursue Mergers Anthem and Cigna are the latest big American health insurers to propose a blockbuster merger. They and their peers need to satisfy many regulators, though, before the deals are approved. Aetna has agreed to buy Humana for [...]

In The Headlines Daniel Wellington Makes the Cheap Watch Cool Again Daniel Wellington, or DW as the company is often abbreviated, makes watches that are both instantly recognizable and so generic they verge on invisible. They come with polished-steel or rose-gold-colored cases, in five sizes from a diminutive 26-millimeter (mm) to [...]

In The Headlines Daniel Wellington Makes the Cheap Watch Cool Again Daniel Wellington, or DW as the company is often abbreviated, makes watches that are both instantly recognizable and so generic they verge on invisible. They come with polished-steel or rose-gold-colored cases, in five sizes from a diminutive 26-millimeter (mm) to [...]

In The Headlines The World Economy Picks Up Steam, Despite Greece and China You would not know it, given the noise from China and Greece, but the world economy is picking up steam. Morgan Stanley predicted recently a global expansion of almost 4% in the second half of this year, up [...]

In The Headlines Inflight Internet: Why You Might Be Paying More for Less It is summer time, and that means millions of vacation-bound Americans are beginning to fill airports across the country. An amenity featured on more and more flights these days is Internet access delivered directly to your laptop, tablet, [...]

In The Headlines Little Tax Lien on the Prairie Us Weekly is one of those glossy tabloid magazines you see in the checkout line at your local supermarket. Every week, they run a photo feature called "Stars: They're Just Like Us," with revealing, slice-of-life gems such as a Bachelorette throwing a [...]