With help, bead firm has world on a string

Bijoux Design Creations, hurt by the recession's toll on discretionary spending, learns how to help its sal...

REPORTER'S NOTEBOOK

Devoted army creates Oasis' grandeur

When I visited the Oasis of the Seas the day before she was delivered to Royal Caribbean International at t...

Sandy's Super Suds irons out details for website

Sandra Bonner's laundry service is up and running. Now Sandy's Super Suds needs a website.

SMALL BUSINESS

Moms stitch together winning business

Two moms come up with doll-adorned denim jackets for girls that are both fun to wear and great for playing ...

Bankruptcies

Recent bankruptcies for the Southern District of Florida

Real estate listings from Michael Y. Cannon

HIALEAH OFFICE BUILDING SELLS FOR $675,000 Location: 2899 W. 4th Ave. Seller: First States Investors...

Movers

High-level promotions and new hires in South Florida

South Florida hospitals compete for international patients

Six years after the death of an ambitious joint effort to make Miami a major healthcare destination for wea...

REAL ESTATE

In current real estate market, even God's House is for sale

In South Florida's bleak real-estate market, houses for sale aren't the only glut. Churches and other relig...

REAL ESTATE

Some entrepreneurs find opportunity in foreclosure meltdown

South Florida's housing boom cratered fast and, like the epicenter of an earthquake, left a trail of destru...

STATE OF FORECLOSURE

Homestead deals with aftermath of boom

Once dubbed the fastest-growing city among medium-sized cities, Homestead is now dealing with the aftermath...

Massive amounts of foreclosures clogging county's civil courts

Most everyone involved in a foreclosure says they never wanted to go through the process in the first place...

STATE OF FORECLOSURE

Foreclosure crisis far from over for South Florida

Nearly one in four home loans in Florida are delinquent -- the highest rate in the nation. And thanks to th...

BUSINESS BOOKS

New Yorker articles offer business insights

This collection of New Yorker articles looks at business people and others.

BUSINESS BOOKS

Most media mergers cursed

A new book recounts the woes that ensued from ill-advised corporate couplings.

BUSINESS BOOKS

The business of building a new life

Craig Ferguson's autobiography is a testimony to America's eternal appeal to immigrants.

BUSINESS BOOKS

Business Books: Life goes on after layoffs, but it won't be easy

Author David M. Noer navigates through the guilt, fear and worse when dealing with layoffs.

Join the Business Monday Book Club

Here's your chance to read the latest business books and review them in The Miami Herald.

Worst-Case survival book offers little new

This presumably serious entry in the humorous series is a good effort but hardly revelatory.

Two books advocate `design thinking'

Two books advocate ``design thinking'' to spark creativity and innovation.