http://www.miamiherald.com/business/business-monday/index.html http://media.miamiherald.com/images/logos/rss_sitelogo.gif http://www.miamiherald.com/business/business-monday/index.html 140 25 News, sports and entertainment from MiamiHerald.com en-us Copyright 2009 MiamiHerald.com Business Monday 60 Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:29:58 EST http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's PubSys miamifeedback@miamiherald.com http://www.miamiherald.com/business/business-monday/story/1334598.html http://www.miamiherald.com/business/business-monday/story/1334598.html Mon, 16 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Six years ago, Robert Finvarb had a spot picked out for his new Courtyard by Marriott in Coconut Grove -- land next to a Burger King, with a view of U.S. 1. http://www.miamiherald.com/business/business-monday/story/1334582.html http://www.miamiherald.com/business/business-monday/story/1334582.html Mon, 16 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Muriel ``Mickie'' Siebert's firm has been in business since 1967 -- she likes to describe herself as the first discount brokerage.<p/> Since then, except for a five-year stint as New York state's superintendent of banks, Siebert has immersed herself in the brokerage world. Her company, Muriel Siebert & Co., has its headquarters in Manhattan, but it also has offices in California and South Florida. http://www.miamiherald.com/business/business-monday/story/1334580.html http://www.miamiherald.com/business/business-monday/story/1334580.html Mon, 16 Nov 2009 01:00 EST On a brisk October morning amid the clink of champagne glasses, Richard D. Fain took ownership of the $1.4-billion Oasis of the Seas on the southwest coast of this nation where shipbuilding is a proud tradition. http://www.miamiherald.com/business/business-monday/story/1334593.html http://www.miamiherald.com/business/business-monday/story/1334593.html Mon, 16 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Walk into Nancy Albert's store, and you are enticed by beads of all colors and sizes just waiting to be strung into unique designs. You may be inspired by the wall-sized hand-painted message: play, create, explore. http://www.miamiherald.com/business/business-monday/story/1334589.html http://www.miamiherald.com/business/business-monday/story/1334589.html Mon, 16 Nov 2009 01:00 EST When I visited the Oasis of the Seas the day before she was delivered to Royal Caribbean International at the STX Europe shipyard<p/>in Turku, Finland, the first thing that surprised me -- aside from the jaw-dropping size -- was the bustling crowd of Royal crew members who already were working like a colony of ants on the ship. http://www.miamiherald.com/business/business-monday/story/1334588.html http://www.miamiherald.com/business/business-monday/story/1334588.html Mon, 16 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Last year Sandra Bonner took a job as a substitute teacher with Miami-Dade County Public Schools soshe could have the time to pursue her lifelong dream -- owning her own business. Bonner, who holds a communications degree from Florida International University, had her eye on a chain of laundromats. But the floundering global economy forced her to rethink her dream of entrepreneurship. http://www.miamiherald.com/business/business-monday/story/1334597.html http://www.miamiherald.com/business/business-monday/story/1334597.html Mon, 16 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Two South Florida moms have combined two little-girl pastimes -- dolls and fashion -- to launch a line of children's outerwear called Dress Me Jackets. http://www.miamiherald.com/business/business-monday/story/1334586.html http://www.miamiherald.com/business/business-monday/story/1334586.html Mon, 16 Nov 2009 01:00 EST BANKRUPTCIESRecent bankruptcies for the Southern District of Florida<p/>Hernandez Associates Accountants, 136 SW 96th Ct., Miami. Chapter 7. Teresa M. Alvarez, 305-667-3040. http://www.miamiherald.com/business/business-monday/story/1334584.html http://www.miamiherald.com/business/business-monday/story/1334584.html Mon, 16 Nov 2009 01:00 EST HIALEAH<p/>OFFICE BUILDING<p/>SELLS FOR $675,000<p/> Location: 2899 W. 4th Ave.<p/> Seller: First States Investors 4200, LLC, represented by Allan B. Rothschild, vice president. http://www.miamiherald.com/business/business-monday/story/1334581.html http://www.miamiherald.com/business/business-monday/story/1334581.html Mon, 16 Nov 2009 01:00 EST BANKING<p/> Great Florida Bank has appointed Marianne Mulligan as vice president/loan compliance officer. Previously, Mulligan was a vice president at Riverside National Bank in Fort Pierce. http://www.miamiherald.com/business/business-monday/story/1334587.html http://www.miamiherald.com/business/business-monday/story/1334587.html Mon, 16 Nov 2009 01:00 EST What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures. Malcolm Gladwell. Little, Brown & Co. 410 pages. (Also on 10 CDs read by the author. Hachette Audio.) http://www.miamiherald.com/business/business-monday/story/1331821.html http://www.miamiherald.com/business/business-monday/story/1331821.html Sun, 15 Nov 2009 01:00 EST MONDAY<p/>Broward County Property Appraiser's Community Outreach Program: Deputy appraisers assist with Homestead and other property tax exemption applications, answer questions on property taxes and accept applications for portability at the outreach events in the county; through Nov. 26; free. 954-357-6035 or www.bcpa.net: http://www.miamiherald.com/business/business-monday/story/1322842.html http://www.miamiherald.com/business/business-monday/story/1322842.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Nurturing an entrepreneurial culture is all the talk right now as an antidote for the ailing economy. http://www.miamiherald.com/business/business-monday/story/1322850.html http://www.miamiherald.com/business/business-monday/story/1322850.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:00 EST In the waiting room, the patient's family members circled a Blackberry. About every 15 minutes, Dr. Carlos Wolf of Miami Plastic Surgery gave them a few keystrokes of information about how the patient was doing. http://www.miamiherald.com/602/story/1085748.html http://www.miamiherald.com/602/story/1085748.html Mon, 08 Jun 2009 08:11 EDT Six years after the death of an ambitious joint effort to make Miami a major healthcare destination for wealthy foreigners, a new group has formed to try to do the same thing -- for less money and without any attempts to disguise the fierce competition among local hospitals to lure well paying international patients. http://www.miamiherald.com/business/business-monday/job-file/story/1322565.html http://www.miamiherald.com/business/business-monday/job-file/story/1322565.html Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:00 EST In South Florida's bleak real-estate market, houses for sale aren't the only glut. Churches and other religious properties, some of them bank foreclosures, are plentiful, and stuck in a commercial purgatory. http://www.miamiherald.com/business/business-monday/job-file/story/1288448.html http://www.miamiherald.com/business/business-monday/job-file/story/1288448.html Mon, 19 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT South Florida's housing boom cratered fast and, like the epicenter of an earthquake, left a trail of destruction in its wake.<p/> But in the aftershocks of plummeting home prices, unemployment and continuing foreclosures, some professionals and entrepreneurs have found ways to make money amid the ruins. http://www.miamiherald.com/business/business-monday/job-file/story/1289196.html http://www.miamiherald.com/business/business-monday/job-file/story/1289196.html Sun, 18 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT Alexandra and Waldo Cruz moved from their Kendall apartment to Homestead, seduced by a yellow house with white trim, three bedrooms, two baths and a small yard in the back. http://www.miamiherald.com/business/business-monday/job-file/story/1288433.html http://www.miamiherald.com/business/business-monday/job-file/story/1288433.html Sun, 18 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT Most everyone involved in a foreclosure says they never wanted to go through the process in the first place: Not the homeowners at risk of losing their houses, not the banks that loaned them the money, not the judges who must rule on the cases. http://www.miamiherald.com/business/business-monday/job-file/story/1288053.html http://www.miamiherald.com/business/business-monday/job-file/story/1288053.html Sat, 17 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT If you think the torrent of foreclosures affecting every city and nearly every neighborhood and street in South Florida is as bad as it can get, here is a harsh new reality: http://www.miamiherald.com/business/columnists/richard-pachter/story/1334587.html http://www.miamiherald.com/business/columnists/richard-pachter/story/1334587.html Mon, 16 Nov 2009 01:00 EST What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures. Malcolm Gladwell. Little, Brown & Co. 410 pages. (Also on 10 CDs read by the author. Hachette Audio.) http://www.miamiherald.com/business/columnists/richard-pachter/story/1322834.html http://www.miamiherald.com/business/columnists/richard-pachter/story/1322834.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:00 EST The Curse of the Mogul: What's Wrong with the World's Leading Media Companies. Jonathan A. Knee, Bruce C. Greenwald, Ava Seave. Portfolio. 320 pages. http://www.miamiherald.com/business/columnists/richard-pachter/story/1310804.html http://www.miamiherald.com/business/columnists/richard-pachter/story/1310804.html Mon, 02 Nov 2009 01:00 EST American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot. Craig Ferguson. HarperCollins. 268 pages.<p/> Acknowledged that this may seem to be a left-field choice for a biz book review but upon closer examination, maybe not. Two reasons: first, some of the best business advice comes from life itself, not just unambiguously mercantile situations. Second, in many ways, this really is a business book: Fergusons' story is an archetypal tale of the pursuit of the American dream . . . and not just in terms of achieving success by owning a house with a wife and 2.6 kids. http://www.miamiherald.com/business/columnists/richard-pachter/story/1288437.html http://www.miamiherald.com/business/columnists/richard-pachter/story/1288437.html Mon, 19 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT Healing the Wounds: Overcoming the Trauma of Layoffs and Revitalizing Downsized Corporations. David M. Noer. Jossey-Bass. 272 pages. http://www.miamiherald.com/business/columnists/richard-pachter/story/1288443.html http://www.miamiherald.com/business/columnists/richard-pachter/story/1288443.html Mon, 19 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT Here's your chance to read the latest business books and review them in The Miami Herald. http://www.miamiherald.com/business/columnists/richard-pachter/story/1277242.html http://www.miamiherald.com/business/columnists/richard-pachter/story/1277242.html Mon, 12 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT The Worst-Case Scenario Business Survival Guide: How to Survive the Recession, Handle Layoffs, Raise Emergency Cash, Thwart an Employee Coup, and Avoid Other Potential Disasters. David Borgenicht, Mark Joyner. Wiley. 208 pages. http://www.miamiherald.com/business/columnists/richard-pachter/story/1266033.html http://www.miamiherald.com/business/columnists/richard-pachter/story/1266033.html Mon, 05 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT Innovation may well be the engine to get us out of this mess -- nothing new about that idea. Using the left and right parts of the brain in concert? Being practical and creative? Daniel Pink and a host of other major thinkers have been tooting that horn for years. Now dubbed ``convergent and divergent thinking,'' this notion is poised to enter the mainstream -- if it's not already there. http://www.miamiherald.com/business/columnists/richard-pachter/story/1254863.html http://www.miamiherald.com/business/columnists/richard-pachter/story/1254863.html Mon, 28 Sep 2009 01:00 EDT I Love You More Than My Dog: Five Decisions That Drive Extreme Customer Loyalty in Good Times and Bad. Jeanne Bliss. Portfolio. 198 pages. http://www.miamiherald.com/business/columnists/richard-pachter/story/1242473.html http://www.miamiherald.com/business/columnists/richard-pachter/story/1242473.html Mon, 21 Sep 2009 01:00 EDT A few weeks ago, I read and reviewed Walk The Walk, a book by Alan Deutschman about leadership that proposed that consistency is key. Say it, live it, do it. Simple. http://www.miamiherald.com/business/columnists/richard-pachter/story/1220460.html http://www.miamiherald.com/business/columnists/richard-pachter/story/1220460.html Mon, 07 Sep 2009 01:00 EDT I loved it. Easily read. Alan Deutschman does an amazing job demonstrating throughout history to current events the importance of leading by example versus blowing hot air no matter how extreme or mundane the point. His Four Elements of Belief are a very clear and simplistic direction for someone looking to stop talking and start walking. This book is used as a filter for readers to remember to be aware of their actions as if someone is always watching. You are leading to make a change by example even if you don't mean to. http://www.miamiherald.com/business/columnists/richard-pachter/story/1220473.html http://www.miamiherald.com/business/columnists/richard-pachter/story/1220473.html Mon, 07 Sep 2009 01:00 EDT Here's your chance to read the latest business books and review them in The Miami Herald.<p/>How it works<p/> Business books columnist Richard Pachter selects a new book for the club every month. On a first-come, first-served basis, a limited number of members can get a free copy by e-mailing rap@richardpachter.com with the member's name, address and phone number. Readers who do not get a free book in the mail are invited to buy their own copies and send their reviews to the same e-mail address.