Q&A with Robert Smith, sovereign debt trader

Robert Smith's lifelong adventure as an emerging market debt trader has earned him nicknames like King of t...

Global attitude benefits City Furniture

City Furniture gained a boost from ''accidental'' exports, but the home furnishing giant's sales are still ...

Fast-food sellers are protected from liability

Q: We operate Taco Bell franchises in Florida. We've heard about lawsuits filed against the fast food indus...

OPINION

My View | Why rude workers should not expect to keep their jobs

Mimi Whitefield's editor's note on June 6 illustrated a not-so-uncommon Miami experience. She highlighted h...

Businesses can benefit by engaging customers in unintrusive ways

Matthew May shows how elegance is actually a matter of simplicity.

Workable niche markets are ready for harvest

Puzzled? You've got a small budget and a big marketplace. You want to stake claim to a workable target. Thi...

Bankruptcies

Recent bankruptcies for the Southern District of Florida

Follow the tweeter to more robust business

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...

COVER STORY

How mobile can healthcare be?

While Washington bubbles with talk about making healthcare available to all Americans, many desperate patie...

Space Coast economy uncertain as shuttle shuts down

Bad news for America's space shuttle program historically has been written across the sky in sudden, shocki...

Meet the Business Plan judges

BARBARA K. BOXER Boxer is the founder of Women Angels in Miami, Milwaukee and Chicago. These organizations ...

Student contest judges

LEE W. CLARK Clark has taught marketing at The New School University, Parsons School of Design, Fashion Ins...

Student contest second place: The yearbook, reinvented

In coming up with his business idea, Dagoberto Ruiz combined two of his passions: The yearbook and YouTube....

JOB FILE

Woman excels in man's world of aircraft mechanics

Aircraft technician Mayte Almeida sets an example for her co-workers.

JOB FILE

Nurse coordinates joint-care recovery

Lynn Cleveland enjoys the different types of work in her job as the joint care coordinator at North Broward...

JOB FILE

Caterer: Food just 20% of job

Bill Hansen says marketing and customer service are the really tricky parts, along with staffing.

Employment Resources

LOCAL EMPLOYMENT AGENCIES South Florida Workforce Broward Workforce One STATE AND FEDERAL SOURCE...

JOB FILE

Clerk of scales keeps track at race track

His job officially involves weighing in the jockeys, but Victor Sanchez is defacto manager of Calder's jock...

JOB FILE

It's the film editor's job to make a scene

Directors typically shoot 35 to 40 hours of footage for a two-hour film, and the editor’s job is to create ...

JOB FILE

Game technician keeps Pac Man gobbling

Robert Childs, founder of Arcade Game Sales, has built a booming business around refurbishing and reselling...

Businesses can benefit by engaging customers in unintrusive ways

Matthew May shows how elegance is actually a matter of simplicity.

Business Monday Book Club readers share their review

The title is misleading. The author is trying to make it sound like he has found a silver lining in the clo...

Join the Business Monday Book Club

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

BUSINESS BOOKS

Figure out what's what to know how to run your business

'Rethink' author recommends closely examining the end to determine the means.

BUSINESS BOOKS

Trapped in an unreal corporate reality

Our economic operating system is faulty, according to author Douglas Rushkoff.

BUSINESS BOOKS

Social media good for businesses

Three books explain the new tools that help connect companies and customers.

BUSINESS BOOKS

Economic maelstrom tough for authors

Economics stories can be unexciting, but recent books try to keep their readers awake.