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Whitman’s cash-out legacy at eBay

Investors will be keeping an eye on eBay (EBAY) when the market opens Thursday. Shares in the online auction site dropped 7 percent in late trading Wednesday after the company posted a round of weak quarterly results and confirmed that CEO Meg Whitman will step aside at the end of March. “Meg’s passion for all things eBay changed the world,” Chairman Pierre Omidyar said in Wednesday’s press release. “With humor, smarts and unflappable determination, Meg took a small, barely known online auction site and helped it become an integral part of our lives.”
Despite Whitman’s many accomplishments, she leaves the company at a time when it’s facing tough challenges from the likes of Google (GOOG). Fortune’s Adam Lashinsky gave incoming chief John Donohue high marks for his candor and for his determination to shake up eBay, and noted that Whitman was noncommital about her plans beyond this year.
Whatever Whitman plans to do, she won’t have to worry about money. Since Halloween she has sold 2.56 million shares under a pre-arranged stock-sale plan, reaping profits of around $40 million. Over that same span eBay shares have lost a quarter of their value, wiping out some $12 billion in value. While no one can doubt Whitman has earned her keep over the years, the recent rush to cash out doesn’t exactly wind up her tenure on a high note.

Recession 2008: How bad it can get?

The sputtering U.S. economy has gotten everyone from the financial markets to the Federal Reserve to Congress in a panic.

But here's a disheartening message for those already worried about economic growth -- it could get much worse. Most economists who believe a recession is already here or at least near are looking for a relatively short and mild downturn, perhaps lasting only two or three quarters.

But many of those same economists say they also can...

more...http://money.cnn.com/2008/01/23/news/economy/how_bad/index.htm?postversion=2008012405

Outlook 2008: Will the US Economy become Decoupled?

Despite a still-slumping housing market, an escalating credit crunch and spiraling inflationary pressures, the U.S. economy should still manage to advance at a 1% to 2% clip in 2008.
While investors might view that as bad news, there’s actually a positive twist, since it means that U.S. economy will likely dodge the recession that some observers have feared.
Even so, the U.S. economy won’t be in the investment spotlight in 2008, and investors will see the first signs of the "decoupling" of the U.S. market from those overseas. While the United States is narrowly dodging recession, other global economies will be advancing by as much as 10%. The emergence of a growing middle class in such key markets as China, India and Eastern Europe will make global dependence on the U.S. economy a thing of the past. With tens of millions of newly minted consumers ready to spend in China, that country could easily weather a U.S. downturn.
Even with decoupling, U.S. investors still can profit from markets abroad - regardless of what’s going on here at home…

Retail best practices in store labor management

Excited new members from the U.S. and International line up to participate in study and leverage retail best practices in store labor management. NEW YORK, Jan 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Retail Benchmarks, Inc., an independentfirm dedicated to defining best practices in the retail industry, registeredover 100 new members at NRF 2006, and had a very successful launch of theirnewest Retail Revelations(TM) Benchmark Study, "Store Labor Management". The Store Labor Management study is designed to help retailers understandnot only how they compare to similar retailers in store labor management, butmore importantly, how to become more efficient in their use of labor in thestores while maintaining sales and customer service. As with all RetailRevelations studies(TM), this one will define best practices in store labormanagement through benchmarking results and the correlation of performanceresults to related process characteristics and metrics. "It is easy to understand why we received such an enthusiastic response atNRF for our Store Labor Management Study. Labor is one of the three largestexpense categories for a retailer. Store labor efficiency, designed to promotesales and maintain long-term customer loyalty, is measured in terms of laborcost, sales productivity, and customer service," says Marianne Gregory,President of Retail Benchmarks. "Similar retailers need to know how theycompare in payroll expense, but more importantly, retailers want to know howthey can be more effective in their use of labor at the stores." "Simply knowing something is broken isn't going to really change aretailer's bottom line. Helping them understand what dials to turn to fixit - will," says Brenda Moncla, VP Research Technology at Retail Benchmarks."Our comprehensive retail model includes the definition of all retail missioncritical processes, their relationships and intersections, and how they driveperformance metrics. By leveraging our unique retail data model and datawarehousing techniques, we are able to correlate and link the information,ultimately proving the connection between the process characteristics andresults - the basis of true Best Practices. After all, just because everybodydoes something doesn't make it a best practice." About Retail Benchmarks, Inc. Retail Benchmarks, Inc., an associate member of NRF (the National RetailFederation) with offices in Atlanta, Chicago, and Sacramento, is anindependent company dedicated to defining retail best practices and capturingretail-specific process measurement information that highlights areas ofopportunity and improvement for its member companies. Retail Benchmarksmembership is FREE. All Retail Benchmark members have immediate access toRetail Connections(TM), an online member-only forum where retailers candiscuss and share their ideas, questions, and experiences with completesecurity and anonymity. Retail Benchmarks members can also browse the RetailConnections library and download any of the process focused white papers fromleading retail industry experts and thought leaders. Retail Benchmarks alsoprovides its members with the opportunity to participate in RetailRevelations(TM), a series of benchmarking studies that provide retailmanagement process performance expectations and expertise from best-in-classretailers. Retail Revelations(TM) gives members a unique perspective thatenables them to not only compare their bottom-line results to standard retailperformance metrics of similar retailers, but to leverage their ability tobenchmark their key process related characteristics with their peers to betterunderstand the specific actions that can be taken to improve outcomes. Theprice of each benchmarking study is dependent on the level of reportingpurchased. Results of each study are only available to the studyparticipants. Visit http://www.labormanagement-technowizard3.blogspot.com/ for more information.

Labor Management Strategies

The subject of Labor Management Strategies is synonymous with Human Capital Management and is a topic of great importance in today's business world especially as it relates to businesses wanting to realize hard and soft dollar cost savings within their workforce. This topic applies to all businesses from small mom-and-pops to major corporations and is part of a fast growing business sector within the Human Capital Management sector.

As companies around the world continue to compete for raw work force talent to deliver quality value to their customers, maximize their ROI and struggle to find new and more innovative ways to realize hard and soft sollar cost savings within their budgets and bottom lines, the workforce itself is no exception and is not being over looked.

Through performance metric programs, reporting and efficient management of up and running programs within companies and their permanent and contingent workforce, the subject of saving money without losing talent is a hot topic.

As technology has evolved, it has allowed an ever-increasing "remote" workforce capability with an ever-increasing utilization of international talent without the need for hard dollar overhead costs of "in house" labor workforce, the ability to monitor, track, and measure performance has become an awesome means to control labor costs and increase value to the customer.

Look for future blogs on how this is being achieved today!