A Tough Corporate Job Asks One Question: Can You Hack It?

SAN FRANCISCO — Pity the poor chief information security officer. The profession barely existed a generation ago. But to combat the growing threat of online breaches, companies and governments are hiring executives whose main responsibility is to make sure data systems are secure. When things go wrong — and they often do — these executives

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Lower Job Churn Hurts Young Workers

By JOSH ZUMBRUN CONNECT Updated July 13, 2014 8:00 p.m. ET Quitting a job often can be a good thing. But not enough workers have been doing it. During and after the recession, the U.S. economy has been too weak for many workers to undertake the sort of job-hopping that economists say is critical to

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Microsoft to Cut Up to 18,000 Jobs

By SHIRA OVIDE CONNECT Updated July 17, 2014 8:50 p.m. ET Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Getty Images Microsoft Corp. MSFT +0.32% Chief Executive Satya Nadella recently pledged to be “bold and ambitious” to remake the company and its culture. The first task, he signaled in a memo on Thursday, would be cleaning up some of his predecessors’ messes. The recently named Microsoft chief is

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TiE launch, April – Dhaka

  The Dhaka chapter of Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE) was officially launched recently at a local hotel. TiE is the world’s largest voluntary organisation, dedicated solely to younger talents. The globally known TiE was founded in 1992 in Silicon Valley by a group of successful entrepreneurs, corporate executives, and senior professionals. Currently it has 11,000 members,

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