PERS benefits better than neighboring states
Oregon public employees get better retirement benefits and contribute much less toward them than in neighboring states, a new PSU study found.
Oregon to release budget on March 4
The Oregon Legislature’s chief budget writers will reveal their next two-year budget on March 4.
Salesforce picks Hillsboro
Salesforce decided to build its new Oregon offices in Hillsboro instead of Portland.
Integra Telecom borrows $785M
Integra Telecom borrowed $785 million to refinance its debt, freeing up millions for operations and investment.
Electric vehicle fee considered
Oregon is looking for a new funding source to pay for its road as high gas mileage vehicles increase.
Oregon bills target mining
Three bills in the Oregon legislature are being branded as an all-out war on mining by the Bohemia Mine Owners Association.
New home sales surge
Foxbusiness.com: New U.S. single-family home sales surged to their highest level in 4-1/2 years in January.
Yahoo bans working from home
Washingtonpost.com: The last organization you might expect to stop its workers from telecommuting is a Silicon Valley tech company.
Lost continent discovered in Indian Ocean
Slate: Evidence of a vanished “microcontinent” northeast of Madagascar has been published in a scientific paper by an international research team.
Strategic execution- outside the core
When I work with senior teams, they share a common bias across firms and industries — they over-value the uniqueness of their industry, firm, or niche, and they over-value innovative changes in their self-identified Core Business. And they fail to put appropriate focus on off-the-shelf innovations available in the non-core processes.