Home Bancorp Announces 2010 Second Quarter Results Cheap Accutane and Approval of Stock Repurchase Program Home Bancorp, Inc. , the parent company for Home Bank , a Federally chartered savings bank headquartered in Lafayette, Louisiana , announced net income of $1.5 million for the second quarter of 2010, an increase of $621,000, or 74%, compared [...]
Scott Shane, Professor of Entrepreneurial Studies at Case Western Reserve University, has an illuminating post on Small Business Trends this week in which, based on U.S. Census data of 6-year-old businesses, he shows that the typical (or median) entrepreneur’s sales are below the average (or mean) sales in 9 sectors. Shane writes that this distinction [...]
Our past annual conference speaker Sue Shellenbarger of The Wall Street Journal wrote a blog today on a notable development when it comes to the intersection of workplace culture practices and the federal Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA). Shellenbarger notes that with Australia now requiring their employers to offer paid leave, the U.S. is [...]
Earlier this month I shared data from our 2010 Top Small Company Workplaces employee engagement research which showed that the 20 winners of our award this year had better (which is to say, lower) average 2009 turnover than the 20 finalists. But how do the winners compare to their industry? From the preliminary research we’ve [...]
Some of the most (and most vociferous) comments I’ve seen related to the announcement of our 2010 Top Small Company Workplaces last week in the June issue of Inc. Magazine – firms whose human capital strategies contribute to their revenue growth and profitability – appear in response to this post by Manish Mehta on The Jets Stream [...]
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