Finding your place in today's economy is a bit like assembling a LEGO set without the instructions — even if you're trying your best, the future result isn't entirely clear.

Humor may still be alive in the workplace, but many employees say it suddenly disappears when the boss walks into the room. A new national survey reported at Monster.com finds that workers are ...

Our own research—and a growing body of work by other scholars—shows that it’s harder to be funny than most people think. This class—developed by Stanford lecturers and comedians from Comedy Central ...

Humor is a secret weapon in business and life. That is the subtitle of Humor, Seriously, a book by Jennifer Aaker and Naomi Bagdonas. As consultants and business school professors, Aaker and Bagdonas ...

We can all relate to the second-hand embarrassment that creeps in when a manager attempts to make light of a bad situation and the joke falls flat. Crickets. After all, we expect our leaders to be the ...

How can you get ahead in your career and still enjoy the ride? Comedy works by bending and breaking norms – and when those rules aren’t broken in just the right way, it’s more likely to harm your ...