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Evernote CEO Phil Libin: A Great Leader Knows When To Ditch The Magic Tricks
Phil Libin is the serial entrepreneur who founded Evernote, a software application that helps people remember things, by syncing notes, photos, and appointments across devices. He spoke with Inc....
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$300,000 A Year 'Orphan Drugs' Are Becoming A Hugely Profitable Business
For many years, pharmaceutical research strategy was all about chasing big blockbusters in huge markets like diabetes and heart disease. Now, many of those drugs have lost patent protection, and...
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How Companies Can Stop Employees They Don't Promote From Quitting
Losing out on a promotion is tough enough. But being passed over for a top-level position in favor of another candidate — either external or internal — can be a deal breaker for even the most loyal...
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GILT GROUPE FOUNDER: We're Still Underestimating The Importance Of Mobile In...
She is the Chief Strategy Officer of Gilt Groupe and one of its founding partners. Alexis Maybank's background is in e-commerce, where she was instrumental in growing E-Bay, to what it is now.With her...
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The 8 Retailers That Will Shut Down The Most Stores This Year
It is the time of year again, when America’s largest retailers release those critical holiday season figures and disclose their annual sales. A review of these numbers tells us a great deal about how...
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The 20 Most Innovative Cities In The US
Even as the economy slows, you can't take away good old American ingenuity. The U.S. is home to Silicon Valley, most of the world's health care inventions, and the largest share of the world's...
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Uniqlo CEO: I Can't Retire Because No One Else Is Worthy Of The Job
Tadashi Yanai, the chairman, president, and CEO of Uniqlo parent Fast Retailing, has a problem with his succession plan.He doesn't have one.That's not because he's not trying. He simply doesn't think...
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Seemingly Irrelevant Ideas Can Spark Breakthroughs
At Reebok, the cushioning in a best-selling basketball shoe reflects technology borrowed from intravenous fluid bags. Semiconductor firm Qualcomm's revolutionary color display technology is rooted in...
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JOB OF THE WEEK: Director of Operations, Retail
Check out the Business Insider Jobs section >>As part of our new partnership with CareerBuilder.com, each week we'll feature one of the awesome jobs advertised on the Business Insider jobs...
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Happiness Is Not The Best Way To Measure Success
Should happiness or productivity be the measure of whether you’ve lived a good life?Author and career coach Marty Nemko thinks that the answer is productivity. As he points out in his latest book...
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The 'Big Secret' Of Baskin-Robbins' Business Is Ice Cream Cakes (DNKN)
Dunkin' Brands CEO Nigel Travis went on Mad Money with Jim Cramer on CNBC to talk about his company and he had some things to say about his ice cream seller Baskin-Robbins.Travis declared...
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The 15 Most Impressive Students At MIT Right Now
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is the best college in America for many reasons.It has outstanding faculty, a top-notch engineering program, and alumni who have gone on to become...
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How To Kill Off Office Politics
Ah, office politics. I have worked at many large companies in the course of my career and one of the main reasons that I enjoy being in a smaller organization is the lack of politics. Don't get me...
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People Project Their Insecurities Onto The Things They Own
Some of the most successful brands in the world make the idea of "ownership" central to their products and marketing. Apple's products, for example, are portrayed as highly customizable and personal,...
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Here's How JCPenney's Mass Elimination Of Salon Receptionists Went Down
JCPenney told all of its salon receptionists that their positions are being eliminated on March 10. They'll be replaced with "fresh out of school" designers with cosmetology licenses.It was all...
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The 'End-Of-History Illusion' Makes Us Terrible At Planning For The Future
The narrator of Joseph O'Neill's 2008 novel Netherland, a banker who has lived in both London and New York, seems permanently torn between the two – not merely as places to live, but because they...
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There's One Huge Myth About 'Flattened' Companies
One of the most celebrated and discussed corporate strategy techniques is the "flatter" or delayered hierarchy, the most common examples being new tech companies like Google and a bevy of startups. The...
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ANDREESSEN HOROWITZ: Here's The Magic Formula For Building Massive Companies...
The founding partner of Silicon Valley investment firm Andreessen Horowitz, Ben Horowitz, recently gave a great presentation at the DLD conference in Munich.Ben explained how Andreessen Horowitz...
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A Tiny Subset Of US Cities Create The Vast Majority Of Inventions
Natural resources are one way for countries to grow, but that's an extremely volatile thing to bet long-term economic growth on. Australia is a prime example, at least for the moment. Cost advantage...
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20 Tech Companies That Pay Interns Boatloads Of Money
If you intern for a high-profile tech company, you can make more money than the average US citizen.Facebook, for example, pays its average intern $6,056 per month. That ends up being a base salary of...
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