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How Much You Study In College Determines What You'll Get Paid For The Rest Of...
College students are spending a lot less time studying these days. In 1961, full-time students devoted 40 hours per week to academics. Now they're spending closer to 25 (via The New York Times). This...
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Cheetos Lip Balm Anyone? Check Out These Ridiculous Brand Extensions
This post originally appeared at Mental Floss. When I heard about the Burger King Whopper Bar, my immediate thought was that it wouldn’t be the first place I’d go for a cocktail. See The 8 Bizarre...
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Wellness Programs Make 45% Of Employees Healthier, But The Benefits Could Go...
Those extra trips to the gym courtesy of your employer may have done more good for your health than you realize, a new study finds. Forty-one percent of workers said wellness programs made them...
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Sam Adams' New Crowdsourced Beer Is A Really Smart Marketing Campaign
Sam Adams has a new social media marketing ploy up its sleeve -- it's crowdsourcing a new beer (via Creativity Online). The campaign is called the Crowd Craft Project. All you have to go is go onto...
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7 Smart Ways To Come Up With More Ideas At Work
You don't have to be a genius to come up with the best ideas that get startups off the ground and drive companies like Google and Apple. In fact, anyone can learn how to generate more big ideas. In...
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The 10 Companies That Invented The Most Things Last Year
Each year, the U.S. Patent Office and Trademark Office awards hundreds of thousands of patents to American and global companies. Last week, IFI Claims Patent Services, a producer of patent databases,...
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Hey CEOs, THIS Is The Right Way To Apologize For A Mistake
Companies screw up all the time, and have to write up statements to apologize for their mistakes. But all too frequently, the apologies are weak, conditional and completely insincere. Saturday night,...
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Building America's 4G Network Could Create Hundreds Of Thousands Of Jobs In...
Don't feel like upgrading from 3G to 4G wireless technology? You could be playing a role in the country's high unemployment rate. Washington think tank NDN recently released a study that compared...
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GoDaddy Defends Sexy Strategy, Leaks Super Bowl Ad Of Danica Patrick And...
GoDaddy has "leaked" one of its two Super Bowl 2012 ads, and the spot -- featuring spokeswoman Danica Patrick and health guru Jillian Michaels painting a naked model like a race car -- falls in line...
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Here's How Google Search Is Destroying Our Memory
"We are becoming symbiotic with our computer tools, growing into interconnected systems that remember less by knowing information than by knowing where the information can be found." This sentence...
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Don't Fall Into These 6 Traps If You Want Meetings To Be Productive
Years ago, I worked for a manager that was the poster child of buzzwords. He loved slipping “cones of precision” and “silos” and “drill down” and… well, let’s just stop there. (Oh, he also bought one...
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Here Are The Tests You'll Have To Pass Before You Get A Job In Finance
The transition from business to profession for financial services has been brief (a century and a half), while law and medicine developed over millenia. Industrialization, agricultural development,...
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How Sam Palsimano Transformed IBM In Ten Years
When Sam Palmisano retired as CEO of IBM on Dec. 31, it marked the end of one of the most remarkable tenures in corporate history. Over his decade as IBM's leader, he made a number of moves, each...
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Target Realizes There Are Only Two Ways To Compete With The Internet (TGT)
Target is sick and tired of customers who browse its stores and then go and buy products for cheaper prices from online retailers. To reduce so-called "showrooming," Target has asked its vendors to...
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A Guide On How To Build A Proper Brand On Facebook
Learn more about digital commerce and social media on Feb. 7, 2012 at the Social Commerce Summit. Meet leaders in the space and boost your ROI and market knowledge.Most brands out there spend their...
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How To Exit A Conversation And Leave A Killer, Lasting Impression
Professional conversations are a lot trickier than they first appear. Most of us worry about what we're going to say to keep the conversation interesting, but the beginning and ending are what makes...
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Lead With A Higher Purpose: Here's What Sets The Best CEOs Apart
Is there such a thing as a consistent pattern of successful global leadership? To answer this question, during the last few years, we have met with about 30 CEOs who pass two critical tests for...
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11 Rising Tech Stars To Watch In 2012
Find out more about the future of mobile and companies like Facebook, Yahoo, Zynga, Disney, NBC and more at IGNITION West!A few people in tech had amazing 2011s and they've started the new year with a...
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Finally! The Agenda Is Up For IGNITION West And It's Pretty Cool
It's not real until you can see and measure it, right? That's why we're excited to announce we've posted the agenda for IGNITION West, Business Insider's major conference taking place March 21 in San...
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What It's Like To Get Demoted By Jack Welch
Former GE CEO Jack Welch was known for being a tough and ruthless boss. Mark Little experienced this first-hand when Welch demoted him in the mid-1990s. He had his first big executive job as VP of...
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