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Why Growing Companies Often See Their Most Innovative Employees Bolt

If you’re concerned about remaining scrappy and innovative as your head count grows, you should be — especially if going public is your endgame.Shai Bernstein, assistant professor of finance at the...

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Lululemon Faces Lawsuit For Raising Executive Pay A Week Before The Sheer...

A retirement fund for police and firefighters is suing Lululemon after the company raised executive bonuses a week before recalling its yoga pants for being too sheer. The suit, filed by the Hallandale...

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MONEYBALL AT WORK: They've Discovered What Really Makes A Great Employee

Hiring decisions have always been limited to a few imperfect factors, including what appears on a resume and what impression a candidate gives off in an informal interview.That's all changing.As Dan...

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Business Insider Is Hiring A Head Of Business Affairs

Business Insider is looking for a skilled dealmaker to lead our booming business development area. The key responsibilities of the position are to negotiate and manage audience- and revenue-generating...

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There Are Only 4 Types Of Jobs In The World

For the past 30 years my company has been involved in creating over 2,500 different performance-based job descriptions that define the actual work a person needs to do to be considered successful.Based...

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Midtown Staffing Firm Finds Elite Assistants For City's Kingmakers

MIDTOWN — It's not every day your boss asks you to hold one of her eggs in a test tube.But in 2009, an assistant to one of the most powerful women in the world stood there in an examination room,...

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Tesla Just Hired The Man Who Created The Best Aston Martin Ever

Tesla has hired Chris Porritt, Aston Martin's Chief Engineer of Vehicle Engineering, to be its Vice President of Vehicle Engineers, the electric car company announced this afternoon.Porritt is the man...

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American Apparel's CEO Is Ripping On His Industry's Practices After The...

The labor practices of big apparel manufacturers have come under criticism again after a building housing several factories in Bangladesh collapsed, leaving some 622 people dead.The factories produced...

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Computers Know More About You Than You Think

On July 16th, 1945, when the world’s first nuclear explosion shook the plains of New Mexico, J. Robert Oppenheimer, it’s creator, quoted from the Bhagavad Gita, “Now I am become Death, the destroyer of...

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Facebook Makes Fortune's List Of The 500 Biggest Companies By Revenue

NEW YORK (AP) — Wal-Mart Stores Inc. once again leads Fortune's list of the 500 biggest U.S. companies by revenue, as the world's biggest retailer succeeded in posting strong growth despite a...

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How Facebook Helped Screw Up P&G's Ad Budget (PG, FB)

A year ago, Procter & Gamble CEO Bob McDonald told Wall Street that a key part of his cost-savings program would include cutting 5,700 jobs and using more social media like Facebook and Google,...

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The Difference Between A Startup Failing And Succeeding Could Be Your Mental...

Jason Freedman has started multiple companies and gone through Paul Graham's world-renowned startup accelerator program, Y Combinator.Y Combinator offers startups a lot of benefits: an amazing network...

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For The First Time At A Shareholder Meeting, Jamie Dimon Might Actually Be In...

Every year JP Morgan shareholders get together for their annual kumbaya meeting on the state of the bank, and every year a few agitators propose that CEO Jamie Dimon give up his position as Chairman of...

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Why The Economy Needs Boomers To Work Past 70

If you imagine that age 81 means shuffleboard, golf carts, and sitting on the beach, David Mintz will make you reconsider.The founder and CEO of food brand Tofutti, Mintz works 15-hour shifts,...

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How To Perfectly Tailor Your Resume For Each Wall Street Bank

If you want to work in banking but are uncertain as to what the biggest banks look for when they hire, we may have some answers for you.We’ve combed through the eFinancialCareers database to look for...

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Most Data Isn’t 'Big,' And Businesses Are Wasting Money Pretending It Is

Big data! If you don’t have it, you better get yourself some. Your competition has it, after all. Bottom line: If your data is little, your rivals are going to kick sand in your face and steal your...

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EX-GOOGLER: Follow These 14 Tips At Your New Job

Taking a new job can be exciting, but also a bit nerve-wracking.You want to do well, stand out, but also be a team player.Back in 1995, Times Mirror Company President Al Casey shared some thoughts on...

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19 Reasons It's Horrible To Grow Up Gifted

If you're born gifted, life is handed to you on a silver platter, right?Not according to several Reddit users who answered the question, "[For those] labeled as gifted children, do you think the label...

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Big Companies Can't Accomodate Big Ideas

Startups may be on the decline but they’ll never completely disappear. No matter how well large companies master innovation, startups are the best—if not only—place to foster the really big ideas.So...

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Almost Half Of Recent Grads Regret Choosing Their School Or Major

There's an ongoing debate about whether the investment in college is worth it, often spearheaded by employers, politicians, or entrepreneurs like Peter Thiel.We don't spend enough time asking the...

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