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GRADUATION SPEECH: How To Fight The Culture Of B.S.
This item has been excerpted from the prepared Commencement Address to the graduates of Pitzer College in Claremont, Calif., on May 18, 2013.I recently turned thirty, which I know seems like a...
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SEX AT WORK: The Reality
You can't talk about it or mention it, but you can certainly think about it, and according to a new column by Liz Ryan in BusinessWeek, a lot of people do."The Truth About Sex At Work..." Ms. Ryan...
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Why Americans Hate Internet Service Providers More Than Any Other Industry
In the latest update of its survey of American consumers about the businesses they use most, the American Consumer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) tested Internet service providers for the first time. It...
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6 Rules That Should Be Guiding Your Career
Daniel Pink’s The Adventures of Johnny Bunko: The Last Career Guide You’ll Ever Need conveys a number of principles about the world of work that everyone should take note of.Why? Though Pink doesn’t...
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How Email App Mailbox Turned A Desperate Situation Into An ~$100 Million Exit...
In January, an email organization app called Mailbox launched, and it promised to help users reach inbox zero. Thirty-seven days later, cloud storage company Dropbox acquired it for a reported $100...
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Millennials Have Their Own Definition of Entrepreneurship
By 2025, Gen Y is going to make up 75% of the global workforce and their independent-thinking and entrepreneurial mindset is going to change the future of the workplace. Unless employers can understand...
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How Warby Parker Took Its Online Sales Model To Brick-And-Mortar
When Warby Parker opened a flagship store in New York City, many people were shocked. No one expected the digital eyewear disruptor to expand their business to a bricks-and-mortar store. Speaking at...
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Employees Are Incredibly Optimistic About Working For These 10 Tech Companies...
Glassdoor just released its ranking of the top 10 tech companies with the best business outlook in the next six months, as rated by the firms' own staff.Employees that work at these companies are...
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8 Ways To Dump Spreadsheets And Manage Your Expenses Better
This post is sponsored by Concur.The spreadsheet is the Swiss Army knife of small-business programs: It serves almost every function you can think of. But using a spreadsheet to manage expense...
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Abercrombie Finally Apologizes For Excluding Large Women
Abercrombie & Fitch has finally apologized for the exclusion of large women from its clothing line. “We look forward to continuing this dialogue and taking concrete steps to demonstrate our...
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Why Pretty Much Everyone Thinks They're Underpaid
Whether you are a shelf stocker at Walmart, a second year associate at a consulting company or an equity analyst at an investment bank, you may feel that you are not adequately compensated for the work...
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There Were Huge Construction Flaws In The Bangladesh Factory That Collapsed
"Extremely poor quality" construction materials and other irregularities are to blame for the April factory collapse in Bangladesh that killed more than 1,100 people.The collapse has been called the...
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Why It's So Hard To Figure Out A Good Price For Public Wi-Fi
When I was in grad school in the early 90s, it was a big deal when the business school installed a mess of new pay phones — directly addressing a bottleneck that frustrated MBA students trying to...
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How To Win The Battle Between Your Present And Future Self
We all struggle with giving in to immediate gratification and making decisions that are good for the long term.Microsoft Principal Researcher Daniel Goldstein spoke about this tension in an excellent...
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Three Stories About Steve Jobs, Einstein, And Ben Franklin Prove That...
There are few commencement speeches that last beyond the day they're given.One is Steve Jobs' 2005 address to Stanford's graduating class, where he famously used three stories to memorably define his...
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McDonald's Gives Cleveland Hero Charles Ramsey Free Food For A Year
McDonald's has offered Cleveland kidnapping hero Charles Ramsey free food for a year."We can confirm that the local owner-operators of the McDonald’s restaurants in Mr. Ramsey’s neighborhood have...
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The Best Way To Test Yourself Is To Start From Nothing
Piers Fawkes, founder and editor-in-chief of trends analysis site PSFK, knows what it takes to make something out of nothing.The British entrepreneur started working in the digital space in 1996 —...
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17 Stanford Business Students Who Are Going To Change The World
Stanford's Graduate School of Business is the most selective MBA program in the world, accepting only 7% of the people who apply. Harvard accepts 12%. It's ranked 1st by US News and Business Insider,...
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Arianna Huffington's Advice To Tumblr's David Karp: 'Soak It All In, Then...
David Karp, founder of $1.1 billion Tumblr, attended the Webby Awards Tuesday night.There, he received some advice from a fellow New York entrepreneur who sold her company for a boatload of cash,...
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I'm A Woman, And I Don't Think Paul Tudor Jones' Comments On Woman Traders...
Since the Washington Post published a video of Paul Tudor Jones discussing the biggest killers in trading success— divorce and having a baby — people have been concentrating on his latter point, and...
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