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Inside The Last Surviving Punk Rock Boutique In New York City
Trash and Vaudeville, a legendary store in New York’s East Village, has been a shrine to rock and roll fashion for almost 40 years. They put the Ramones in those skintight black jeans, and helped...
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Instead Of Telling Jokes At The Water Cooler, Japanese Workers Tell Stories...
Instead of telling jokes to break the ice at the workplace, Japanese workers share stories of personal failure or embarrassment with one another to get to know their co-workers. The "shippai dan" (or...
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This Teamsters Memo Shows How The Threat Of A Union Strike Could Seal...
The growing bankruptcy battle between Hostess management and its 19,000 employees could come to a head next month when a bankruptcy judge rules on the company's request to scrap its current employee...
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INSTANT MBA: Assemble A Dream Team
Today's advice comes from Dennis Goin's column at Forbes. "Leaders cannot implement new strategies on their own. As one former first lady said, “It takes a village.” Or as we at Kotter International...
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Meet The Mysterious 58-Year-Old Monk Who's Making Billions From 5-Hour Energy
5-Hour Energy has been a gigantic success, creating its own niche of energy drinks that has inspired a plethora of copycats. It now has a dominant 90 percent market share in the energy shot industry,...
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This Startup's Revenue Exploded From ~ $10 To ~$30 Million Last Year
No, Thrillist won't be eyeing an IPO anytime soon. But its business has grown leaps and bounds in the past year. We spoke with cofounder Ben Lerer who updated us on all of the numbers. In the past...
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66% Of Customers Switched Service Providers In 2011 Over Frustrating Experiences
Consumers don't settle for dissatisfying service, research shows. Last year, two-thirds of consumers switched providers in at least one industry because of poor customer service, according to the...
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Now You Can Buy Your Very Own 'Louis Vuitton' Condoms
Today everyone was talking about Louis Vuitton condoms on Twitter. If you're willing to spend $68 for a twelve pack, you might be disappointed, as they are not actually associated with the company but...
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Arby's Is Planning A Total Relaunch — New Menu, New Logo, New Ads — For Q3
Arby's is about to roll out a dramatic new relaunch of the entire company pegged to the Olympics in Q3, according to the company's new chief marketing officer, Russ Klein.Klein told us the relaunch...
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INFOGRAPHIC: This Is How Harvard Spends The $3.8 Billion It Hauls In Each Year
It costs, on average, $54,561 in tuition and fees to go to Harvard University. The school's total operating revenue in 2011 was a massive $3.8 billion. But where does all of that money go? The folks...
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Flexible Hours Aren't Working As Well As Companies Say
Flexible work hours are the new sought-after benefit in the workplace, but the only professionals it's really helping are those in law, medicine, academia and technology. Aside from these people,...
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The Best And Worst Things About Being A Billionaire: A Q&A With Mark Cuban
At our IGNITION conference last fall, Mark Cuban summed up his life in one quip: "Someone has to be the world's luckiest person!" Cuban certainly could be the world's "luckiest man," but that would...
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If You Want An Immediate 'No,' Start An Investor Pitch Like This
We conducted a Q&A with billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban. He's a judge on ABC's Shark Tank and he is an angel investor, so he has seen a lot of startup pitches. We asked Cuban about the worst...
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20 Ways The Recession Has Changed How Young Adults See The World
It's hard to be a young adult these days, according to a report released this morning by the Pew Research Center. Suffering from shockingly high rates of unemployment, millennials have harder lives...
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Self-Employed? Here's What You Can And Can't Deduct From Your Taxes
For the more than 14 million self-employed Americans toiling away in home offices across the country, tax season comes with its own set of headaches. First you've got to know what you're up against,...
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Meet T-Mobile's Gorgeous Girl In Pink: 23-Year-Old Carly Foulkes
The T-Mobile girl is more than just a pink dress. Her name is Carly Foulkes, and the graphic novel-reading, skateboard-loving, video-game playing, 23-year-old isn't your typical...
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How McDonald's Burgers Coaxed A Naked Man Down From A California Radio Tower
McDonald's burgers may have literally been the difference between life and death for one Arizona man who had scaled a downtown Los Angeles radio tower, Andrew Blankstein at The Los Angeles Times...
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How Kate Middleton Saved Pantyhose With 'The Duchess Effect'
This post originally appeared at GlobalPost Kate Middleton isn't known for being flashy. You won't see her wearing something out of Lady Gaga's closet, or even sporting stilettos that have over a...
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Companies Fall Apart When People Make This One Mistake
I've written before about the importance of sleep. Tired brains lose their capacity to think critically, to evaluate data, and to understand the meaning of evidence. But chronic fatigue in the...
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INSTANT MBA: Know When To Change Your Corporate Strategy
Today's advice comes from William Lambert, president and CEO of Mine Safety Appliances Co., at Smart Business. “Most businesses have a core that has been very successful in the past and where so much...
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