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When It's Time To Fire A CEO
Right or wrong, chief executives tend to take the blame during industry downturns. New research from Northwestern's Camelia Kuhnen finds that firm heads are most likely to get the axe when they falter...
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There’s No Such Thing As An Original Business Idea
One of the concerns I hear voiced most frequently by prospective entrepreneurs—and it’s usually first timers—is how they can engage potential funding sources, strategic partners and employees in...
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Why Managers Need To Become More Transparent
Successful management is about making hard decisions, but no matter how hard an executive works, the success of any initiative is a collaborative process. Strategy+Business published an excerpt from a...
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5 Proven Hiring Tips From A Top Recruiting Firm
This article originally appeared on American Express Open Forum. Hiring the right people will eventually contribute to the overall success of a business. On the other hand, a bad employee has the...
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Former Hacker Reveals How Business Owners Should Protect Their Web Sites
Nearly eighteen years ago, Kevin Mitnick was arrested in his North Carolina home after a heavily-publicized pursuit by the FBI. Mitnick was wanted for computer hacking — he bypassed security systems...
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How Americans Spend All Of Their Time [CHARTS]
You get 24 hours a day. How you spend them, to a degree, is up to you. When you look at different groups across the nation, however, patterns emerge in how people spend time. The Bureau of Labor...
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Watch Out For This Dangerous New Type Of Activist Investor
One of the year's most fascinating corporate sagas is about to come to an end. Xstrata's shareholders were scheduled to vote today on a proposed merger with Glencore, which could create an $86 billion...
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Improve Your Life Every Day With The '20 Second Rule'
Look at the good habits you want to develop and see if there's a way you can make them easier to begin by 20 seconds. Want to stop a bad habit? Increase the time it takes to initiate it by 20 seconds....
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'Facebook's Secret Weapon' Is Coming To IGNITION
Dubbed "Facebook's secret weapon" and a "woman to watch" by the press, Facebook's VP of global marketing solutions Carolyn Everson has had a high profile since joining the social giant last spring. The...
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Howard Schultz Would Rather Have Long Lines At Starbucks Than Become A 'Fast...
Line speed matters at Starbucks. It needs to keep getting faster and more efficient, but CEO Howard Schultz has some serious concerns about the cost of serving people ultra-fast. Starbucks "knows it is...
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An Enormous Chinese Price War Backfired For Everybody Involved
Some of China's largest retailers are facing an official investigation for deceptive sales practices after a recent price war spiraled out of control. At the Wall Street Journal, Laurie Burkitt...
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Qatar Just Dominated The World's Largest Commodity Trading Company
Sept. 7 (Bloomberg) -- Glencore International Plc raised its offer for mining company Xstrata Plc by 9 percent to overcome opposition from investors including Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund to the...
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Marissa Mayer Will Pay One Yahoo Exec ~$10 Million To Stick Around (YHOO)
Normally, when a CEO takes over a company in need of a turnaround, the first move is to clean out the C-suite and replace direct reports with new people that can be trusted. Over at Yahoo, however,...
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Why Expat Businessmen Are Leaving China
Last month, Mark Kitto, a British businessman who built (and subsequently lost) an empire of English-language magazines in China, wrote a 4,000 word article for the UK's Prospect magazine explaining...
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Jeff Bezos' Explanation Of Why Amazon Charges So Little For The Kindle Fire...
On stage yesterday Jeff Bezos delivered a terrific one-line explanation for why Amazon charges so relatively little for its tablets: "We want to make money when people use our devices, not when they...
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A Former Twitter Executive Just Swept His Wife And Children Away For A...
Twitter's former VP of Communications, Sean Garrett, just returned from three months in Costa Rica. His wife quit her job as an up-and-coming financial executive for the trip. Naturally, the experience...
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How To Turn Your Family Into Old Money
Some families are born into wealth. Others create it. Will and Bill Bonner wrote Family Fortunes: How to Build Family Wealth and Hold on to It for 100 Years to teach people the latter. "Family wealth...
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LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner Shares Insights On Leadership
LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner talked with journalist Adam Bryant last night at the Director's Guild Theatre in Midtown. The interview will be posted as the first video in the the New York Times' Corner...
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6 Things You Need To Do For Your Career Really Soon
We're always reading self-help books on topics like love or happiness, so why not do something different this month and focus on your professional development? There's always room for learning, and...
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How 'Self-Serving Altruism' Can Make People Behave Unethically
Understanding the reasons people behave unethically is incredibly important for businesses. Scandals follow companies for years — legally or otherwise. While such behavior is usually assumed to be...
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