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Dealing With The Yakuza Prepared Tepco's Chairman For Japan's Nuclear Disaster
Katsuhiko Shimokobe, the new Chairman at Tepco, assumed one of the toughest jobs in the word last June when he decided to lead the company whose nuclear plant nearly melted down after last year's...
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The 10 Most Innovative Companies In The World
Booz & Co. just came out with its annual ranking of the world's 1000 biggest R&D spenders, which includes a survey of more than 700 senior R&D executives asking them what companies are the...
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Ousted Apple Retail Chief John Browett Made $3 Million For Six Months Of Work...
When former Dixons retail executive John Browett signed on with Apple in April, he got a big potential payday: 100,000 shares of Apple in the form of restricted stock units, or RSUs, vesting over five...
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The Perks Of Being One Of The World's Most Elite Frequent Flyers
New York attorney Elliott Kroll earned a million miles and he never even gamed the system. The business traveler has never done a "mile run," nor has he signed up for a rewards credit card that would...
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4 Ways To Keep Employees From Losing Motivation
Things always move rapidly at the beginning of a project. Everyone's excited, and it's easy to see how far you've come from nothing. But a month later, the excitement is gone, everybody has slowed down...
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Looking For A New Startup Idea? Try Farming
In an auditorium last week at the UCLA Anderson School of Management, startup companies sought out investors to help take their ideas to the next level. This wasn't a tech conference. Venture...
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Workers Start Slacking Off When Their Bosses Suddenly Get More Controlling...
Firms build teams because they work. Once people get to know each other better, they can divide work more efficiently and even build motivation through a sense of teamwork. New research from Gerhard...
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Why I Never Let Employees Negotiate a Raise
What would happen if you got to work one day, went into the kitchen, and saw a list of your employees' salaries taped to the fridge? Would you freak out? Would you expect to find half of your staff...
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SECRET DIARY OF A BOARD BABE: I Have Well And Truly Burned Out
Secret diary of a board babe: After six months of working flat out without a break, our woman at the top reveals the more ugly side of business by saying she has lost her drive and patience – and is...
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US Airlines Started A Smart New Policy During Hurricane Sandy
If past experience with severe weather is anything to go by, one could be forgiven for expecting that the 16,000 flight cancellations caused by Hurricane Sandy would have caused chaos at airports. With...
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Headhunters Say Bankers Need To Learn Mandarin To Get Hired
Banks are increasingly demanding that their employees in Asia can speak Mandarin. Bankers looking to Asia will no longer be able to rely upon just speaking English to land a job, according to a leading...
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The 20 Biggest Corporate R&D Spenders In The World
Every year management consulting Booz & Co. puts together a comprehensive report on the world's 1000 biggest spenders on research and development, and the connection between that spending and...
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Service Alert: BI Emails Are Spotty
Some of your favorite Business Insider newsletters may not be working this week (including Charts of the Day and 10 Things), and others, including "Select" emails, may be late. We apologize for the...
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Why Millennials Will Probably End Up Saving The Economy
Young people are the lazy, smelly scapegoat of the recession. They're not working, they're living at home, they're constantly complaining about their debt, they're not buying cars or houses, and...
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Meet Eddy Cue, The iTunes Mastermind Who Now Has To Fix Siri And Apple Maps...
With the departure of John Browett and Scott Forstall, Eddy Cue, a longtime Apple executive who led its transformation into the world's largest music retailer, now has full control over Siri and...
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You have a chance to win a ticket to Business Insider's IGNITION. Any newsletter subscriber is eligible. Become one now and you'll have a chance to be there when we bring together key stakeholders and...
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Starbucks Has A Brilliant Strategy For Dominating The Chinese Market (SBUX)
Starbucks has been aggressive about changing when it enters new markets. It recently moved to a structure where regional presidents are almost CEOs of their own companies, because they better...
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It Takes More Than A Discount To Get People Excited
These days — as sites like Groupon have shown us — it takes more than a great deal to really hook a customer. In fact, it's more about offering "insider access," says Sarah Chubb, president of Gilt...
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The World’s Biggest R&D Spenders Still Think They’re Horrible At Bringing...
This year's Booz & Co. report on the world's largest R&D spenders focused on the "front end" of innovation. This is essentially the very beginning of the process, or the idea creation phase....
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KRAWCHECK: Here Are The Lessons You Learn During A Crisis
This post originally appeared on LinkedIn. Follow Sallie on LinkedIn As Hurricane Sandy makes her exit, she highlights the challenges and pitfalls of leading through crisis. My first turn-around...
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