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The Return Of 'Made In The USA'

Posted 08.01.2011

Read More: Productivity Rates, Reinvestment, Manufacturers, Caterpillar Inc, Yuan, NCR Corp, Georgia, Boston Consulting Group, China, General Electric Co, Wham-O, Business News

NEW YORK (Nick Zieminski) - The "Made in the USA" label may be poised for a comeback, a new study argues. The next few years will bring a wave ...

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Banks: The Dumbest Investment

Fortune | Colin Barr | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Business News, Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan Chase, Bank Investments, Bank Investing, Boston Consulting Group, Business News

Or at least, that's one reading of a survey released this week by Boston Consulting Group. It says investors would have done better over the past five...

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Fortune's Names The Best Places To Work In America

The Huffington Post | Yepoka Yeebo | Posted 01.21.2011

Read More: Nugget Markets, Wegmans Food, Boston Consulting Group, Sas, Google, Best Placs to Work, Goldman Sachs, Business News

UPDATE: This post has been corrected. Nice work if you can get it. Alongside gyms and endless supplies of free food, employees can get major perks ...

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No Fluke: Republicans Support Off-Shoring Jobs

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Supply Chain Digest, Tax Incentives, Wall Street Reform, Make It in America, Creating American Jobs and Ending Off-Shoring Act, On-Shoring, Health Care Reform, Off-Shoring, Jeremy Leonard, George Stalk, Boston Consulting Group, Manufacturers Alliance, Alliance for American Manufacturing, Business News
Leo W. Gerard

Every Republican in the Senate voted against the Act. They voted to continue forcing Americans to give tax breaks to corporations that ship jobs overseas during the worst recession since the Great Depression.

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Where The World's Millionaires Are

DailyFinance | NIKHIL HUTHEESING | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Switzerland, Millionaire Households, Singapore, Hong Kong, Millionaires, Boston Consulting Group, Israel, Kuwait, Belgium, United Arab Emirates, Business News

You can't keep the rich down for long. Global wealth made a remarkable comeback in 2009, increasing by 11.5% to $111.5 trillion. That's according to a...

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Fareed Zakaria: Is American Innovation A Thing Of The Past?

Newsweek | Fareed Zakaria | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: American Innovation, 2009 Nobel Prizes, Information Technology, America, Boston Consulting Group, World Economic Forum, Business News

Americans like to think there is something about their culture that's especially conducive to innovation--the open geography and frontier spirit; a fl...

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7 Brain Teasers to Ace Job Interviews

Alvaro Fernandez | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Accenture, Microsoft, Mckinsey, Elkhonon Goldberg, Economy, Brain Teasers, Jobs, Boston Consulting Group, Job Interviews, Job Search, Executive Functions, Amazon, Logic, Google, Healthy Living News
Alvaro Fernandez

A recent CNN article explains well why a growing number of companies use brainteasers and logic puzzles of a type called "guesstimations" during job i...

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