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Tim Cook Not As 'Scary' As Steve Jobs

The Huffington Post | Courteney Palis | Posted 05.24.2012

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Following the death of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs last October, his predecessor and Apple's current CEO Tim Cook has time and again been compared to ...

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Fortune 500 Companies Made Record $824 Billion Profit In 2011

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Layoffs, General Electric, Video, Fortune 500, Unemployment, Corporate Profits, General Motors, Lockheed Martin, Pfizer, Fortune, Corporate Earnings, Wal-Mart, Business News

Poverty is rampant. Hunger is widespread. But don't worry about America's largest corporations -- they're doing just fine. Fortune released its ann...

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Bloomberg Businessweek Pulls a Bait and Switch

Yvette Kantrow | Posted 05.04.2012

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The story is less about private equity -- big or small -- and more about bringing efficiency to manufacturing, a standard practice in corporate America, particularly after a merger. That's supposed to be good, right?

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Why Friday the 13th Is a Very Lucky Day, Indeed!

Donna Henes | Posted 04.13.2012

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Up until the patriarchal revolution, both Fridays and 13s were held in the very highest esteem. Both the day and the number were associated with the Great Goddesses, and therefore, regarded as the sacred essence of luck and good fortune.

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The Two Faces Of Grace

Gangaji | Posted 05.19.2012

Read More: Awareness, Tibetan Buddhism, Consciousness, Grace, Fortune, Loss, The Inner Life, Death, Grace and Blessings, Mindfulness, Grace and Consciousness, Grace of Life, Gift of Life, Healthy Living News

The horrific face of grace can fill us with dread and fear when it appears, but if we are willing to welcome it -- as we welcome the good news of the grace of bounty -- it too brings us home.

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All The CEOs Who Are Independent Throw Your Hands Up At Me

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 03.14.2012

Read More: Steve Ballmer, Mergers and Acquisitions, Marriage, Single Ceos, Video, Investment, Cnbc, seekingmillionaire.com, Cnn, Microsoft, Ceos, Fortune, SingleStartUps.Com, National Bureau of Economic Research, Stock Volatility, Marriage Equality, Business News

Single CEOs have all the fun, or at least take all the risks, a recent report finds. Chief executives without a partner make riskier business decis...

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Western Tourist Town Finds Kitsch Fortune...

AP | MATT VOLZ | Posted 10.29.2011

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VIRGINIA CITY, Mont. — The Gypsy sat for decades in a restaurant amid the Old West kitsch that fills this former gold rush town, her unblinking ...

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Fortune's On-again, Off-again Bubble

Robert Teitelman | Posted 09.19.2011

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Fortune has discovered there might be a tech bubble. No, revise that.

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Fortune Global 500 Now Richer, More International, But With Same Number Of Female CEOs

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 09.06.2011

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On Thursday, Fortune released its annual Global 500 list of the world's largest corporations by revenue. The U.S. tops the list with 133 corporatio...

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Are You Draining Your Nest Egg to Stay Afloat on an Underwater Mortgage?

Natalie Pace | Posted 08.27.2011

Read More: Loan, Short Sale, Remodification, Bankruptcy, Pace, Retirement, Natalie, Suze, Rich, Bach, Fortune, Life, 401(K), Money, Unemployment, Credit, Mortgage, Millionaire, Insurance, 401k, NataliePace.Com, Bank, Foreclosure, Annuity, Cramer, Forbes, Real Estate, Business News

If you are one of those seriously delinquent homeowners, or one who is draining your nest egg or tapping home equity to make the mortgage payments, is there a way to hang on long enough?

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10 Companies That Radically Transformed Their Businesses

TIME.com | JOSH SANBURN | Posted 08.16.2011

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IBM turned 100 today, the rare company to thrive a century after it was founded. But in the 1980s and 1990s, many people had written the company off. ...

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Child's Play

Yvette Kantrow | Posted 08.14.2011

Read More: Money Magazine, Fortune, Sesame Street, Time Inc, Journalism, Personal Finance, Moneyland, Media News

Who is your financial role model: Elmo or Cookie Monster? That was the headline I was greeted with when I logged on to Moneyland, Time Inc.'s new personal-finance website.

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REPORT: Steve Jobs Was Furious When An Apple Product Flopped

The Huffington Post | Catharine Smith | Posted 07.07.2011

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Fortune's latest cover story dives behind the scenes at Apple's Cupertino campus for a look at Steve Jobs's hands-on managerial style and details the ...

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Means, Ends and Money

Yvette Kantrow | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: J. Crew, Fortune, Dan-Primack, Del Monte, Business, Private Equity, Inside Job, Business News

The media has long taken it on faith that private equity is an evil, possibly criminal, enterprise, run by money-hungry fraudsters who bury their comp...

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World's Most Admired Companies for 2011: Fortune

Posted 05.25.2011

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NOTE: this article was republished with permission from Fortune.com By Geoff Colvin, Shelley DuBois and Daniel Roberts, Fortune Now that the sk...

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As The World Turns, My Fortune Spins

Meredith C. Carroll | Posted 11.17.2011

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Now these Nanooks of the North want me to believe that I'm an Aries, and therefore energetic, enthusiastic, dynamic, confident, quick-witted and pioneering? I mean, who are we kidding?

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The Most Interesting New Year's Customs From Around The World

Posted 05.25.2011

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New Year's Eve may conjure up images of champagne flutes and stolen midnight kisses, but for revelers in Sao Paulo, there are more important matters t...

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Allure of the Hive: Experts on Connectivity, Social Networking and Social Change

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

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A distinguished panel of experts gathered Saturday at the Philoctetes Center for the Multidisciplinary Study of Imagination for a standing room-only r...

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BP Named Fourth Most Profitable Company In The World

Posted 05.25.2011

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BP may be one of the most hated companies in the world, but it's also one of the most wildly profitable. Fortune has released its most recent list...

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Value: Reality or Perception?

Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 05.25.2011

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Looking over a list of the most valued public companies -- Exxon, Microsoft, Wal-Mart, etc. -- you have to wonder how much of their value is driven by a highly irrational factor: their stock price.

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TechCrunch Responds To Publisher Backlash After Posting Excerpt From 'The Facebook Effect'

TechCrunch | Michael Arrington | Posted 05.25.2011

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A week ago we posted two excerpts from Fortune columnist David Kirkpatrick's new book The Facebook Effect. We're big fans of Kirkpatrick and have been...

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The Most Bizarre Companies on FORTUNE's New Most Admired List

Damien Hoffman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Coca-Cola, McDonald's, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Wal-Mart, Wells Fargo, Fortune, Business News

Does FORTUNE's list of Most Admired Companies prove we have a weird blind spot for those who manipulate the system at our expense?

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'Fake Lukas van Praag': Goldman Sachs's Notorious PR Chief Gets Lampooned On Twitter

Huffington Post | Grace Kiser | Posted 05.25.2011

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Goldman Sachs's acid-tongued public relations chief, Lucas van Praag, has recently been the subject of a lengthy profile, a host of blog posts and, no...

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Heart-Stopping Hallowe'en Horror, Left And Right

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

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Happy Samhain, everyone, if that isn't an inherent oxymoron. For those of you who expected (and were, of course, waiting for with bated breath... what...

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Tiger Woods: Does Fame And Fortune Limit Your Ability To Love?

Anne Naylor | Posted 11.17.2011

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I was told that often the very rich are burdened with having so much stuff to take care of that they are not free to enjoy their lives. They lose a sense of who their friends are.

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