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Reflecting on Women, Leadership, and Empowerment

Stuti Jalan | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Women's Empowerment, Leadership, India, Diane Von Furstenberg, Warren Buffett, Global Leadership, Female Empowerment, Leadership Summit, Fortune Magazine, Impact News

Leadership is about empowering others and power expands the moment you share it.

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CNBC's Becky Quick Is Quick to Paint Car Salesmen as Sexist and Stupid

Grant Cardone | Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: Auto Industry, Cnbc Becky Quick, Sexist Auto Salesman, Becky Quick, Auto Salesman, Auto Dealerships, Auto Salesman Stupid, Sqwak Box, Fortune Magazine, Business News

Ms. Quick, let's be fair here, the idea that auto dealers, or their salespeople, are stupid and sexist based on your limited experience and perceived reality is not equitable to the entire auto industry.

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Changing a Workaholic Culture: Sloan Awards Announced

Katherine Reynolds Lewis | Posted 01.09.2012

Read More: Women, Careers, Jobs, Work-Life Balance, Sloan Awards, Parenting, Business, Workplace Flexibility, Fortune Magazine, Work/Family Balance, Katherine Reynolds Lewis, G. Brint Ryan, Working Moms, Business News

"People work the same amount of hours we were working before, but we're getting much more done," she says. "There aren't people there on the weekends. People have gotten a comfort level that face time is not what's necessary."

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PHOTO: Mayor Ed Lee, Marissa Mayer And Beer Pong At Fortune's 40 Under 40 Party

Robin Wilkey | Posted 12.28.2011

Read More: Zynga, Fortune Magazine 40 Under 40, Mayor Ed Lee, Marissa Mayer, Fortune 40 Under 40 List, Zynga Headquarters, Tim Westergren, Fortune Magazine, Fortune 40 Under 40 Party, Zynga Party, Fortune 40 Under 40, San Francisco News

On Thursday night, the Bay Area's youngest shining stars gathered at Zynga's slick new SOMA headquarters, "the doghouse," for Fortune magazine's 40 Un...

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Female Fortune 500 CEOs At Record High

Posted 12.26.2011

Read More: Heather Bresch, Fortune 500 CEOs, Fortune 500, Power Women, Mylan Inc., IBM Corp., Fortune Magazine, Virginia "Ginni" Rometty, Fifty News

With Mylan Pharmaceuticals' announcement today that Heather Bresch -- company president and daughter of West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin -- would suc...

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Fortune, Forbes Magazines Feud Over Report

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael Calderone | Posted 09.27.2011

Read More: The Backstory, Forbes Magazine, Media News, Steve Forbes, Business Magazines, Elevation Partners, Fortune Magazine, Fortune Forbes Article, Media News

NEW YORK –- Steve Forbes says Fortune magazine had an ulterior motive for reporting Thursday on Forbes Media's financial woes stemming from an ill-t...

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Forbes In Trouble

The Term Sheet: Fortune's deals blog Term Sheet | Katie Benner | Posted 09.27.2011

Read More: Forbes Trouble, Steve Forbes, Forbes, Magazines, Fortune Magazine, Media News

FORTUNE -- The Forbes family has poked itself in the eye with its "capitalist tool." Like many publishers, Forbes Media has struggled during the fi...

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The Reaction to Sloan's Bailout Argument

Robert Teitelman | Posted 09.11.2011

Read More: Federal Reserve, Fortune Magazine, Barack Obama, Allan Sloan, Media News

Such is the world we live in. If you operate on the Internet, you deal with the comments.

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Big Town, Small Town, Big Time, Journalists From Boston University

Don McNay | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Msfs, Headlight Herald, Mountain Eagle, Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues, Richmond Kentucky, Chfc, Al Cross, Whitesburg Kentucky, Tillamook Oregon, Oregon, Kentucky, Don McNay, Joe Nocera, Tom and Pat Gish, Fortune Magazine, Ben Gish, CBS Evening News, Clu, Boston University, All the Devils Are Here, Katie Couric, Son of a Son of a Gambler, New York Times, Steven Jobs, University of Kentucky, Cssc, Samantha Swindler, Jacksonville Texas, Rhode Island, Corbin Kentucky, A Piece of the Action, Media News

Boston University could not have produced two more different journalists than my friends Joe Nocera and Samantha Swindler.

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Who Gives The Best Info? A Short History Of Information Design

Paula Scher | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Diagrams, Fluxus, Map, Charts, The New York Times, Vanity Fair, George Maciuas, Saul Steinberg, Diagram of a Blog, Maira Kalman, Data-Visualization, Fortune Magazine, Esquire Magazine, New York, Pentagram, New York Magazine, The Guardian, Paula Scher, Fast Company, Business Week, Bloomberg, Info-Graphics, The Approval Matrix, USA Today, Nyc, Walter Allner, Data Visualization, Ny, Time Magazine, Op-Chart, Graphic Design, Design, Arts News

Last month, FAST COMPANY magazine published the best info-graphics of the year from their design blog. The choice was derived from FC's own postings o...

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All the Devils Are Here: Best Business Book of the Year

Don McNay | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bethany McLean, Gary Rivlin, Broke USA, Andrew Ross Sorkin, Financial Crisis, Joe Nocera, Wall Street, Nocera Mclean, All the Devils Are Here, Joe Nocera All the Devils Are Here, Henry Paulson, Hank Paulson, Vanderbilt, The Fed, Aig, Goldman Sachs, Cnbc, Gregory Zuckerman, American College, McNay Settlement Group, Lotteries, Books, Too Big to Fail, Vanity Fair, Kentucky, Fannie Mae, Don McNay, Michael Lewis, Fortune Magazine, Jim Cramer, Structured Settlements, Million Dollar Round Table, Eastern Kentucky University, Personal Finance, Roger Lowenstein, Business News

McLean and Nocera don't give us an idea as to where to look for angels. But the book is comprehensive, and I feel certain that all the devils are here.

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Dear Oprah: So Long, Farewell, Auf Wiedersehen... Good-bye Already

Meredith C. Carroll | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bill Clinton, Discovery Communications, Bono, Bill Gates, Fortune Magazine, Barack Obama, Schindler's List, Oxygen Network, Celine Dion, Wynonna Judd, Oprah Winfrey Show, Ali MacGraw, Oprah Winfrey Network, Media News

When Oprah announced this would be the last season of her celebrated talk show, millions of rabid viewers prayed it was just a ploy. And now, it's feeling painfully like her show might actually never end.

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Bloomberg BusinessWeek Steals Fortune Publisher

AP | ANDREW VANACORE | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hugh Wiley Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Hugh Wiley, Fortune Magazine, Magazines, Media News

NEW YORK — Bloomberg BusinessWeek said Wednesday it is hiring Hugh Wiley from Time Inc.'s Fortune magazine to be its next publisher. He's repla...

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The Myth of the Individual: What Successful Technologists Really Do

Caroline Simard | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fortune-Smartest-People-in-Tech, Innovation, Technology, Talent, Collaboration, Technologists, Tech, Innovator, Fortune Magazine, Technology News

This week, Fortune published a list of the 50 smartest people in high-tech. The focus on individual accomplishments, however, doesn't do justice to what technologists have to be the best at in order to be successful.

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Vuvuzela: Going Viral to Save Lives

Kari Stoever | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: HIV/AIDS, South Africa, Time Warner, Global Health, Mdr-Tb, World Cup 2010, Cnn, Soccer, World Bank, Unaids, Xdr-Tb, Tb, Tuberculosis, Fortune Magazine, Fifa, Vuvuzelas, World News

The vuvuzela is quickly becoming the world's first viral instrument. I recommend we make it the international instrument of solidarity to prevent deaths from HIV/AIDS and TB.

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Fortune Magazine and State Dept. Celebrate Young Women from Around the World

Taylor Marsh | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lloyd Blankfein, Women's Rights, Women, Women in Business, Fortune 500, Women's Issues, Fortune Magazine, State Department, Business News

It wasn't an ordinary Wednesday night for the young women chosen by the U.S. Embassy in their home country to be part of Fortune magazine and the U.S. State Dept.'s Most Powerful Women mentor program.

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Fortune Brainstorm Green 2010: A Conference for the Environment

Jennifer Schwab | Posted 05.25.2011

We need an official, approved and legislated policy on carbon reduction and we need it now.

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PHOTOS: Chris Ware's REJECTED Fortune Cover

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Chris Ware, Art, Chicago Art, Chicago Artists, Chris Ware Fortune, Fortune 500, Slidepollajax, Fortune Cover, Capitalism, Oak Park, Fortune Magazine, Chicago News

When Fortune magazine asked comic book artist and Oak Park resident Chris Ware to design the cover of their "Fortune 500" issue, they were probably no...

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Fortune's Green Brainstorm

Jasmine Boussem | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sustainability, Environement, Fortune Magazine, Electric Car, Ford Motor Company, Wal-Mart, Avatar, Business News

Have we marginalized environmental concerns by fostering the notion that environmental sustainability is a charitable, altruistic choice, rather than a practical self-serving one?

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Walmart Tops The Fortune 500 List - Again

Huffington Post | Ryan McCarthy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Walmart, Fortune 500, Fortune 500 2010, Exxon Mobil, Chevron, Fortune Magazine, Business News

It's Walmart's world -- and we're all just shoppers. The world's largest retailer has once again ascended the the top spot on the Fortune 500 list, su...

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Nina Easton, Fortune Magazine Blogger, Panders to Rich Friends and Readers

Richard Zombeck | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mortgage Crisis, Bank of America, Fortune Magazine, Nina Easton, Seiu, Protest, Business News

Nina Easton of Fortuneshould make an attempt to return to her journalistic roots and have a look at what's going on outside of her posh neighborhood and insulated circle.

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Colorado Companies Drop From Fortune's Most Admired List

Denver Business Journal | Mark Harden | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Colorado, Western Union, LIBERTY MEDIA, Fortune Magazine, Most Admired Companies, Denver News

Fortune magazine lists two Colorado corporations as industry 'contenders' for its annual 'most admired companies' list, but no local firms reached the...

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The NY Times Has It Bass Ackwards

Charles Warner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Stephen Brill, Financial TImes, NY Times, Fortune Magazine, Media News

The NY Times rewards freeloaders, punishes frequent, loyal readers, and does not give incentives for readers to take any action on ads. It's time to rethink its pricing strategy.

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The Best Investments For the Next Decade, Fantasy Version

Eric Schurenberg | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jeremy Siegel, Bill Gross, Cbs Moneywatch, Jeremy Grantham, Rob Arnott, Retirement Investing, Fortune Magazine, Larry Swedroe, Nathan Hale, Allan Roth, Business News

The wise men can't agree on anything, especially the outlook for emerging markets, the tech stocks of this decade.

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2010 Resolution: Slow Down For Success

Patricia Sellers | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Whole Foods, Charlie Rose, TOMS Shoes, Blackberry, New Years Resolution, Tim Tebow, Arianna Huffington, Andy Sewer, Att, Blake Mycoskie, Fortune Magazine, Healthy Living News

I've never been big on New Year's resolutions. But instead of resolving to do more this year, I'm aiming to do less. To slow down.

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