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Justin Timberlake, Bill Clinton Shill For Walmart At Annual Meeting

HuffingtonPost.com | Alice Hines | Posted 06.01.2012

Read More: Walmart's 50th Anniversary, Sam Walton, Rob Walton, Celine Dion, Taylor Swift, Walmart Proxy Fight, Calpers, Calstrs, Walmart Annual Meeting, Justin Timberlake, Lionel Richie, Business News

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. -- What do Taylor Swift and Bill Clinton have in common? It's not the folksy accents, though, perhaps those helped them score t...

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Flirting With Arrest And Aerosmith At Walmart's Shareholders Meeting

HuffingtonPost.com | Alice Hines | Posted 06.01.2012

Read More: Sam Walton, Walmart's 50th Anniversary, Carrie Underwood, Walmart Proxy Fight, Walmart 2012 Shareholders Meeting, Chairman Rob Walton, Aerosmith's Steven Tyler, Walmart Shareholders Meeting, Business News

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. -- "Fifty years of Walmart, baby. Can you handle that?" Words that never before escaped the mouth of Aerosmith's Steven Tyler se...

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Say Goodbye to the Wal-Mart Greeters

Al Norman | Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: Stand Up Comedians, Tom Coughlin, Sam Walton, Made in America, Wal-Mart Greeters, Business News

The fun is over. Sam Walton's "greatest idea" is dead -- apparently a victim of the recession -- several thousand Wal-Mart greeters are coming in from the cold, to circulate around the store, helping customers find cheap Chinese underwear, and other useful functions.

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Occupy Wall-Mart: Save America. Live Better.

Al Norman | Posted 02.04.2012

Read More: Sam Walton, Made in America, Economic Justice, Occupy Wall-Mart, Walton Enterprises, Employee Free Choice Act, Business News

The encampments against corporate greed in the financial districts of America could just as well have appeared outside of Wal-Mart headquarters in Bentonville, Arkansas. There is no better example of corporate exploitation in the world.

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Wal-Mart Heiress Stands Firm As Art Museum Set To Open

Posted 01.07.2012

Read More: Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Arkansas, Republican Fundraising, Arkansas Museum, Walton Family, Alice Walton, Bentonville Arkansas, Wall Street Journal, Wal-Mart, Sam Walton, Video, Nick Cave Soundsuits, Museums, Republican, Crystal Bridges, Nick Cave, Republicans, Arts News

At this point, Alice Walton knows how to brush off the critics. After unveiling plans for the new Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in her hometo...

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Dukes Puts 'Em Up Again

Martha Burk | Posted 12.28.2011

Read More: Sam Walton, Wal-Mart Sex Discrimination Case, Walmart, Fortune 500, Dukes v. Walmart, Walton Family, Richest Americans, Forbes 400, Betty Dukes, Walmart Sex Discrimination, Walmart Supreme Court, Walmart Gender Discrimination, Walmart Lawsuit, Business News

Remember Dukes v. Walmart, the case that the Supreme Court threw out because the company claimed it was too big to be sued for sex discrimination. Well, like Freddy Krueger every Halloween, it's ba-a-a-ck.

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School Choice Advocates Hope To Build On Gains

| Bill Lueders | Posted 11.25.2011

Read More: Public Schools, Milwaukee Schools, Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism, School Contributions, Private Contributions, Alice Walton, Walton Family, Sam Walton, Wisconsin Public Schools, School Donations, Walmart Family, Voucher Program, Education, School Vouchers, Wisconsin Schools, School Choice, Education Reform, Video, Education News

This piece comes to us courtesy of the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism. This is the third of a three-part series by Bill Lueders exam...

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How The Walmart Family Heirs And Others Are Changing The Face Of Education

| Bill Lueders | Posted 11.20.2011

Read More: Public Schools, Milwaukee Schools, Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism, School Contributions, Private Contributions, Alice Walton, Walton Family, Sam Walton, Wisconsin Public Schools, School Donations, Walmart Family, Voucher Program, Education, School Vouchers, Wisconsin Schools, School Choice, Education Reform, Video, Education News

This piece comes to us courtesy of the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism. This is the first of a three-part series by Bill Lueders exam...

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The Myth of The Million-Dollar Idea

Thom Ruhe | Posted 11.12.2011

Read More: Sam Walton, Small Business America, Small Business, Kauffman Foundation, Inc. 500, Bill Gates, Huff Post Small Business, Entrepreneurs, Trash Hauling, Entrepreneurship, Icehouse-Entrepreneurs, 1-800-Got-Junk?, Video, Small Business News

Founders like Brian Scudamore remind us that rather than breakthrough ideas accelerated by loads of venture capital, it is often simple solutions to everyday problems, combined with years of persistence and business-building, that lead to entrepreneurial success stories.

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Walmart Heir's Mega-Museum

Posted 08.20.2011

Read More: Rich People, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Sam Walton, New Yorker, Walmart, Corporations, Museums, Alice's Wonderland, American Art, Painting, Alice Walton, Bentonville Arkansas, Crystal Bridges, Arts News

A piece in next week's New Yorker will shed some light on Alice Walton, art collector and daughter of Walmart's founder, Sam Walton. Her collection, t...

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Struggling Walmart Finds Early Success In Scaled-Down Stores

Posted 08.15.2011

Read More: Sam Walton, Arkansas, Walmart, Imports, Bill Simon, Exports, Grocery Stores, Walmart Express, Free Trade, Walmarket, China, Video, Business News

CHICAGO (Jessica Wohl) - After hitting a couple of easy layups by opening small stores in its home state, Wal-Mart Stores Inc (WMT.N) is ready to ...

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The 10 States Where Walmart Is King

Posted 07.23.2011

Read More: Sam Walton, Arkansas, Walmart, Louisiana, California, New Jersey, West Virginia, New Hampshire, Missouri, New York, University of Minnesota, Walmart Density, Walmart States, Business News

Walmart, the world's largest retailer and the largest company in America based on sales and employees, has tried to argue since the beginning of the r...

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Sadly, There's No MBA for Imagination

Sarah O'Leary | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Creativity, Walmart, Marketing Trends, Ray Kroc, Business School, Women in Business, Graduate Degrees, Innovation, Harvard Business School, Imagination, Smarter Ideas, Business, Brand Marketing, TV Advertising, Sam Walton, Coca-Cola, Fostering Creativity, Retail Sales, Business Schools, Advertising, College Education, Brand Management, Business News, Marketing, Columbia Business School, MBA Degrees, Best Business Schools, Shoppers, Pepsico, B-School, Business News

There are some indisputable facts in our glorious world. Men can't give birth. You can't cheat death. And you can't educate your way to creativity.

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Wal-Mart Buys San Diego

Al Norman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sam Walton, Big Box Ban, San Diego, Citizen Wal-Mart, Voter Referendum, Business News

Wal-Mart needed only eight weeks and maybe $30,000 to scare the daylights out of the City Council in San Diego.

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Is It Wal-Mart, Or Small-Mart?

Al Norman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sam Walton, Dark Stores, Neighborhood Markets, David Glass, Small Mart, Wal-Mart, Marketside, Scale-Mania, Business News

Big stores or small, Wal-Mart remains one of the most profligate corporations in history, blanketing hundreds of thousands of acres with asphalt and concrete, and then leaving their dead stores for Wal-Mart Realty to sell.

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Toy Fair 2010 Drives This Hoarder Crazy for New Toy Trends

Brad Balfour | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: February 14 - 17, Toy Fair 2010, John Lasseter, Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, Sam Walton, Ugly-Dolls, Javits Convention Center, Teddy Bears, Pixar, New York News

For a guy with an apartment cluttered with classic metal toys, quirky objects and offbeat street finds, the annual Toy Fair held at the Jacob Javits Convention Center is both a celebration and a torture.

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Wal-Mart Billionaire Wants $8 Million Subsidy

Al Norman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sam Walton, St. Louis Rams, Tifs, Denver Nuggets, Denver Broncos, The Avalanche, THF Realty, Bud Walton, E. Stanley Kroenke, Business News

An entrepreneur who married into Sam Walton's extended family, and is listed high up on the Forbes Wealthiest Americans list, is asking Missouri taxpayers to help him build a bigger Wal-Mart.

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Wal-Mart Can Be Our Surprise Salvation: A Two-Part Discussion of the Retail Giant's Health Care Potential

Patricia Yarberry Allen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sam Walton, Health Care Reform, Humor, Hmos, Wal-Mart, Patricia Yarberry, Community Clinics, Politics News

Ultimately, the political infighting about our health care crisis isn't the point. The possibility of solving it is. I am as surprised as you might be to believe that the best hope lies with Wal-Mart.

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How To Find The Thrill In Your Business

Roy Spence and Haley Rushing | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Herb Kelleher, Sam Walton, Walmart, Tony Hsieh, TOMS Shoes, Purpose in Business, Purpose, John Mackey, Southwest Airlines, Blake Mycoskie, Reimagining Business, Whole Foods, Business, Zappos, Healthy Living News

Companies with a purpose have a way of seeing a need in the marketplace and conceiving of a never-before-thought-of solution to meet that need.

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Bank of America's Stimulus For Wal-Mart & Target

Al Norman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sam Walton, Target, Bank of America, Cash Back Program, Wal-Mart, Home Depot, Tarp, Main Street Program, Home News

New "Add It Up" Plan Doesn't Add Up By Al Norman The head of the embattled Bank of America told members of the Boston College Chief Executive Offic...

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Wal-Mart's Dog and Pony Show

David Nassar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bentonville, Sam Walton, Human Rights, Walmart, Wal-Mart, Deborah Shank, Arkansas, Debbie Shank, Lee Scott, Shareholders, Retailer, Business News

Wal-Mart's abandonment of founder Sam Walton's own beliefs that have led them to become such a distasteful presence to an increasing number of communities and shoppers.

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Wal-Mart Cancels 45 Superstore Projects

Al Norman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sam Walton, Bernstein Research Call, Sprawl-Busters, Growth Model, Postponed Projects, Cannibalization, Wal-Mart, John Menzer, Business News

While hundreds of sling-shot coalitions have been hurling rocks at this retail Goliath for years, ironically, it is now the giant itself which is reeling from its own self-inflicted excesses.

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