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Wheel of Fortune

Yvette Kantrow | Posted 11.06.2009 | Media

Read More: Bloomberg LP, Businessweek, Charlie Rose, The Economist, Fortune Magazine, Condé Nast, Time Inc., Media, Business, Media News

So Fortune magazine is cutting back its issues to 18 from 25. But don't panic. The new Fortune will become more of a lush-looking premium product.

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Warren Buffett and the Business of Life: Part 2 of 7

Alice Schroeder | Posted 11.05.2009 | Books

Read More: Berkshire Hathaway, Excerpt, Economics, Books, Stock Market, Economic Crisis, Business News, Warren Buffett, Financial Crisis, The Snowball, Alice Schroeder, Business, Books News

Buffett would always love reading newspapers, but his investing was tightly focused on simple businesses that were as close to immortal as possible. Newspapers no longer qualified.

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Venturing Green

Bob Giloth | Posted 11.04.2009 | Green

Read More: Social Enterprise, Nonprofits, Green Jobs, Social Ventures, Green, Business, Social Entrepreneurship, Employment and Training, Green Businesses, Green News

Are theses nonprofit ventures harbingers of bigger and better things to come? It's hard to scale these businesses or even to replicate them.

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Changing the World by Changing the Gender Gap

Leslie Grossman | Posted 11.02.2009 | World

Read More: Politics, Leadership, Gender Gap, Education, Iceland, United States, World, Women, Laura Tyson, Larry Summers, Women in Business, Business, World Economic Forum, Gender Gap Index, World News

There was good news and bad news in the Gender Gap Index. The good news is that the health and education gaps are being closed. The bad news is that the economic and political gaps are not.

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Help! I Don't Wanna Die!

Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 11.02.2009 | Business

Read More: New York Times, Bovine Methane Emissions, Business, David Carr, Business Journalism, Business News

We're not interested in big, glossy spreads of the superpeople who run the economy and its constituent parts. So what should those who cover business be writing about, and not? Here are some early suggestions.

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Is Conscious Capitalism an Oxymoron?

Chip Conley | Posted 10.30.2009 | Business

Read More: Target, Southwest Airlines, Wal Mart, Pepsi Co, Downturn, Warren Buffett, Joie De Vivre Hotesl Proctor & Gamble, The Container Store, Business, Whole Foods, Zappos, Karmic Capitalism, Unconscious Capitalism, Business News

We may be entering an era of Karmic Capitalism when business realizes what goes around, comes around. Let's hope that the captains of industry apply noblesse oblige to the business world.

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I Want to Be More Like the New York Yankees

Rachel Thebault | Posted 10.29.2009 | Home

Read More: 2009 World Series, Success, New York Yankees, George Steinbrenner, World Series, Major League Baseball, Alex Rodriguez, Derek Jeter, Business, Philadelphia Phillies, Home News

This isn't easy for me to say. Growing up in Washington, DC, I was born and bred to hate the Yankees, and I've spent the first 98.5% of my life thus ...

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Warren Buffett and the Business of Life: Part 1 of 7

Alice Schroeder | Posted 10.29.2009 | Business

Read More: Excerpt, Book Excerpt, Economics, Books, Economic Crisis, Aig, Business, Eliot Spitzer, Berkshire Hathaway, Merrill Lynch, Wall Street, Gen Re Securities, Warren Buffett, Sec, The Snowball, Alice Schroeder, Business News

Warren Buffett is never more himself than when he is given the chance to invest in something he wants at a price of his choosing.

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10 Sure Fire Ways to Make Your Life 100 Times Better

B. Jeffrey Madoff | Posted 10.29.2009 | Living

Read More: Relationship Advice, Youth, Wealth, Corporate Responsibility, Sex, Books, Self-Confidence, Self-Improvement, Self-Esteem, Business, Confidence, Self-Help, Self-Realization, Living News

My grandmother was a wise woman. She would tell me, "Live each day, one at a time." When I asked her how else you could live, she would take a sip from the flask under her apron and shrug her shoulders.

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Walmart Caskets For Sale Online, Starting At $999 (PHOTOS)

Posted 10.28.2009 | Business

Never mind its typical merchandise, the world's largest retailer has a new item on the shelf. You can now purchase Walmart caskets, a development t...

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Volunteering to Change the World: Top 15 Reasons People Join

Patricia Martin | Posted 10.29.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Giving, Charity, Volunteering, Causes, Business Networking, Chicago Volunteering, Business, Networking, Chicago News

What drives people to pour hours of their precious time into charity work? There's a big carrot enticing many people to roll up their sleeves for charity -- a shot at playing a leadership role.

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Do Your HR Professionals Know How to Make Change?

Jon Younger | Posted 10.28.2009 | Business

Read More: Leadership, Human Resources, Business, HR Role, HR Professionals, Hr, Business News

HR professionals are uniquely positioned to help line managers identify and solve individual and team performance issues, but must have the skills to do so.

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Who Wants Yesterday's Frameworks?

Paul David Walker | Posted 10.26.2009 | Living

Read More: U.S. Economy, Living, Business, New Realities, Jack Welch, Walt Disney, Business Frameworks, Living News

One of my mentors had said to me years ago, "Do you want to be right, or win." My thought sounded like Jack Welch, "I want both."

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AP: Obama's New Consumer Agency Is Far From A Sure Deal

AP | JIM KUHNHENN | Posted 10.24.2009 | Business

Read More: Consumer Protection Agency, Consumers, Business, Consumer Protection, Barack Obama, Business News

WASHINGTON — Take a hard look now. A new agency that consumers were promised would make bankers, credit card companies and mortgage lenders trea...

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Shriver Report: Get Married, Have Kids, Then We'll Speak to Your Issues

Bella DePaulo | Posted 10.24.2009 | Living

Read More: Workforce, Social Security, Singled Out, Pay, Divorce, Children, Matrimania, A Woman’s Nation, Gloria Steinem, Nonfamily Households, Media, Childless Women, Business, Ideology, Consciousness-Raising, Friendship, Compulsory Heterosexuality, Politics, Compulsory Mothering, Singlism, Discrimination, Breadwinners, Health Care, Couples, Family, Women’s Media Center, Taxes, Connection, Single-Person Households, Wives, Compulsory Marriage, Money, Women’s Movement, Suze Orman, Shriver Report, Singles, Maria Shriver, Time Magazine, Mothers, Gender, Education, Oprah Winfrey, Career, Workplace, Unmarried America, John Podesta, Adrienne Rich, Living News

I'll highlight some remarkable and conventional-wisdom-defying findings from the report that were published but never headlined.

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Just Listen Microsoft - An Opportunist Does Not a Visionary Make

Mark Goulston, M.D. | Posted 10.28.2009 | Living

Read More: Steve Ballmer, Apple, Windows 7, Microsoft, Mark Goulston, Visionary, Business, Entrepreneurship, Living News

Opportunists are about extending a grasp in an already competitive environment. They are about being grabby, and when they have the clout of a Microsoft, about being "pushy."

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Overthinking to Stinking: The Dangers of Overly Complicated Marketing

Sarah O'Leary | Posted 10.21.2009 | Business

Read More: Creativity, Marketing, Sales, Creative Capitalism, Business, Retail Sales, Corporations, Corporate America, Business News

A unique marketing idea is like a rock on the side of a riverbank. It has flat spots and rough spots and points and dips and crags and a host of things that make it different from the rest.

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Entrepreneurship May Be Genetic

inc.com | Josh Spiro | Posted 10.20.2009 | Business

Read More: Dna, Genetics, Entrepreneurship, Business, Hormones, Business News

If you made your first sale while still in diapers and your lemonade stand was a substantial contributor to the family income, you've likely been call...

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The Non-Profit "Business"

Brian Dickie | Posted 10.20.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Business Management, Non-for-Profit, Harvard Business School, Business, Chicago Opera Theater, Economic Recovery, Economic Recession, Chicago News

Now the business schools are having a heart-searching reassessment, and putting a little more emphasis on that great subject of ethics. Or so we are told.

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Indian Companies Innovating On Products Aimed At The Poor

wsj.com | ERIC BELLMAN | Posted 10.20.2009 | Business

Read More: India, Tata Nano, Pureit, Tata Motors, Innovation, Business, Business News

For the farmer who wants to save for the future, one Indian entrepreneur has developed what is, in effect, a $200 portable bank branch. For the villag...

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Health Care Bill's Winners And Losers: Drug Makers To Benefit, Insurers Brace For Hit

Wall Street Journal | JANET ADAMY and GREG HITT | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Market, White House, Losers, Obama, Business, Legislation, Pharma, Politics, Scorecard, Negotiations, Baucus, Wellpoint, Aetna, Novartis, Pfizer, Health Care, Wall Street, Reid, United Health, Stocks, Merck, Winners, Insurance Industry, Senate, Profits, Health Care Reform, Health Insurers, Dodd, Medicaid, Bill, Medco Health, Politics News

The drug industry stands to gain in a health-care overhaul by getting tens of millions of newly insured customers, while insurance companies -- especi...

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Are You Making the Most of the First Six Months?

Jon Younger | Posted 10.20.2009 | Business

Read More: JP Morgan Chase, PNC Financial, JP Morgan, Employees, Financial Services, Recruiting, Human Resources, Accenture, Business, Management, Business News

How do you make the most of the opportunity to bind new employees to the organization through the ways you induct, orient and initially support an employee's cultural integration?

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Financial Crisis Worked Out Well for Goldman Sachs

Alan Schram | Posted 10.15.2009 | Business

Read More: Financial Crisis, Goldman Sachs, Hank Paulson, Business, Wall Street, Executive Compensation, Business News

Now that Goldman Sachs is a regular commercial bank, it actually trades more. This makes sense: if the US Treasury covered my losses, I would also be happy to take major risks.

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Bruce Wasserstein 1947-2009

Robert Teitelman | Posted 10.15.2009 | Business

Read More: Lazard, The Deal, Bruce Wasserstein, M&A, Media, Business, New York Magazine, Deals, Business News

The Bruce we knew was an enthusiast of the media and for journalism. It's been said often enough, but Bruce came up with the idea for a national newspaper to cover deals.

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Fifteen Amazing Stock Market Charts

Henry Blodget | Posted 10.14.2009 | Business

Read More: Business, Stock Market, Graphs, Bull Market, Bear Market, Business News

There's no way to really understand the meaning of the investment mantra "stocks for the long run," unless you understand how long the long run can really be. And how long can it be? Long.

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