Corporate America

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What the Media and Obama Never Understood About the Public Option

Cenk Uygur | Posted 12.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Public Option, Corporate America, Rahm Emanuel, Medicare Buy In, Private Health Insurance, Planes Trains and Automobiles, Health Care Reform, Planes, Cancer, Health Care, Barack Obama, Politics News

What I'm afraid of is that this bill makes private insurance larger and stronger -- and thus, gets us further away from curing the main problem of our health care system: perverse incentives.

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Insider Trading: How is a Secret Best Kept?

Mary Shannon Little | Posted 11.12.2009 | Home

Read More: Compliance, Insider Trading, Wall Street, Securities and Exchange Commission, Corporate America, Home News

How can any company keep information known to dozens, maybe hundreds, of corporate executives, lawyers, bankers and accountants confidential?

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Our Work, Our Worth?

Jen Grisanti | Posted 11.11.2009 | Living

Read More: Small Business, Motivation, Work, Spirituality, Contentment, Julie Jansen, Self Esteem, Work Life Balance, Corporate America, Gratitude, Corporate Ladder, Living News

I remember feeling numb by the amount of work I had while climbing the corporate ladder. Somewhere along the way, I lost track of what I loved most about my job.

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How Lame Is the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?

Nelson Montana | Posted 10.30.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Art, Youth, Baseball, Corporate America, Awards, Music, Artists, Generation Y, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Grand-Funk-Railroad, Entertainment News

How is it that a bunch of label executives have become the arbiters of who's worthy of honor and who isn't? It's the very antithesis of Rock and Roll!

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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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The Shriver Report Shows the Importance of Being a Real Cougar Woman

Linda Franklin | Posted 10.19.2009 | Living

Read More: Cougar Women, Women in the Workplace, Maria Shriver, NBC News, Aging Parents, Woman's Nation, Face Time for Women, The Shriver Report, Gender Divide, Women in Corporate America, Corporate America, Real Cougars, Money Issues, Living News

For the first time in history, one-half of all U.S. workers are women, and mothers are the primary breadwinners or co-breadwinners in two-thirds of American families.

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Obama Business Tax Plan Kiled After Outcry

wsj.com | NEIL KING JR. And ELIZABETH WILLIAMSON | Posted 10.13.2009 | Business

Read More: Silicon Valley CEOs, National Foreign Trade Council, Corporate America, Barack Obama, Microsoft, Business News

The Obama administration has shelved a plan to raise more than $200 billion in new taxes on multinational companies following a blitz of complaints fr...

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How Did That Idiot Become My Boss?

Simon Sinek | Posted 11.30.2009 | Business

Read More: Leadership, Coach, Start With Why, Office Politics, Corporate America, Corporations, Manager, Dodgers, New York Knicks, Management, Corporate Culture, Tommy Lasorda, Business News

As people get more senior, they move from being doers to being thinkers and managers, but most companies don't train people how to manage or think.

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Do Corporate Giants Own Your Favorite Organic Label?

DivineCaroline | Brie Cadman | Posted 11.10.2009 | Green

Read More: Green Living, Organic Food, Industrial Agriculture, Green Politics, Corporate America, Corporations, Organic, Green News

As the market for organic and natural foods has dramatically increased over the past few decades, and large megastores like Walmart and Costco have go...

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Pamplona Bulls Wall Street Bound?

Dan Dorfman | Posted 09.26.2009 | Business

Read More: Economic Recession, Corporate America, Economic Crisis, Recession, Business News

Corporate insiders are making it loud and clear that they don't believe we're over the economic hump, despite observations to the contrary.

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WATCH: Chevron's Ecuador Problem Forces Andy Rooney to Drop the H-Bomb...Something He Really, Really, Hates to Do

Paul Paz y Miño | Posted 09.19.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, Ecuador, Chevron, Big Oil, Corporate America, Andy Rooney, Media, Cancer, 60 Minutes, Oil Companies, Green News

Andy Rooney hates what Chevron is doing -- leaving 18 billion gallons of wastewater and 17 million gallons of crude oil to pollute Amazonian communities, and then trying to pretend that nothing ever happened.

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Healing America (and What One Man Is Doing)

Beth Arnold | Posted 09.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Delmark Goldfarb, Twitter, Mass Hysteria, Corporate America, Balance the Bucks Concert, Health Care Reform, Portland Oregon, Neil Young, James Morgan, Corporate Greed, Blues, Barack Obama, Politics News

A man I've come to know a bit is a blues musician named Delmark Goldfarb from Portland, Oregon. He's producing a concert titled "Balance the Bucks", a rally against greed.

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New York's Consumerism

Reverend Billy | Posted 09.10.2009 | New York

Read More: Texas Oil, Monetization, American Consumerism, Consumer Confidence, Consumerism, Corporate America, Michael Bloomberg, New York City Apartments, American Culture, Corporate Greed, Consumer Spending, 1950s, New York City, New York News

Consumerism is what they call a "totalizing system." It expands outward across the landscape and simultaneously into the individual's psyche. It must expand.

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Jack Welch Sounds False Note on Women in Corporate America

Julie Menin | Posted 08.21.2009 | Business

Read More: Women, Fortune 500, Corporate America, Jack Welch, Campbell Brown, Business News

We have a long way to go in providing opportunities for women in corporate America, but we'll never get there if the attitude is that a woman "can't" have it all.

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Fighting Teamwork

Jonathan Littman | Posted 08.20.2009 | Business

Read More: I Hate People, Jonathan Littman, Stinson Beach, Tug-of-War, Marc Hershon, Bolinas, Teamwork, Corporate America, The Ringelmann Effect, Corporate Culture, Business News

Ringelmann showed that three men only pull as hard as two and a half men, and eight only pull as hard as four. Far from synergy, group effort creates an inverse productivity ratio.

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Manufacturing and the Limits of Comparative Advantage

Ralph Gomory | Posted 08.08.2009 | Business

Vague talk about future innovations, a post-industrial society, or an explosion of services exports is not the stuff on which to bet the prosperity of a nation.

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Fear and Looting in America: How Wealth Begets Wealth on the Hill

Les Leopold | Posted 07.07.2009 | Business

Read More: Tax Cuts, Banks, Financial Crisis, Congress, Corporate America, Lobbyists, Economy, Wealth, Lobbying, New York Times, Corporate Greed, Business News

This shift in wealth in America since the 1970s created an unholy cycle of more lobbying for more benefits for the super-rich and large corporations, who in turn paid for even more lobbying -- a cycle that still is in full motion.

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How Much Of Coporate America Does The U.S. Own?

The Atlantic | Conor Clarke | Posted 07.02.2009 | Business

Read More: General Motors, Corporate America, General Motors Bankruptcy, GM Government, Nationalization, Gm, Government Ownership of Corporations, GM Bankruptcy, Business News

As you've probably heard by now, Obama is sending General Motors to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. And, as you've also probably heard, the United Sta...

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Autopsy Shows Corporate America Dead. Cause: Timidity

Mike Hegedus | Posted 06.28.2009 | Business

Read More: Lewis Black, Nuclear Weapons, America, Corporate America, Middle East Politics, Jeff Zucker, Nbc, Business News

Every marketing and branding guru worth his or her salt will tell you that in the vacuum created by a down economy is where market share is to be gained.

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Executive Pay and What to Do About It

Burton L. Wise | Posted 06.18.2009 | Business

Read More: Corporate Power, Executive Pay, Corporate Greed, Corporate America, Corporations, Executive Compensation, Business News

Small shareholders in large corporations must form organizations to unify and organize their votes advance their interests and attempt to limit the out-of control remuneration of these executives,

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How To Live On $0 A Day: Bargain Hunting Tips For Corporate Execs

Lesley Stern | Posted 06.11.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Bargains, Depression, Financial Meltdown, Wall Street, Bailout, Humor, Corporate America, Financial Crisis, Banks, Comedy News, Executive Compensation, Comedy, Recession, Financial Advice, Comedy News

Let me be the first to extend the olive branch to corporate America with a few ideas on how to save millions of dollars on basic necessities. Let's start with something easy, like plumbing.

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Mother's Day for the Motherless

Leeat Granek, PhD | Posted 06.06.2009 | Living

Read More: Mourning, Motherhood, Moms, Corporate America, Mother's Day, Grief, Living News

My mother was my best friend and we could spend hours together without ever getting bored or tired of each other. In fact, there was no one I wanted to spend time with more.

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How to Make Your Assistant Not Hate You on Administrative Professionals' Day

Lilit Marcus | Posted 05.22.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Humor, Corporate America, Bosses, Administrative Professionals Day, Administrative Professional Day, Administrative Assistant Day, Admin Professionals Day, Administrative Day, Administrative Professional, Administrative Professionals, Administrative Professionals Day Gifts, Administrative Professionals Day 2009, Secretaries Day 2009, Administrative Assistants Day 2009, Happy Administrative Professionals Day, Comedy News

Since that surly kid who brings your coffee in every morning seems to dislike you as much as the surly kid who ignores you from the other side of the breakfast table, this is your chance to use Administrative Professionals' Day to your advantage.

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Capitalism - the Gift That Keeps on Taking: Part II

Michael Gene Sullivan | Posted 05.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Politics, Wall Street Bailout, Government Bailout, Bailout, Crime, Corporations, Corporate America, Economy, George W. Bush, Obama Administration, Socialism, Corporate Power, Business, Capitalism, Corporate Greed, Politics News

History shows that capitalists, like wars, earthquakes, and floods, will always wreck our country -- the only difference being natural disasters don't also rob us in the process.

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