May 19, 2013

Edition: U.S.

Fortune Magazine

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Christine Quinn Reacts To Controversial NY Times Article

HuffingtonPost.com | Rebecca Shapiro | Posted 05.14.2013 | Media

City Council Speaker and Democratic New York City mayoral candidate Christine Quinn appeared at Fortune Magazine's Most Powerful Women event on Monday...

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Fortune Green: Consumers Won't Pay Extra, But Companies Will

Jennifer Schwab | Posted 05.10.2013 | Green

The top movers and shakers of the corporate sustainability world recently gathered at Fortune Brainstorm Green to examine, analyze and summarize the success of green B to B, and the simultaneous failure of green B to C commerce.

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The Top Spot On The Fortune 500 Is....

Fortune | Posted 05.07.2013 | Business

Read More: Walmart, Starting-a-Job, Fortune 500, Fortune 500 2013, Apple, Exxon Mobil, Fortune, Chevron, Fortune 500 Companies, Fortune Magazine, Business News

Fortune: Walmart retook the top spot, Berkshire Hathaway made the top five and Apple grew enormously. Here are the top 10 companies on the For...

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Detroit Company Makes '100 Best Companies' List

ABC News Radio | Anselm Gibbs | Posted 04.16.2013 | Detroit

(NEW YORK) -- A Detroit-based company is among three companies from Michigan to make the latest edition of Fortune magazine's "100 Best Companies to W...

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The Brown Cross: A Modern Day Robin Hood

Michealene Cristini Risley | Posted 03.04.2013 | Impact

Read More: Liquid Church, American Red Cross, Hurricane Sandy, Fema, Pastor Mike Leahy, The Brown Cross, Fortune Magazine, Impact News

Six weeks after the storm, wreckage from broken lives was still scattered everywhere. The areas that had been ignored: Red Hook, Rockaway, Staten Island, Coney Island, Brighton -- all of these communities were overwhelmed by damage from the storm.

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BuzzFeed Is the "Big Winner" of Media Scene in 2012

Andy Plesser | Posted 02.28.2013 | Media

Read More: Buzzfeed, Fortune Magazine, Jonah Peretti, Video, Media News

BuzzFeed, the brainchild of Huffington Post co-founder of Jonah Peretti, is the big winner in the media landscape of 2012, writes Erika Frey in Fortu...

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The Glass Ceiling Keeps Calling: Marissa Mayer's Fortune Magazine Cover

Monica Gallagher Sakala | Posted 12.04.2012 | DC

Why didn't Marrisa Mayer pose in all her third trimester glory for the cover story of Fortune magazine about the most powerful women in business? Why did she shun her Demi Moore/Vanity Fair moment?

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WATCH: Oprah Finds A New Favorite Thing

The Huffington Post | Rebecca Shapiro | Posted 09.20.2012 | Media

Stars, they're just like us! Err, well—sort of. Oprah appeared on "CBS This Morning" on Thursday and revealed that she has found a new discovery...

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In Conversation with a Photo Editor: Elizabeth Cheng Krist

Adriana Teresa Letorney | Posted 10.31.2012 | Arts

Read More: Fotovisura, Photography, National Geographic Magazine, Publishing, Arts, Women in Business, Visura-Magazine, Fortune Magazine, Magazines, Elizabeth Cheng Krist, Arts News

As a photo editor, I seek inspiration and guidance from the working photo editors in our profession today. There are few photo editing positions avai...

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I'm With Stupid: My Cloudy Understanding of the Technological Climate

Todd Hartley | Posted 09.22.2012 | Comedy

Read More: The Cloud, Aspen, Ceos, Computers, Brainstorm Tech Conference, Higgs Boson, Entrepreneurs, Innovation, Technology, Clouds, Business, Meteorology, Colorado, Fortune Magazine, Comedy News

It was a telling measure of how out of my element I was discussing the weather that the conversation I understood best was when a physicist tried to explain what the Higgs Boson actually is.

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Where the Chatter About Marissa Mayer Went Way Wrong

Barbara & Shannon Kelley | Posted 09.19.2012 | Women

What we ought to be talking about is why the workplace remains so incompatible with motherhood in the first place -- and why we assume that fixing that is women's work.

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Where Are The Best Places To Retire In 2012?

Fortune Magazine | Posted 06.20.2012 | Fifty

Huff/Post50 readers are always looking for interesting places to retire. And judging by the comments section, they also have fairly strong views on wh...

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Reflecting on Women, Leadership, and Empowerment

Stuti Jalan | Posted 06.18.2012 | Impact

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 | Business

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 | Business

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 | San Francisco

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 | Fifty

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 | Media

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 | Media

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 | Media

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 | Media

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 | Arts

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 | Business

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 | Media

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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