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Young Entrepreneur Council: 10 Tricks for Startups Trying Out Marketing Stunts

Scott Gerber | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Marketing Stunt, Business Profits, Small Business, Young Entrepreneurs, Profits, Startups, Yec, Marketing, theyec.org, Business, Young Entrepreneur Council, Small Business News
Scott Gerber

What's a fun paid marketing stunt that's worth the cash for small-but-savvy startups that might not have huge budgets?

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Young Entrepreneur Council: Quit Blaming the Economy for Why You're Not Making Enough Money

Scott Gerber | Posted 04.27.2012

Read More: Business Profits, Small Business, Young Entrepreneurs, Profits, Young Entrepreneur Council, Startups, Yec, theyec.org, Business, Small Business News
Scott Gerber

The Young Entrepreneur Council promotes entrepreneurship as a solution to unemployment and underemployment and provides entrepreneurs with access to tools, mentorship and resources that support each stage of their business's development and growth.

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You Can Be a Patriot Or a Profiteer... But You Can't Be Both

Robert Greenwald and Derrick Crowe | Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: Profiteering, Northrup Grumman, Patriots, Profits, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Profiteers, Military Contractors, Defense Lobbying, War Profiteering, Video, Politics News
Robert Greenwald and Derrick Crowe

This week, the three military contractors that do the most business with the Pentagon announced their quarterly profits for 2012. Their profits continue to grow while they push Washington, D.C. to protect their budgets at the expense of the rest of us.

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Corporations May Have A Tougher Time Escaping Taxes On Foreign Profits

Reuters | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Taxes, Corporate Lobbying Coalition, Senate, Video, Profits, Lobbying, Lobbyists, Reuters, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Bloomberg News, WIN America, Business News

WASHINGTON, April 23 (Reuters) - The corporate tax lobbying group WIN America has canceled its business with outside firms effectively ending its ad...

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Oil Giant Takes Home Big Profits

Reuters | Posted 04.19.2012

Read More: Thomson Reuters, Video, Oilfield Company, Profits, BP Plc Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill, Revenue, Halliburton, Reuters, Premarket Trading, Business News

* EPS ex-items of 89 cts top Wall St view of 85 cts * Revenue rises 30 pct to $6.9 bln * Shares up 4.5 pct ...

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Big Bank Sees Profits Drop

Reuters | Posted 04.14.2012

Read More: Earnings, JPMorgan Chase, Video, Wall Street, Profits, Stock, Reuters, Banking, Banks, Income, Business News

* Net income $5.4 billion vs $5.6 billion year earlier * Q1 EPS $1.31 vs $1.28 year earlier April 13 (Reuters) - JPMorga...

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U.S. Workers Aren't Using Their Vacation Days

The Huffington Post | Khadeeja Safdar | Posted 04.12.2012

Read More: Vacation Time, Overworked, Holidays, Video, Workers, Profits, Travelling, Employers, Business News, Jobs, Vacation, Vacation Days, Business News

Wanna get away? No. Nearly half of American workers didn't use all of their allotted vacation days last year, according to a recent survey conduct...

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Major U.S. Corporations Squeezing Even More Money Out Of Employees

The Huffington Post | Bonnie Kavoussi | Posted 04.09.2012

Read More: Productivity Per Employee, Revenue Per Employee, Corporate Profits, Employee Revenue, S&P 500, Video, Profit, Profits, Revenue, Revenue Employee, Revenues, S&P 500 Companies, Productivity, Employee Productivity, Business News

Major corporations are making certain they get their money's worth out of each individual employee. S&P 500 companies made an average $420,000 in ...

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Harvard Business Students Debate KKR and Sustainability

Gwen Ruta | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Kkr, Corporate Social Responsibility, Profits, Milton Friedman, Business, Bob Eccles, Green News
Gwen Ruta

For years, Friedman's theories held young business students in thrall across the country, but last week at Harvard Business School, I saw a totally different ethos.

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The Mass Murderer, the Multi-National and the Mega-Bank: Where Are the 'Good Guys' in America?

Stuart Muszynski | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: Profits, Ibm, America, Values, Ethics, Kindness, Doing-the-Right-Thing, Business, Fairness, Greg Smith Goldman Sachs, Greg Smith Resignation, Ibm-Holocaust, Corporate Greed, Greg Smith, Business News
Stuart Muszynski

Will America continue to be a "good guy" nation in our own eyes and the eyes of the world? Or will some businesses lead us into a downward spiral and will average Americans allow ourselves to be swept up in it?

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Ripping Your Face Off: Goldman Sachs vs. The World

Monika Mitchell | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Leadership, Goldman Sachs, Wall Street Integrity, Profits, Goldman Sachs Clients, Fleischer Jacobs Group, John Servin, Goldman Sachs Ethics, Goldman Sachs Integrity, Wall Street Greed, Rip You Face Off, Greg Smith, Investment Banking Ethics, Business News
Monika Mitchell

This week marks a turning point for Goldman Sachs and the rest of the investment banking industry. Somehow the king of kingmakers, Goldman Sachs, couldn't buy one if its very own star's silence.

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Ron Dicker

Silent Truth About 'The Artist'

HuffingtonPost.com | Ron Dicker | Posted 02.27.2012

Read More: Best Picture, The Academy Awards, The Artist, Jean Dujardin the Artist, Academy Awards, Profits, Box Office, Oscars, Jean Dujardin, The Oscars, Slumdog Millionaire, Movies, Hollywood, Business News

"The Artist" could quickly double its box office sales after winning the Best Picture Oscar on Sunday. The Weinstein Company has marketing muscle and ...

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Major Soft Drink Company To Cut Thousands Of Jobs

Reuters | Posted 04.10.2012

Read More: Layoffs, Tropicana, Soft Drinks, PepsiCo Inc, Video, Profits, Coca-Cola Co., Soda, Reuters, Gatorade, Jobs, Sierra Mist, Global Workforce, Business News

* Q4 adj EPS $1.15 tops Wall St view of $1.13/share * Targets incremental savings of $1.5 bln over 3 years ...

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Bonnie Kavoussi

Wages Fell In 2011, While Corporate Profits Surged

HuffingtonPost.com | Bonnie Kavoussi | Posted 02.01.2012

Read More: Labor's Share of Income, Labor, Video, Low Wages, Workers, Corporate Profits, Profits, Wages, Salary, Work Productivity, Labor Share of Income, Worker Productivity, Productivity, Business News

A new report out Tuesday shows that working Americans made less money last year, as real wages fell about two percent in 2011, when accounting for inf...

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Latvian Trader Allegedly Made Hundreds Of Thousands By Hacking Accounts

AP | Posted 01.27.2012

Read More: Fraud, Unauthorized Trades, Igors Nagaicevs, Video, Latvia, Profits, Stocks, Sec, Federal Regulators, Securities and Exchange Commission, Hacking, Fines, Business News

WASHINGTON -- Federal regulators have filed civil charges against a trader in Latvia whom they accuse of hacking into U.S. customers' online brokerage...

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Business Is Booming For The Grateful Dead

www.rollingstone.com | Posted 01.20.2012

Read More: The Epic Tour, Bill Kreutzmann, The Grateful Dead, Sales, Mickey Hart, Profits, Jerry Garcia, Grateful Dead, Grateful-Dead-Game, Business, Music, Ron Pigpen McKernan, Phil Lesh, Fifty News

Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart admits his band has always been wary of plastering its name or likeness onto products. "People would bring us sugges...

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Catherine New

Banks Tap Reliable Money Maker: Credit Cards

HuffingtonPost.com | Catherine New | Posted 01.20.2012

Read More: Debt, Credit Card Balance, Mastercard, Durbin, Profits, Visa, Consumer Credit, Bank of America, Swipe Fees, Credit Cards, Charge Off, Bank Earnings, Big Banks, Debit Cards, Business News

After being rebuffed in its efforts to charge $5 per month for debit card use, Bank of America is gambling on the optimism of American consumers and g...

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2012: A Political Economy Year

Max Fraad Wolff | Posted 03.11.2012

Read More: Politics, Instability, Low Wages, Profits, Corporate America, Wages, Ows, Jobs, Economic Inequality, Economic Growth, Tea Party, US Economy 2012, Election 2012, Business News
Max Fraad Wolff

The politics and political norms of the U.S. are shifting as the economy has already shifted. 2012 looks set to be the year when this dramatically emerges.

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Swiss Central Bank Chief To Break Silence Over Insider Deals

AP | FRANK JORDANS | Posted 03.06.2012

Read More: Switzerland, Video, Sarasin, Profits, Central Bank, European Financial Crisis, Swiss People's Party, President Philipp Hildebrand, Currency Deal, Neue Zuercher Zeitung, Swiss National Bank, Business News

ZURICH — The Swiss National Bank chief denied any wrongdoing Thursday and said he had no plans to resign over private currency deals that produc...

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Financial Sector A Bigger Share Of Economy Now Than Before The Crisis

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 12.15.2011

Read More: Financial Industry, U.S. Economy, Treasury Department, Video, Wall Street Bailout, Wall Street Profits, Gdp, Bailout, Profits, Wall Street, Financial Sector, Financial Reform, Occupy Wall Street, Financial Crisis, Federal Reserve, Financial Lobby, Tea Party, Financial Regulation, Business News

The financial industry may have taken a hit during the Great Recession. But relative to the overall economy, it's bigger now than it was before Lehman...

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Is Capitalism Moral? Wrong question, Part the Last

Bishop Pierre Whalon | Posted 02.05.2012

Read More: Bernard Lonergan, Los Indignados, Milton Friedman, Apple, Capitalism, Business Ethics, Profits, Economics Morality, Business News
Bishop Pierre Whalon

What I am proposing is that we attend not only to the bottom line but also to the real human dimension of being an actor in the economy, an entrepreneur, or a business leader.

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Disney Profits Up On Advertising

Posted 01.11.2012

Read More: News Corp, Walt Disney Co, Video, Comcast Corp, Nfl, Profits, Wall Street, World Cup, Espn, Abc, Nba, Time Warner Inc, Network TV, College Basketball, Business News

Walt Disney Co unveiled strong results that trumped Wall Street's expectations as advertisers spent more at cable networks like ESPN and consumers...

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How Marketing Researchers See Design

Soren Petersen | Posted 12.31.2011

Read More: Design, Marketing, Innovation, Profits, Design Conscious Marketing, Product Design, Product Design Research, Industrial Design, Business News
Soren Petersen

Cowritten by Dr. Jaewoo Joo "Designers don't just put cosmetics on the skin of a product!" During my interview with a graduate student at Ontario Col...

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Honda Chief Financial Officer: 'To Put It Bluntly, We're In A Really Tough Spot'

Posted 12.31.2011

Read More: Nissan, Video, Japan Earthquake, Profits, Renesas Electronics Corp., Hyundai, Honda, Chibagin Asset Management, Thailand Floods 2011, Nikkei, Consumer Reports, Business News

TOKYO (Chang-Ran Kim) - Honda Motor Co withdrew its annual earnings guidance in an unusual move on Monday due to uncertainty surrounding currency ...

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Ford Posts A Profit For The Tenth Quarter In A Row

Posted 12.26.2011

Read More: Automakers, Video, Commodity Cots, Morgan Stanley, Profits, Standard and Poor's, Hedge Positions, Interest Payments, United Auto Workers Union, Chief Financial Officer Lewis Booth, Dividends, Fitch, Ford Motor Co, Moody's, Business News

(Bernie Woodall and Ben Klayman) - Ford Motor Co posted lower third-quarter earnings after misjudging the threat of higher commodity costs and wri...

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