On December 23, 2010
How Merrill Lynch Bribed Traders to Buy Bum Mortgage-Backed Securities
Wall Street pay practices helped cause the financial crisis by encouraging financial pros to roll the dice. But even sensible compensation strategies may do little to get execs to behave responsibly.
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On December 23, 2010
Barcelona Sponsor Linked to Hamas: Has Qatar Bitten Off More Than It Can Chew?
Qatar appears to be wildly over-reaching in its enthusiasm for sponsoring as much soccer as possible. Consider:Israel has reportedly sent diplomats to F.C. Barcelona to persuade the club to...
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On December 23, 2010
Mini Preps Yet Another Mini-Variant, Trying to Avoid Boredom at All Costs
Mini is almost 10 years old, and facing the issues associated with being a mature brand, with only one basic model. Its solution has been to slice and dice that one model, and serve it different ways.
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On December 23, 2010
The Future of Retail: Infographic Slideshow
It's a brave new world of augmented salespeople, credit card emulators, behavioral prediction, and hyper-targeted coupons -- but unlike Scrooge's visions, this one is already coming to pass.
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On December 23, 2010
The New Global Entrepreneur
Featured Guests: Anne Habiby and Deirdre Coyle, cofounders of the AllWorld Network and authors of the HBR article The High-Intensity Entrepreneur.
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On December 23, 2010
How Self-Dealing Among Doctors Continues to Push Up Medical Costs
Repeated efforts to contain imaging costs by government and private payers have had only partial success. There are solutions, but they're either long term or political non-starters.
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On December 23, 2010
Netflix CEO Hastings – the New Way of Corporate Communications?
The Internet has opened the door to a brave new world for corporate communications. Should public companies follow the lead set by Steve Jobs, John Mackey, and now Reed Hastings?
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On December 23, 2010
How Demand Media Keeps its Books
With Max Chafkin off to Wisconsin for the holidays, I’ll fill in for him and cover the ongoing saga of the Demand Media IPO.
To briefly catch you up, the media start-up is hoping to raise $125 million through a public…
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On December 23, 2010
Big Energy Losers of 2010: Spills, Fights, Fatalities (and That BP Yacht)
The Big Energy companies responsible for worst environmental disasters, fatalities, political missteps and CEO bungling in 2010.
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On December 23, 2010
How to Create PDFs That Can’t Be Printed
The new, "green" WWF format works just like PDFs, except that the documents can't be printed. This is good not only for trees, but also for documents you want to keep strictly electronic.
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