On March 4, 2010

The Best Way to Measure Company Performance

Most Wall Street analysts and investors tend to focus on return on equity as their primary measure of company performance. Many executives focus heavily on this metric as well, recognizing that it is the one that seems to…

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In a Quiet Milestone, Ford Passes GM in February

What if nobody wanted to be No. 1? Toyota passed GM in worldwide auto production in 2007, and look at Toyota now. No wonder Ford is being quiet about outselling GM in the U.S. last month.

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No Dice: Officials Put Steve Wynn’s Philadelphia Casino Plan on Hold

The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board decided not to pull the license of the troubled Foxwoods Philadelphia casino but wouldn't hand it over to Wynn Resorts chief executive Steve Wynn, despite promises of $250 million investment, until they could look at

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Canada’s Business Barometer Continues To Rise

The Canadian Federation of Independent Business's Business Barometer Index has gone up for the second month in a row, and even if it's supposed to take three occurrences to start an official trend, this is a big deal. The index…

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Like Siblings, Teams Get Locked Into Behavior Patterns

I used to witness a strange metamorphosis every year in the early fall. The tall, granite-faced men I knew as my uncles and the tall, granite-faced women I knew as my aunts would lose their adult identities and…

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The Last Person You’d Ask for Help

Employees are giving their bosses the big body swerve when seeking advice. Why?

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Wired’s Chris Anderson Believes He Has Seen the Future–and It’s Tablets

Wired editor-in-chief Chris Anderson tells an advertising conference that digital tablets will be broadly adopted in less than ten years ... but is he right?

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AstraZeneca Staffer Want to Know: Why Doesn’t Their Symbicort Lady Have a Face?

It's a minor mystery in the drug world that's become a topic of debate among AstraZeneca (AZN)'s Symbicort sales staff: Why, in TV commercials for the asthma drug, is the presenter represented as a pitch-black silhouette and not a real

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