On June 13, 2011

Conspiracy Alert! GM Has Rediscovered the Lowly Bus

GM's venture capital arm is opportunistically investing in an electric bus manufacturer. The conspiracy theorists will see evil, but the company is actually doing some good.

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On June 13, 2011

The Trouble With Internships: Lack of Mentorship, Not Pay

Companies arenÃ¢â¬â¢t abusing interns by failing to pay them, argues the author of a new e-book, but by failing to mentor and educate them. And they shouldn't stand for it.

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On June 13, 2011

Banks Approving More Business Loans, Survey Indicates

Banks rarely make public how many loan applications they deny. A new survey by researchers at Pepperdine University suggests that lenders are approving slightly more business loans than they did in the last year. The majority of loan requests are…

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On June 13, 2011

Not Getting Paid? 4 Myths About Why Your Company Can’t Collect

Is a bad economy making it harder to collect on invoices? Nope. If you're having this problem, you just need to get a little tougher on your debtors.

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On June 13, 2011

Ad for “Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” Movie Leaves No Nip Unslipped

The movie poster, featuring a topless Lisbeth Salander's pierced nipples, is a far cry from author Stieg Larsson's original book, published in Swedish as "Men Who Hate Women."

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On June 13, 2011

Why American Management Rules the World

After a decade of painstaking research, we have concluded that American firms are on average the best managed in the world. This is not what we — a group of European researchers — expected to find. But while Americans are…

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Jeffrey Immelt’s Remedy for Unemployment Is the Wrong Cure for the Wrong Disease

The Obama administration's jobs "czar" blames the high jobless rate largely on workers lacking the skills that businesses want. Here's why he's wrong.

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In Digital Media, the Commercial Potential of the Pile

Recently, the satirical newspaper The Onion captured — and not for the first time — just what I wanted to write about in this post with its article "'The Economist' to Halt Production for Month to Let Readers…

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Growth Frenzy Cools as Facebook Gets Dry Behind the Ears

Facebook is still on its way to 700 millions users, with 687 million actives at the start of June, according to a report by Inside Facebook, which provides analysis of the social networking giant. The trend in

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Four Simple Low Resolution Innovation Tests

"Our new service tested off the charts — more than 5% of customers we surveyed said they would buy it," one reader at a not-for-profit organization emailed me. "We launched it. The results were disappointing."

Remember, customers lie. Not maliciously,…

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