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May 2012
It’s never-ending winter in the developed Western world, or so it appears to almost everybody trying to make a living in the region. The ground...
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May 2012
Decisions In Spite of Ourselves
About midway through his remarkable new book, “Thinking, Fast and Slow,” author Daniel Kahneman writes...
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May 2012
In April 2000, when Unilever, the then-$45 billion Dutch-English consumer products giant, announced its acquisition of Ben & Jerry’s, the...
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May 2012
An interview with Angel Martinez, chairman & CEO, Deckers Outdoor
In 2005, when Angel Martinez was approached to become president and...
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May 2012
Joe Tucci became CEO of the EMC Corporation, a leading storage and information technology firm, in January 2001. It was, as he says, an interesting...
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May 2012
As the political anecdote from the 1930s goes, Alderman Murphy looks out the window of City Hall and sees an angry crowd marching by, shouting...
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May 2012
Where Did We Go Wrong?
In March 2012, an executive director at a global investment bank stunned the financial world by publicly resigning in...
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May 2012
Countries and companies alike are increasingly equating the well-being of their people with productivity.
By many traditional measures, the...
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May 2012
Capitalism 2.0
The firestorm encircling capitalism for the past half decade may well be unprecedented. Global economic chaos marked by a...
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May 2012
Up in the front of an airliner, far from the noise and cramps of the economy section, people get drowsy in those comfortable chairs, lulled by the...