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Design Your Top Jobs to Appeal to the Goals of Top Talent 27 Aug 2013 | 06:00 pm
A few leading-edge companies are making real progress in increasing the proportion of women in their executive ranks by turning the problem on its head. Rather than focusing their efforts on fitting t...
U.S. Poised to Become the Low-Cost Manufacturer of the Developed World 27 Aug 2013 | 05:30 pm
The United States is becoming one of the lowest-cost countries for manufacturing in the developed world: By 2015, average manufacturing costs in Germany, Japan, France, Italy, and the UK will be 8% to...
To Go From Big Data to Big Insight, Start With a Visual 27 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm
Although data visualization has produced some of the most captivating artistic displays in recent memory, some of which have found their way into exhibits at the New York Museum of Modern Art and coun...
John McCain's Cable TV Bill Is Anti-Capitalist 27 Aug 2013 | 01:00 am
My cable television needs are simple — give me the four staple network stations and a few business channels (for professional reasons) and I'm happy. When I called my local cable provider, a rep cheer...
Steve Ballmer's Big Lesson for the Rest of Us 26 Aug 2013 | 09:02 pm
The business media lit up over the weekend with the news that Steve Ballmer, the college friend who worked alongside Bill Gates to build Microsoft and was heir to the CEO job, will step down within a ...
Women Don't Need to Lead Better Than Men. They Need to Lead Differently. 26 Aug 2013 | 08:00 pm
In the summer of 2008, I experienced a massive hormonal shift, moving from the largely-male, testosterone-charged environment of Harvard Business School, where I had spent the first 18 years of my car...
Do You Have the IT For the Coming Digital Wave? 26 Aug 2013 | 07:00 pm
With a tsunami of new digital technologies all converging simultaneously — social, mobile, cloud, analytics and embedded devices — there has been, once again, a cry for corporate IT to radically chang...
The Problems With Incubators, and How to Solve Them 26 Aug 2013 | 06:00 pm
There is a very real knowledge gap in the early stage start-up game, on both sides of the table. First-time entrepreneurs lack the seasoning to captain a steady ship through turbulent waters. Inexperi...
Students Learn Less in States with Stronger Teachers' Unions 26 Aug 2013 | 05:30 pm
A 1-standard-deviation rise in teachers' union dues per teacher is associated with a 4% fall in student proficiency rates, according to a study of 721 U.S. school districts in 42 states by Johnathan L...
America's Brand with Frontier Entrepreneurs 26 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm
Walter Landor was a branding legend who helped companies from Coca Cola to Levi's define their brand for the public. "Put simply," he said famously, "a brand is a promise." The more important the prom...
