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What's Wrong with This Picture: Kodak's 30-year Slide into Bankruptcy
As Eastman Kodak begins to adapt to the challenges of bankruptcy, David A. Glocker's company, Isoflux, is expanding -- thanks to technology he developed in Kodak's research labs. He didn't steal anything. In fact, before he founded... More about What's Wrong with This Picture: Kodak's 30-year Slide into Bankruptcy
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Revisiting the American Dream: Is the U.S. Providing Fewer Opportunities to Get Ahead?
The widening income gap has become a controversial issue in the United States, as liberals decry the decline of the middle class and conservatives argue that a healthy market economy must reward effort, enterprise and risk taking. But on the related... More about Revisiting the American Dream: Is the U.S. Providing Fewer Opportunities to Get Ahead?
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The Unexpected Early Winners of the Arab Spring
After toppling long-standing regimes, destabilizing others and grabbing the world's attention, the Arab Spring's protestors most likely remain amazed at the far-reaching effects of their actions in early 2011. Although their demands in... More about The Unexpected Early Winners of the Arab Spring
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Procter & Gamble: Mastering the Art of the Innovation Tournament
Procter & Gamble CEO Bob McDonald is a man with a plan. Last year, he and his company declared a bold vision -- one that includes making all products and packaging with recycled or renewable materials, and ensuring that no waste from P&G... More about Procter & Gamble: Mastering the Art of the Innovation Tournament
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Stock market & investment trends for 2012 and beyond
At the start of last year I did not update my Australian stock market trends simply because I thought the market was basically going nowhere. This year however I feel it is worth looking at some interesting sectors again in an attempt to pick... More about Stock market & investment trends for 2012 and beyond
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Microfinance's Latest Challenge: Cutting Back on Over-indebtedness Among Its Poorest Clients
Long before "99%" became a symbol of Occupy Wall Street, the microfinance industry used the number to describe the share of its clients -- poor entrepreneurs shunned by traditional banks -- who repaid their micro-loans on time. It's a number... More about Microfinance's Latest Challenge: Cutting Back on Over-indebtedness Among Its Poorest Clients
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'Great by Choice': Jim Collins and Morten T. Hansen on Excelling in Uncertain Times, Part Two
In Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck -- Why Some Thrive Despite Them All, Jim Collins and Morten Hansen suggest that even in the most tumultuous business conditions, we can choose to be great. Over a period of nine years, Collins, a... More about 'Great by Choice': Jim Collins and Morten T. Hansen on Excelling in Uncertain Times, Part Two
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Oil Prices, the Baltic Dry Index, Stock Markets & Gold
The interest rate cut yesterday by the Reserve Bank of Australia suggests that finally the RBA understands that the Chinese economy will not keep expanding at a rapid rate while its major trading partners are struggling. But even if the Chinese... More about Oil Prices, the Baltic Dry Index, Stock Markets & Gold
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Grand Plan Of Eu And Ez Now All But Broken, As Ringmaster Berlusconi Takes
As we roll around to year-end, the European experiment survives (for now – who knows about next week?). The EU, formed in 1993, is an economic and political union of 27 independent member states, which is most of Europe. The union’s ... More about Grand Plan Of Eu And Ez Now All But Broken, As Ringmaster Berlusconi Takes
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Concierge Medicine: The Doctor Is (Always) In, If You Pay Enough
For anyone who has ever waited days or weeks to see the doctor, concierge medicine sounds appealing: For an additional fee, patients typically enjoy same-day appointments and 24-hour access, more face time with the doctor and extra preventative... More about Concierge Medicine: The Doctor Is (Always) In, If You Pay Enough
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