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WomenCorporateDirectors First Ever Global Institute: It's Just Good Business

Providing a forum for women directors to engage with each other over leading governance issues, WomenCorporateDirectors (WCD) Global Institute will convene in New York City for the first time ever this coming week. WCD is a global organization of over 1,000 women directors representing 1,200 companies from 32 chapters around the world.READ»

J.C. Penney Opens Complete Store Within Facebook

Starting today, you can buy any of 275,000 items from the Plano, TX-based retail giant from within the social network.READ»

Why Google’s "20 Percent Time" Isn't Stemming Its Brain Drain

The time and space Google gives engineers to work on their own projects used to be the key to luring in PhDs and other brilliant minds. The recent talent exodus suggests it's no longer enough.READ»

Seven Wealth Builders That Most B2B Companies Ignore

Many firms are still smarting from a very tough recession, and feel like they are on life support. These seven criteria will help keep your company out of the emergency room.READ»

Successful Carbon Management Requires CEO Ownership

CEOs need to take ownership of carbon management as a business transformation challenge, to prevent their firms from failing to to achieve absolute reductions in CO2 emissions, according to a new report from independent research firm Verdantix. The Verdantix report, Best Practices Carbon Management, provides detailed advice on the development and implementation of a carbon business transformation plan.READ»

The "Product of the Year" Awards: The Grammy's of the Walgreens Scene

With over 60,000 products now larding supermarket shelves, consumers need help separating the wheat from the chaff. That's what the annual "Product of the Year" competition aims to do, heralding 14 of the best of 2010, picked by consumers themselves.READ»

B2B Social Media Marketing

Social Media has worked quite well for B2C companies like Dell, Home Depot, Proctor & Gamble and Southwest Airlines but what about B2B. Chris Yates is starting to help B2B companies play in the Social Media arena. Here is the ...READ»

Crafting Your Own Innovation Strategy: The Who, What, and How

If companies seek to innovate sustainably over time, they need to understand who they focus on, what they should make, and how they actually conceive and develop new products and services.READ»

• Dev Patnaik's Innovation blog

Forget Design Thinking and Try Hybrid Thinking

The true secret to innovation can be found in "hybridity," the conscious blending of different and disperse fields of thought--which doesn't always have to include design.READ»

• Dev Patnaik's Innovation blog