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Business Schools Add Courses On Ethics, But Are Graduates More Ethical?

Post-financial meltdown, business schools are trying to make their graduates more responsible. But does taking one class on ethics work, or does a new ethical model need to permeate the curriculum?READ»

Only 3% Of What You Buy Is Made In China, But It's The Most Important 3%

When we outsourced manufacturing to China and Japan and Taiwan, we may have lost something far more important than low-wage jobs. We may have lost the ability to innovate and grow.READ»

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»

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Harvard Prof Highlights Booming Enterprises in War-Torn Pakistan

AllWorld, a project co-founded by Harvard Business School Professor Michael Porter, has just released its Pakistan Fast Growth 25 winners.READ»

Don't Recruit Next Generation Talent, Grow It

Dan Heath and Chip Heath explain why you should grow your next generation of talent, not recruit it.READ»

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Google's Minnie Ingersoll Talks Fiber, Workplace Perks, and Surfing

Ingersoll and Google's Alternate Access team are working on creating next-generation broadband networks -- featuring speeds up to 100 times today's standard -- to spur the coming wave of online innovation.READ»

Unbundle Your Business

If you’ve never made the flight to Bentonville, Ark., you are missing something extraordinary. The smallness of your plane, the vista of an endless patchwork of farmland connected by country roads, hides the fact that you are ...READ»

Women Flock to Social Networks: Will They Dump Dating Sites to "Make Friends" Safely?

Recent data shows that the number of women logging on to social-networking sites far exceeds the number of men. Information is Beautiful recently presented the information, as gathered by Google Ad Planner.  LinkedIn and YouTube ...READ»

Why Customers Will Pay You to Restrain Them

We worry about many things. Our kids' grades, our parents' health, the world at large. (Also, will all those unemployed investment bankers have enough to eat?) Add to that list one really odd thing we worry about: our own future ...READ»