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To Boost Business, Let Employees Unleash Their Inner Napoleons

A new study says powerful people feel taller than they are. What does it mean for your company?READ»

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Why Brands Like Netflix, BP, And Goldman Sachs Should Avoid Facebook's Timeline

Marketers are eager to get on Facebook's latest product, which went live to the masses Thursday. For some brands, however, that's a terrible idea.READ»

OilLeaks: Secret U.K. Documents Outline The Dangers, Financial Benefits Of Arctic Drilling

What would happen if there were an oil disaster in the Arctic? According to these leaked emails: Nothing that all the cash from Arctic drilling won't justify. READ»

What If Apple Managed BP's Claim Center?

One positive solution to our environmental challenges is simply applying know-how we already have to our problems. We just have to ask the right people for solutions.READ»

Environmental WikiLeaks: Greenpeace Crowdsources Research Of Secret BP Documents

Greenpeace is on a mission to expose major corporations and government agencies involved in shady activities--and it wants your help.READ»

James Cameron And Eric Schmidt On Why They "Visioneer" For X Prize

An inside look at X Prize's all-star brainstorming session.READ»

One Year After The BP Oil Disaster, What Has Changed?

Without a clear understanding of what has changed since the disaster, we will be blindsided when a similar accident happens in the future.READ»

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BP Manslaughter Charges, Twitter's Influencers, The Guardian's U.S. Expansion, and More...

Welcome to Fast Feed, the Fast Company reader's essential source for breaking news and innovation from around the web--bite-sized and updated all day.READ»

BP Greenwashes Post-Deepwater Horizon CSR Report

There's no way to get around the Deepwater incident in the oil company's first corporate social responsibility report since the disaster--but that hasn't stopped BP from trying. READ»

Coast Guard Document Teaches Us How to Prepare for Offshore Oil Disasters

Regardless of how lousy they make the organization look, the Coast Guard's failures have much to teach us about how to better prepare for oil disasters. READ»

Deepwater Horizon: The Movie

Participant Media plans on portraying the moments leading up to the BP oil spill disaster in an upcoming film.READ»

Only Outthinkers Will Survive Today's Paradigm Shift

By dissecting the strategies of companies like Dell, Southwest Airlines, and Walmart, who over the course of the 1990s radically disrupted their industries, we found some surprising similarities in how these companies engineered breakthrough growth. READ»

Surprise! BP Believes Biofuels Are the Future of Transportation

Though automakers are scrambling to roll out hybrid and electric vehicles as fast as they can, BP believes that biofuels are the only way forward--at least for now.READ»

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Chevron Fined $8 Billion for Polluting the Amazon in History-Making Case

"It is the first time Indigenous people have sued a multinational corporation in the country where the crime was committed and won," says a watchdog group.READ»

Can Cornstarch Contain Future Oil Disasters?

Next time around, BP might want to try it. Researchers explain their recent breakthrough.READ»

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Oil Spill? What Oil Spill? BP Posts Profitable Fourth Quarter

Despite reporting an annual loss for 2010, BP's fourth quarter actually returned the energy giant to profitability. So much so that it's paying a dividend to its shareholders. How did this happen?READ»

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BP Develops Improved Ethanol, Hasn't Spilled It Yet

BP scientists have created a supercharged yeast that can gobble up sugar faster and more efficiently than any other yeast.READ»