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Brand Is Culture, Culture Is Brand

The most creative business leaders I know recognize that success is not just about marketing differently from other companies. It is also, and perhaps more importantly, about caring more than other companies--about customers, about colleagues, about how the organization conducts itself in a world with endless opportunities to cut corners and compromise on values.READ»

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Analysts Feud Over How Many iPhone Users Will Abandon AT&T

Would you sever ties with your family (plan) to escape the clutches of AT&T? The company's CEO thinks not.READ»

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Power Is an Addictive Drug

In this excerpt from his new book "Power: Why Some People Have It--And Others Don't," author Jeffrey Pfeffer tells about one man's indulgences in the perks of power, and the devastating withdrawl when it was taken away.READ»

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Your Smartphone Will Soon Double as Your Wallet

The race is on to transform your smartphone into your wallet.READ»

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Bank of America and Visa to Test Smartphone-as-Credit-Card System

Wallets. Who needs 'em? Bank of America is teaming up with Visa for a smartphone-as-credit-card pilot test in New York next month.READ»

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Venezuelans Facing Jail Time for Tweeting About Banks

@leaoxford and @carmennares are facing up to 11 years in prison.READ»

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Who Is the Apple of Consumer Finance? Apple?

Who is the Apple for America's 60 million un- and underbanked? The obvious contenders are banks, alternative financial services (AFS), and nonprofits. Each has a couple Dells, an HP and perhaps even a Google. But no Apple. Could an iBank do what iTunes, iPhone and iPod have already done?READ»

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Developing Business Excellence While Delivering Responsible Competitiveness – The Case of Lloyds TSB

Using the EFQM Excellence Model to focus on customers and how we can create value by better meeting their needs, while identifying what we need to do to develop our people and maximize their potential -- all while archiving such sustainable excellence.READ»

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The Mall Is Undead, but Maybe Not for Long

Is the mall dead? And if so, is it permanently dead? That question hung in the air on the last day of the annual Congress for the New Urbanism. "We have too much retail," said Francis Scire, a senior leasing executive at Simon ...READ»

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JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America Called Out for Financing Mountaintop Removal

Mountaintop removal is one of those instinctively gut-wrenching things--it's never pretty to see natural habitats blown open to make room for coal mining. And yet, many of the biggest banks in the U.S. continue to fund the practice, ...READ»

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Deutsche Bank Converts Horrid '80s Towers Into Horrid '80s Eco-Towers

Deutsche Bank is set to become carbon neutral, starting with the world's first LEED Platinum retrofitted skyscrapers. Too bad they're so damn ugly.READ»

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Bank Uses Stefan Sagmeister's Wit as Ethical Currency

Instead of ripping off Sagmeister's work for its latest campaign, Standard Chartered actually tapped the graphic master to direct it himself.READ»

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Is Online Banking Safe? Pros and Cons of Internet Banking

One of the biggest advantages of Internet is that it considerably simplifies many routine operations, making it possible to access a variety of banking services online.READ»

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Shawn Baldwin from CMG discusses finance at the Wharton Whitney M. Young MBA Conference

Shawn Baldwin discusses the current state of the capital markets and finance at the Wharton MBA Conference with Ali Velshi of CNN, Robert Kapito of BlackRock and Wendell Motley of Credit SuisseREAD»

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Flaherty and the Canadian Housing Bubble

Yes, Canada has a housing bubble, in fact a humongous housing bubble! Yet the Canadian government who created the bubble wouldn't acknowledge it. For those who don't know CMHC is a crown corporation which mandate is to make housing ...READ»

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TD Bank: The Greenest Bank in the U.S.?

It's not easy to quantify sustainability, but it's pretty safe to say that TD Bank is now one of the greenest banks in the U.S. The company recently announced that it is the largest U.S.-based bank to achieve carbon neutrality. That ...READ»

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Top 5 Acquisition Strategies

Mergers and acquisitions often dominate headlines: “Apple Acquires Quattro Wireless for $250 M” or “Bank of America Acquires Merrill Lynch for $50B.” Acquisitions consolidate financial and physical resources within a...READ»

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Infographic of the Day: Government Bailouts Around the World

How do the U.S.'s economic interventions compare, across the world?READ»

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New Jersey Mortgage Banking Firm Opens New Office in Parsippany

An official ribbon cutting ceremony marked the opening of the new RH Funding mortgage banking office in Parsippany NJ. Members of the Chamber of Commerce and the Mayor of Parsippany were on hand for the event.READ»

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New Jersey Mortgage Banking Firm Opens New Office in Parsippany

An official ribbon cutting ceremony marked the opening of the new RH Funding mortgage banking office in Parsippany NJ. Members of the Chamber of Commerce and the Mayor of Parsippany were on hand for the event.READ»

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Matt Barrett & the CEO Mindset | Biz Money Matters |

If you're interested in how to develop a winning CEO mindset, I recommend you copy key pages from the Matt Barrett management play book if you can. Here's how.READ»

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Economic Turmoil

In case you have not seen it, here's a great article that supports new business start ups in 2010 http://www.entrepreneur.com/trends/index.htmlIt's not the $700 billion bank bailout. And no, it's not the $787 billion American ...READ»