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The 10 Most Creative Small Businesses

Fast Company's 100 Most Creative People in Business represent the best and the brightest in innovation and creation, but the companies they rep aren't all powerhouses--yet. Here are 10 of the most creative small business drawn ...READ»

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I Don't Want Cindy Crawford Touching My Face, and Other Celebrity Endorsements

Did you know that Cindy Crawford has her own line of face creams? Did you know that the anti-aging properties are due to the key ingredient, Charentais cantaloupe, a "rare French melon"? Did you know that Cindy Crawford allegedly ...READ»

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Gilt Groupe Without Guilt: Fans Flaunt Their Finds

Passionate fashionistas have made Gilt Groupe the darling of luxury-obsessed bargain hunters.READ»

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Boston Hannah New York

Boston Hannah Chicago Deploy Application-Aware Backup and Recovery Solutions Application-aware backup is extremely important for understanding the specific requirements of each major enterprise application. With ECM systems, for example, traditional backup approaches have no awareness of the relationships that an object, such as a document, has to other objects in a business process, such as another document in a workflow. Therefore, if an ECM system routes documents through an approval process, and if one of those documents is accidentally lost—it cannot be restored back to the state it was at before the loss occurred. The only option is to route it back through the approval process until it reaches the stage it was at prior to the deletion and suffer the permanent loss of annotations and other properties' metadata that can't be recreated. This opens the door for compliance risk since the approval process, which specifies who approved what when, is not the original, but a recreation. A granular, application-aware backup and recovery solution offers the ability to quickly restore only the affected information back to its original state, with the original metadata intact, avoiding disruptions to critical operations and facilitating compliance. Boston Hannah New York READ»

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Meth Mouth: Tom Siebel's Brash Anti-Crystal Campaign

Brash and obsessive, tech tycoon Tom Siebel believes that keeping teens off crystal meth is largely a matter of educating and scaring them. Could he be right?READ»

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Spring Comes to the Printed Page: Visionaire's Light-Sensitive Magazine

Spring is here, and magazines are jostling to evoke the season. But the newsstand rags have got nothing on the latest issue of Visionaire. "Solar," a collaboration with Calvin Klein, arrives inside a sturdy ...READ»

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New York, New York: If can make it there, I'll not make it elsewhere

Update 8 Aug 2009: The decline of New York's garment district courtesy of the New York TimesStart spreading the news, I'm investing todayI want to be a part of it - New York, New YorkThese vulturous CEOs, are going awayBanished from ...READ»

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Barbie Turns 50, Celebrates by Having Some Work Done, Dropping Price to '59 Levels

For 50 years, a certain American blonde with the figure of a Playboy bunny, the hair-do of a USC cheerleader, and the arches of a Conde Nast editor has been channeling the zeitgeist and fashioning her wardrobe accordingly. She ...READ»

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Panjiva: A Morningstar for Manufacturing

Panjiva brings intelligent search and better information to the fashion industry's hunt for suppliers.READ»

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Lights, Camera, Action

Ari Gold wears his suits with five buttons on the cuffs.  Robert Evans preferred velvet to business casual.  The Hollywood producer has been on our minds recently.  We've been watching Action, the cancelled '99 Fox sitcom about ...READ»

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Plumbing the Depths of Joe the Foreign Policy Expert

WITH THE non-American speaking world marveling at how a would be pipe fitter (to give Google a whole new phrase to index) is doing a real life Chauncey Gardener, let's stop taking his pontifications on foreign policy so seriously, and ...READ»

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Buy.ology: Why We Buy What We Do

It seems that I spend a great deal of time these days talking about the subconcious emotional drivers of designs. It turns out that there are very good reasons we all "buy" what we do. Reasons that are tied into our biology, ...READ»

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Unbuttoning the Levi's Brand

Levi's has a significant problem: like many other iconic brands -- it's pretty much generically synonymous with the idea of "jeans" -- there's nowhere near the consumer behavior (i.e. purchases) to match consumer ...READ»

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How The Fashion Industry Is Greening Its Operation

While being eco-friendly has been in style the last few years, it’s questionable whether green will still be fashionable next season.READ»

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Analysis of Paralysis

If your strategy doesn't help employees act, it's not a strategy.READ»

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Talent Pool

Making their mark from New York to Tokyo. Fourteen talents who are driving design forward.READ»

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Top O' the Market: A Consumer's Guide

  Trump World Tower Richard Meier's Perry Street towers 20 Pine The Jade Miraval Living William Beaver House The pitch "The Greatest Condominium Building in the ...READ»

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Shvo Motion

One man's real-estate vision quest, and the $15 billion portfolio he's building along the way.READ»

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Fast Talk: Creative to the Core

What's it like when your job depends on generating new ideas, inspiring others to do the same, and figuring out how to use the result? Creativity is the essence of business--and the elixir of these five leaders.READ»

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Smells Like Brand Spirit

In the battle for consumers' attention, some innovative companies are exploring a new branding frontier: scent. Will they be winners by a nose?READ»

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Ivy Ross Is Not Playing Around

For years, Mattel has worked to grow beyond Barbie. One strategy was growth through acquisition. Ivy Ross's strategy is to inspire innovation -- to reinvent how the world's number-one toy company designs its toys.READ»

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Gold Standard

The Mitchell Gold Co. is bringing overdue change to an out-of-touch industry: home furniture. But unlike so many other mavericks, its primary competitive weapon isn't the Internet. Instead, the company is deploying a smart sense of design.READ»

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Mind Games

According to the people at Play, whose clients include some of the world's most serious companies, the best ideas come from playful minds. And the way to tap into playful minds is to play -- together.READ»

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How We Sell

If shopping is the great American indoor sport, why isn't it more fun? Why isn't it easier? Why isn't it better? Paco Underhill, founder of Envirosell Inc., decodes the secrets of retail design to explain the rules behind how we shop.READ»

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Design Rules

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