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Microcredit Entrepreneur Wins Nobel Peace Prize

BY Kathryn Tuggle
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A simple business plan based on the concept of microcredit just won Bangladeshi economist Muhammad Yunus the Nobel Peace Prize. Yunus was awarded the prize today for the bank he founded, the Grameen Bank, which provides average loans ...READ»

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iFive: Nobel Peace Prize, Online Toddlers, Yahoo's FaceTime, Adobe-Microsoft Merger Muttering, London Bike Successes

BY Kit Eaton
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If you must have motivation, think of your paycheck on Friday. If you must have news, here's the early bits, in manageable chunks.READ»

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Top 20 Reactions From Pundits and Politicians on Obama's Nobel Peace Prize

BY Kevin Ohannessian
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President Barack Obama's Nobel Peace Prize is a lightning rod of debate. Here are the best quotes from the maelstrom.READ»

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Leading Ideas: The Power of Acknowledgement

BY Fast Company Staff
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"At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us." -- Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965) Medical missionary, ...READ»

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Win A Million Dollars

BY Terry Tamminen
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How about these ideas for future million dollar prizes...READ»

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Senior Entrepreneurs Business Startups

BY Mr Rickman
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Throughout corporate America daily water cooler gossip often involves talk of retirement. Perhaps you recognize such retirement conversations, the day many dream to sail off into the sunset resting at that peaceful gated community or ...READ»

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Charles Costello - Fast 50 2003

BY Fast Company Staff
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GIVE POWER TO THE PEOPLEREAD»

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Five Ways Obama Could Best Spend His $1.4M in Nobel Cash

BY Jennifer Vilaga
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The Fast Company staff offers five from-the-hip ideas of organizations that could use Obama's chunk of change to make a massive impact. READ»

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Obama To Attend Copenhagen Climate Change Conference

BY Fiona Robbins
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Barack Obama will be attending the Copenhagen climate change conference after much speculation.It is suggested that he will attend the conference on 9th December, before appearing in Oslo the following day to accept his Nobel Peace ...READ»

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Our Fellow Americans ...

BY The Spy
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A Spy in the House of WorkREAD»

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10 Things You Didn't Know About Women

BY Polly LaBarre
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Ten things you didn't know about women, and a review of Clay Christensen's new book.READ»

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Credit For All

BY Fast Company Staff
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For Muhammad Yunus, founder of the Grameen Bank who just won the Nobel Peace Prize, access to credit is a human right. Providing credit to the world’s poor, Yunus believes, clashes with the profit-maximizing goal of conventional ...READ»

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Create A New Category – Build A Profitable Niche

BY Kaihan Krippendorff
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On Wednesday I started an examination of an investment strategy firm that specializes in microfinance, Minlam Asset Management. As I interviewed one of Minlam’s founders, Mike Hokenson, I noticed a reoccurring theme that I see ...READ»

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Why the FCC's Broadband Plan Will Struggle to Connect with the Public

BY Addy Dugdale
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Today is when the FCC delivers its National Broadband Strategy to Congress. We've already had some sneak peeks at the deets, such kitting 100 million households out with super-fast speeds with either a free or lo-cost version, getting ...READ»

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Obama Backtreads, Nominates Agri-Biz Lobbyists to Key Posts

BY Ariel Schwartz
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Well, that didn't take long. The afterglow of Obama's Nobel Peace Prize win for "extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between people" has already faded. The President has stirred up controversy ...READ»

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Are CO2 Emissions From Deforestation Exaggerated?

BY Ariel Schwartz
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It's easy to shrug off climate change deniers who use incomplete or inaccurate data in their arguments, but it's a harder pill to swallow when supposedly reputable organizations dupe us with exaggerated claims. Yet that's exactly ...READ»

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Laptops for Kids and Shared Village-wide Cell Phones can Fight Systemic Deep Poverty

BY Shel Horowitz
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Negroponte and Quadir: How Laptops and Cell Phones Attack Systemic Poverty in Developing CountriesREAD»

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A More Powerful Path

BY Cheryl Dahle
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Changing the way we think about change--and bringing business into the act.READ»

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Bosses from Hell

BY Fast Company Staff
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A rogue's gallery of the manipulative, abusive, grandiose -- and downright crooked -- executives who have strutted their way across the stage of American business.READ»

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Nokia Siemens Sued by Iranian Activist for Aiding Government Spying

BY Austin Carr
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Iran's Green Movement might want to consider switching to BlackBerry for its call-to-action tweets.READ»

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Pop! Till You Drop

BY Anya Kamenetz
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For a decade, Pop!Tech has brought together luminaries, wizards, writers, entrepreneurs, and other brainiacs to try to outhink the world's problems. This year's no different.READ»

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A Baltic Cruise - Part Six - Arhus, Denmark and Oslo

BY randi420 box
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One Sunday we returned to Denmark, as our boat anchored in Arhus, an attractive city university. Among the 300,000 inhabitants are 40,000 students. There was a lot of high schools on the pier to welcome you to the port in Aarhus Havn. ...READ»

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Jack Welch, A Proponent of Conscious Capitalism?

BY Lewis Perkins
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Right now, denizens of young corporate leaders and entrepreneurs who are fighting the good fight –getting investors and their corporate leaders on board with new and more sustainable ways to view business – are perking up at the recent words from former GE Chairman and CEO, Jack Welch. If you have been reading my blog, you have followed my discussions of sustainability as a part of corporate consciousness for the past months. Today, I was pointed towards the latest word from Mr. Welch, publically stating that it was “a dumb idea” for executives to focus so heavily on quarterly profits and share price gains. Wait, wasn’t it Welch who originally created the “shareholder value movement” in the early 80s? READ»

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Work/Life: If Confucius Were Alive Today

BY Tom Stern
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Today is the birth anniversary of Confucius. The influential philosopher was born in 551 BC, and, unlike me, is pretty much synonymous with sage advice and deep meaning. The very phrase “Confucius say…” prepares us for ...READ»

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Bad Apple: Censoring the Dalai Lama in China iPhone Apps

BY Kit Eaton
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Oh dear--this isn't going to end well, and it's a shame. Apple, which usually enjoys a rosy-tinted PR glow, has soured its image by censoring iPhone apps that relate to the Dalai Lama in China.READ»

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