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5 First Steps to App Adoption
Dear Professor Investor, I have come up with a never-been-done-yet app idea that is really legitimate. What's next? Beth from Washington, DC =========================================== Congratulations...
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How Good is TIAA-CREF?
A year ago I posed that question in a blog entry for Beacon Press, the publisher of my Social Insecurity: 401(k)s and the Retirement Crisis. I wrote that "TIAA-CREF, the retirement plan of many...
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A New Approach for Multinational Corporations and Social Enterprises to...
You might think the following is a familiar scenario: partnerships between multi-billion dollar corporations and social enterprises to serve the poor. The usual arrangement looks something like this:...
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Building a Brighter Future -- Powered by Renewable Energy
It is impossible to succeed in today's economy without access to energy. But for an estimated 1.3 billion people, mostly in the developing world, electric power is still out of reach. Even among those...
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What Should Janet Yellen's Fed Do?
The big question hovering over the markets (both stocks and bonds), is whether the Federal Reserve will finally begin to raise short term interest rates at next week's FOMC meeting. Markets are...
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Environmental Concern Empowers the People
Environmental awareness, once enjoyed only by a niche group within society, has mushroomed in the last decade so that today it directly drives changes in consumers' purchasing behaviors. Only 30 years...
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Great Danes Leading by Example on Renewable Energy
Addressing the World's growing demand for energy will be one of the major challenges in the coming decades. Already today, the global demand for affordable, reliable and sustainable energy is not met...
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Bridging the Energy Divide
Energy is fundamental to economic growth and environmental sustainability. Sustainable Development Goal 7 -- "Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy for all" --...
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For Now, The Fed's New Normal: Preserve the Old Abnormal
Forget about whether Serena Williams will make history in the U.S. Open for a moment; there is a bigger question hanging over the head of another powerful woman. In the run up to the meeting of the...
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Amazon and the Warrior Virtues
Do you need a work environment that pushes you relentlessly to be tougher and better at what you do? Is it good to have harsh feedback and to be pressured during all your waking hours? Will that make...
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Hedge Fund Billionaires vs. Kindergarten Teachers: Whose Side Are You On?
Below is a live stream of Hedge Fund Billionaires vs. Kindergarten Teachers: Whose Side Are You On?, a new video from Brave New Films on the carried interest tax loophole. A screening of this film will...
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The $17.7 Billion Hedge Fund Managers Are Stealing From Kindergarten Teachers
It is September. School is starting and kindergarten teachers across the nation are making their way back to their students. Many are buying supplies for their students from their own stressed...
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It's Time to Close the Carried Interest Loophole
The rampant inequality that we face in America is no accident. It is the result of a system that, for too long, has rewarded existing wealth over work. There is no more striking example of this...
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How to Handle a Bad Media Interview
Image Credit: UberTopic When business owners are able to strike an interview with a media outlet, it is usually an exciting venture that promises a great deal of much-needed publicity. However, not all...
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How to Take Advantage of the Gig-Based Economy
Thanks to evolving technology, increasing communication capabilities, and changing business needs, the world of employer-employee relationships is drastically changing. The old model of employment was...
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Why the U.S. Should Dedicate a New Statue of Liberty to Europe
BERLIN -- The refugees from Syria seeking asylum in Europe are changing the geopolitical and geo-cultural landscape. The famous words of Emma Lazarus etched into the Statue of Liberty in New York...
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Recalibrating Purpose
In my quest for a goalless life, I have taken the opportunity to recalibrate the purpose of my work and check-in with what I am in service of. I asked myself the following questions:What are the 3...
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We Can Do Better: Business Travel, Stress and Family
My son was an infant, but I had a long-term change management consulting project in London. I would bounce between California and the UK for weeks at a time. One day I came home to my own son afraid of...
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5 Things Entrepreneurs Should Do Every Day to Grow a Business
Certain daily habits can add up over time to help your business grow. Entrepreneurs have a certain drive to improve things. They want to create, revise, sculpt, and nurture a business to new heights,...
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Hamilton: A Life Fit For the Stage
From humble beginnings, a new musical has moved onto Broadway this July. Quite fitting, in a way, for the story of an American who was all about moving onward and upward. The play is called Hamilton,...
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