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Karen Dillon, author of the "HBR Guide to Office Politics," talks with Dorie Clark, author of "Reinventing You."

Today's advice comes from entrepreneur Lewis Howes via his post on Entrepreneur: "I was a pain most of my childhood, always mad at the things I didn't have. Things shifted drastically in my 20s when I started putting an ...

There's still a great deal of skepticism out there about how big the market potential is for wearables -- gadgets like smartwatches, connected fitness bands, and smart eyewear. At BI Intelligence, Business Insider's paid...

India's central bank says it will sell US dollars to the three state-run oil firms in its latest attempt to stem the decline in the Indian rupee.

Chicago-based sandwich maker Potbelly Corp. has filed for a $75 million initial public offering of common stock.

Carlos Tavares, the French automaker's operating chief and a possible successor to Carlos Ghosn, stepped down amid speculation he might head for Detroit.

Once upon a time, somewhere between Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory and Final Destination 3, there was an amusement park that defied all logic, safety standards...

Facebook's splashy debut raised the second-most money of any American company since 1986.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Being short on cash may make you a bit slower in the brain, a new study suggests.

This article is by Erich Joachimsthaler, CEO of Vivaldi Partners Group.

Gil Kerlikowske is director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (in more common parlance, America's "Drug Czar.") He was recently nominated to be commissioner of Customs and Border Protection. So th...

What's wrong with the patent system? Most people cite problems with patent trolls or low patent quality. But a recent study by the Government Accountability Office makes it clear that the real problem is more specific: P...

GENEVA (AP) -- The chairman of the Zurich Insurance Group abruptly resigned Thursday over the apparent suicide of its chief financial officer, claiming he wants to avoid damaging the company's reputation.

Gay rights groups have poured bottles of Coca Cola down the drain in a protest at Times Square in New York.

BANGKOK (AP) -- Asian stock markets rebounded Thursday as jitters began to ease about a possible international military response to the Syrian conflict.

Qantas Airways reported a modest 5 million Australian dollar ($4.5 million) annual profit Thursday as cost cuts offset losses at its international arm.

A serial rapist who terrorized women in California in the 1970s and 1980s is getting released into LA County because he's in a mental hospital that offers "conditional release" for supposedly rehabilitated offenders. If ...

Celebrity Cruises will replace the problematic propulsion motor on Celebrity Millennium, a fix that will allow the ship to return to service on Sept. 22.

U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron suffered a big blow late Thursday, as Britain's House of Commons rejected his motion for military action in Syria as a response to a deadly chemical weapons attack by the Assad regime la...

Tonight, David Letterman is celebrating 20 years on CBS in part with Bill Murray, who was Letterman's first ever guest. Exciting right? What kind of insanity will Murray get up to? You'll never guess! Murray is so unpred...

POWA Technologies founder and CEO Dan Wagner (image: wikipedia) In the UK?s ongoing push to up its entrepreneurial credentials, the Bank of England found itself being called to ease up on taxing young businesses. The cri...

The IRS has announced how it will be handling same-sex marriages in light of the Supreme Court's ruling in the Edith Windsor case. In the Windsor decision, the Court ruled that Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act, w...