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Academic research in the past has shown that the children of families on welfare are more likely to grow up to be on welfare themselves. But it isn't just poverty and poor health that are causing this.  A new NBER study...

Electronic cigarettes, better known as e-cigarettes, have grown into a billion-dollar industry in the past year. While this is small compared to the $35 billion in profit the leading tobacco companies made in 2010, the e...

Pleasant smells abound at the workspace for Food52, a startup media company bringing inspiration to food lovers in a whole new way.  Former New York Times food editor Amanda Hesser and writer Merrill Stubbs founded Foo...

America has an ample number of leaders, in the workplace and in politics. But unfortunately, what many of these leaders are actually doing is "leadIng."

We read of Goldman Sachs investment bank "giving back" at record levels in philanthropy -- $1.6 billion (that's billion, not million) since 2008 -- and we sigh. While it is fitting and proper that Goldman does penance fo...

Citi's Panic/Euphoria model has a pretty extraordinary track record for predicting returns. It's a contrarian indicator, which means a "euphoria" signal is bearish and a "panic" signal is bullish.  According to Citi, th...

This could have been worse — much, much, worse. A college student completely blew one of the most important moments in anyone's professional career — his introduction to the first 'someone' that could help him get hi...

The newest park benches in Boston require instructions.     

Five guidelines for leaders facing a mess.

At a recent speech in Denver, Drug Policy Alliance executive director Ethan Nadelmann declared that we've hit "the tipping point" on marijuana policy. With Colorado and Washington getting ready for the first ever legal, ...

Tax expenses of BMW has declined, but performance was affected by high spending on technology and competition

Adil Popat, the Group CEO of Simba Corporation, talks about the state of tourism and investment in the country.

Facebook's latest earnings report does show that the company's revenues are growing at an impressive rate. But a comparison of Facebook to the average revenue growth rate of past IPOs shows Facebook to be growing no fast...

(Reuters) - IT services firm Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp reported a better-than-expected 22 percent rise in quarterly revenue as businesses, especially financial firms and companies in Europe, outsourced more wor...

In the lead up to the 2013 Igniting Innovation Summit on Social Entrepreneurship, the Skoll World Forum is featuring the ideas and innovations of several speakers and delegates, all of whom are writing on entrepreneur...

Congress, not the IRS, needs to step up stop political operators from abusing a formerly obscure part of the tax code to collect money from anonymous donors and distribute it to other groups, thus creating additional lay...

What does it take to turn boring, prosaic products such as thermostats and smoke detectors into objects of desire? Way more than creating a cool app and scraping together money for hardware from Kickstarter, like too man...

Getting a small business off the ground is no easy task. If you've heard the old adage, "It takes money to make money," nowhere is it truer than when starting a business. This is particularly true for the smallest of sma...

Even the shortest form of internet communication that I know of, a tweet, isn?t really only 140 characters long. The best tweets always have a link to something longer. (This assumes, of course, that you?re on Twitter to...

Cities across the country are eager to build or strengthen their startup communities, and when entrepreneurs thrive, so do their local economies. We?ve gathered six lessons we've learned that could help other communities...

Even if he declined to talk about what we all wanted to hear about--Twitter, which is expected to go public Thursday--Jack Dorsey had a lot to say about his philosophy of attacking a problem and forming a company to solv...

In light of the upcoming Twitter IPO, it?s important to look back on the company?s immense impact on the news industry. The introduction and proliferation of Twitter, and the subsequent effects, cannot be overstated. In ...