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“Liar loans,” described as loans that don’t meet Small Business Association (SBA) criteria yet get approved anyway, are a continuing problem for the organization. The Office of the Inspector General (OIG) has relea...

Colin Powell once said that "capital is a coward," and the data shows that foreign private investment generally waits a decade before re-entering post-conflict countries. Yet the world can't wait that long.  This blog p...

Given the fiscal chasm between the House and Senate budgets, a big deal in three months is far beyond reach. But policymakers might actually get to yes on a mini-deal. Here's how.

In short, companies can assess the investment in leadership development most readily through measurable improvements afterwards in the way leaders lead. That improvement should be apparent to subordinates, peers and boss...

Workplace lies run the gamut, from small, everyday lies to whoppers, from benign (even helpful) to destructive. Here are the 10 major categories of lies with examples of each.

The idea of stand-up meetings isn't new; a colleague was advocating them over 15 years ago. Yet I've seen some recent articles about using stand-up meetings as an easy solution to make your meetings more productive.

Colin Powell once said that "capital is a coward," and the data shows that foreign private investment generally waits a decade before re-entering post-conflict countries. Yet the world can't wait that long.  This blog p...

At its core, data-driven marketing centers on one thing and one thing only: propelling value by engaging customers more effectively. That may sound straightforward at first, but I can assure you, the task is anything but...

CMOs had a chance to get up close and personal with the visionaries at some of the tech world's most exciting companies at the latest Forbes CMO Network Excursion to Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers' Menlo Park, Calf., off...

JPMorgan's new policies are more about generating fees than they are about capital control.

Silk Road competitor Black Market Reloaded was shut down after a hacker revealed the site's code online.

Wherever you may stand on the climate change debate (cue the angry comments!), it's undeniable that Mother Nature has grown a bit unpredictable in exacting her revenge for hairspray and Styrofoam. Superstorms in New Jers...

If you would make an exception for the exceptional, consider treating the item as a reward to be earned rather than a policy to guard against.

Burberry just lost its top innovator to Apple - CEO Angela Ahrendts. Luckily for Burberry, they aren't losing a leader of a lesser caliber. (And no, that last sentence does not have a typo.)

The general consensus among website analytics experts is that 20% of tags on most websites for companies big and small are tagged incorrectly. Provo, Utah startup ObservePoint has found that this discrepancy can amount t...

We're all familiar with survival of the fittest, but what makes someone at work 'the fittest'? Over 150 years since Darwin wrote ?On the Origin of Species?, researchers are still fascinated by how we as a species adapt t...

Transforming scaffolding into pop-up social hubs.

Designers Hoke and Chambers urban innovation studio, Softwalks, introduces ideas to make sidewalk scaffolding shelters more people-friendly.

Billed as the brewery that brought beer back to Brooklyn, the story of Brooklyn Brewery is as varied as borough. While living in Cairo as a foreign correspondent for the Associated Press, cofounder Steve Hindy picked up ...

Final part of a 4 post series on how small businesses can manage big data.

I recently spoke with veteran financial services analyst Sanjib Kalita, who is now in a cat bird seed of money trends. Kalita is the marketing head of Money 2020, an annual summit with a topic that?s hard for any markete...

Healthcare is miles behind the curve when it comes to technological innovation, an industry that historically has not been easy to innovate for. This month's implementation of Obamacare, however, is just one of several m...