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The Success of Dumb Starbucks Suggests Dumb IRS Can't Be Too Far Behind, As Long As It Isn't Confusingly Similar.

Women 2.0 conference panel moderator and VC Charles Hudson on how to get into a career with no traditional on ramp.

Lawsuit challenging JPMorgan's $13 billion settlement has the right idea, wrong legal arguments.

We speak too glibly and too innocently about innovation and disruption. Innovation does spawn some good things. Disruption and “creative destruction” can often be manipulated into something beneficial. But it's help...

Over the last two weeks, we saw two interesting innovations in the financial services industry introduced – by the federal government.   During his State of the Union address, President Obama introduced “MyRA” a ...

Among the companies whose shares are expected to see active trade in Wednesday's session are Deere, Cisco Systems, and CBS.

Talent is the primary source of sustainable competitive advantage -- especially in the high tech industries, which compete on innovation. That’s why talent recruitment and retention is the most important aspect in thei...

The IRS's new "simplified" method may not be best for you.

Sir Terry Leahy is to join the board of Starcount, where the former Tesco boss will be reunited with the founders of Dunnhumby, master mindsof the supermarket group's loyalty card success

Who is looking over your tax preparer's shoulder?

How does your customer get from Point A to sale? Use these 5 steps to figure that out.

The iconic child actress never went to college but became a diplomat. Would such career moves have survived the Twitter airwaves?

Artiman invests in white space companies that are in large markets with no identifiable competitors.

I have to admit that the Budweiser Super Bowl spot, "Puppy Love", hit home with me on many levels -- two in particular.

Editor's Note: This interview is one in a series produced by the Skoll World Forum with the participation of today’s leading thinkers and innovators in education.  All of the contributors represent projects that have...

Flappy Bird, a free, ad-showing smartphone app game created by Dong Nguyen, has been blowing up the media lately. After the game went viral and Nguyen began receiving tons of attention and ad revenue (to the tune of $50,...

Square has struck its first partnership with a national grocer, an important step ahead of its expected IPO this year.

Think about the last time you punished someone. In cracking down on their bad behavior, did you just address the offending act, or did you work to understand and address what caused the behavior in the first place? Linco...

This article is by Daniel Newman, founder of BroadSuite Consulting and author of "The Millennial CEO."

What SWAM means: If a moderator in any group flags a participant?s posts as unwelcome for any reason?real, imagined, temporarily or even by mistake?all future posts by the participant are also sent to the moderation pena...

The ?grand slam? of wine and entrepreneurship seen at Fearrington Village, while thrilling in a slow-burn kind of way, doesn?t have the same quite the same smack but it scores in the way that matters: on the bottom line ...

This article is by Nigel Hollis, executive VP, Millward Brown.