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Glamorous Celebrity Deaths and Minimal Taxes in 2010 :: Women on.

Women on Business

These estates were set to owe no taxes because tax law passed by the Bush Administration in 2001 and 2003 gradually increased the estate tax exemption over ten years while lowering the estate tax rate, and allowed for the estate tax to disappear completely in 2010. billion estate. I think most celebrities and tycoons will agree.

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The U.S. Startup Economy Is in Both Better and Worse Shape than We Thought

Harvard Business Review

A new restaurant or dry cleaner probably won’t end up hiring thousands of employees or commercializing new technology. To determine which new firms are likely to grow, Guzman and Stern developed an algorithm that predicts the chances of a startup going public or being acquired for a significant sum.

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New Ways to Collaborate for Process Improvement

Harvard Business Review

Emerging social networking technologies offer new ways to overcome these boundaries. Since 2001, IBM has used jams to get 300,000 employees and others around the world to explore and solve problems. ValuesJam in 2003 gave IBM's workforce the opportunity to redefine the firm's core values for the first time in nearly 100 years.

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Consumer Warning Labels Aren’t Working

Harvard Business Review

In 2001 the U.S. A 2003 U.S. Going forward, we must remember that in our time of revolutionary technological progress, almost any innovation brings minor risks along with its benefits. A second example is warnings related to mercury in seafood. Food and Drug Administration and the U.S.

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What I Learned About Coaching After Losing the Ability to Speak

Harvard Business Review

I was diagnosed with ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease) in 2001. By 2003 I could no longer speak intelligibly or walk, and any muscle control became more difficult as the disease progressed. Take, for instance, my IM exchanges with a technology manager at a financial services firm. Marion Barraud for HBR. Manage the feedback flow.

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A Shared Purpose Drives Collaboration

Harvard Business Review

Yet, companies and executives spend endless amounts of time and money trying to foster collaboration through technology, training, and memos instead of quickly defining the problem, framing the challenges, and inspiring people to come together and tackle it. Let’s remind ourselves of three outstanding examples of collaboration.

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How Software Is Helping Big Companies Dominate

Harvard Business Review

Even outside of the tech sector, the employment of more software developers is associated with a greater increase in industry concentration, and this relationship appears to be causal. All of this suggests that technology, and specifically software, is behind the growing dominance of big companies. Most industries in the U.S.