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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.

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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. What Guzman and Stern add is a method for identifying the firms that are trying to grow. “A doubling of entrepreneurial quality predicts an increase of 6.8%

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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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The Tempting of Rajat Gupta

Harvard Business Review

from 1994 to 2003. Between 1994 when he was first elected and 2001, in his third term, the Firm more than doubled its number of consultants (3,300 to 7,700), partners (425 to 891), and annual revenues ($1.5 As technology makes networks tighter and easier to put together, does the risk of contagion increase proportionally?

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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.

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A Study of 16 Countries Shows That the Most Productive Firms (and Their Employees) Are Pulling Away from Everyone Else

Harvard Business Review

Indeed, the gap between firms in the top 10% by productivity and those in the bottom 10% increased by approximately 14% from 2001 to 2012. In the afterword to his 2003 book, Wage Dispersion , Nobel Prize winner Dale Mortensen argued that productivity differences could cause wage dispersion: “Why are similar workers paid differently?