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

Women on Business

As we read year-end and best-of 2010 articles and watch the tribute shows, take a moment to try to add up the cumulative wealth of those being remembered. And given the ballooning size of the US deficit, how much in revenue did our government almost miss out on because Congress forgot to fix the estate tax? billion estate. billion estate.

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Nabob and the Coffee Kerfuffle: How the 120-year-old brand managed to maintain its challenger status.

In the CEO Afterlife

This article was written by Jennifer Horn for the June 2016 issue of Strategy Magazine. It made sense, because we looked at the competition as our well-financed enemy, and so there was no way we could win at the spending war,” says Bell. “So Nabob, you’re a feisty fella.

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Research: Business School Really Does Influence How Students Make Decisions Later On

Harvard Business Review

But how well schools meet this goal, and to what extent their teaching influences their students’ leadership, is an open question. This changed after Peter Dolan (Dartmouth, 1980) took the helm in 2001. In another supplementary analysis, we used the rankings of finance departments in business schools.

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What 20 Years as a Remote Organization Has Taught Us About Managing Remote Teams

Harvard Business Review

Clarke painted a picture of how computers would change our way of life by the year 2001. As a leadership team, we strive to maintain consistency in the outcomes for each role so everyone knows exactly where the bar is and that it is not going to change unexpectedly. In his 1974 interview with ABC News , science fiction author Arthur C.

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"Having It All" Is Not a Women's Issue

Harvard Business Review

The resonance of Anne-Marie Slaughter's Atlantic article is testimony to how far we've come since 1987, when I began talking about work and family in my Wharton School classes. What's significant is the article's symbolic value and how it addresses current intergenerational differences in attitudes and experiences.

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The IRS Just Sent Me $160,000. Can I Keep It?

Harvard Business Review

Sure, I could probably contribute to economic growth more directly, by buying a better car (if they actually now make a better car than my 2001 Ford Windstar) and a bigger TV. In the July-August 2010 edition of HBR, Clay Christensen wrote a remarkable article, How Will You Measure Your Life? Then there's a third consideration.

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Many CEOs Aren’t Breakthrough Innovators (and That’s OK)

Harvard Business Review

We’ve found that CEOs of big pharmaceutical companies, for example, are more likely to have a background as company lawyers, salespeople, or finance managers, than one in medicine or pharmaceutical R&D. For example, Terry Semel, who succeeded Tim Koogle as CEO of Yahoo in 2001, had a media marketing background at Warner Brothers.

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