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

Women on Business

Houston energy magnate Dan Duncan who died earlier this year had an estimated net worth of $9 billion, and television industry mogul John Kluge died with a $6.5 George Steinbrenner alone was worth $1.2 billion estate.

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Do Commodities Speculators Make Things Cost More?

Harvard Business Review

Ke Tang of Renmin University of China and Wei Xiong of Princeton University found that prices in non-energy commodities have begun to move in tandem with oil prices, and have become more volatile. It seems pretty clear that the big rise in oil prices since 2003 has been driven by fundamental forces of supply and demand.

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The Tempting of Rajat Gupta

Harvard Business Review

from 1994 to 2003. It was hard not to notice, too, that by the end of Gupta's tenure — Firm rules limited him to three terms — major clients had begun to get into well-publicized trouble, most notably Enron, whose CEO had been head of McKinsey's energy practice. Let us be fair to the man and the firm he headed.