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

Women on Business

However, since the new tax changes are only in effect from January 1, 2010 until December 31, 2012, we may face another estate tax controversy down the road. So at least in the short term, we have a solution to the estate tax dilemma.

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Study: Employees Want Employers to Talk Politics

Harvard Business Review

In fact, since we began our outreach and monitoring, we have seen a fourfold increase in employer-to-employee political communications, from 5% of the private workforce hearing from their employer about politics in 2000 to over 20% in 2008. In the 2011-2012 Market Research Report for BIPAC , performed by Moore Information, Inc.,

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Why Our Trust in Banks Hasn’t Been Restored

Harvard Business Review

Since the financial crisis of 2008, a major question has been how banks can restore the trust of their clients. For example, JP Morgan has hired an additional 13,000 people in the area of compliance since 2012. To address this concern, banks have been hiring an increasing number of compliance officers.

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JP Morgan's Loss: Bigger than "Risk Management"

Harvard Business Review

The recent disclosure of a multi-billion dollar trading loss at JPMorgan Chase reminds us again of the challenge and complexity of risk management, the subject of our June 2012 HBR article, "Managing Risks: A New Framework." Many people, including quite a few U.S. But was it?

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McDonald’s Has to Do More than Manipulate Its Stock Price

Harvard Business Review

The company’s executives said that to help finance the plan, McDonald’s would increase refranchising (turning company-owned restaurants into franchises), take on more debt (even at the risk of lowering its bond rating ), and find $300 million to cut in general and administrative expenses. The winners.

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Viral By Design: Teams in the Networked World

Harvard Business Review

Everyone and everything is connected or soon will be by social media, on mobile platforms, and in the cloud. But no less planned or executed than another viral blockbuster — the OMGPOP team's March 2012 breakout of Draw Something , a Pictionary-like game. Achieving those effects is no accident. The Invisible Children, Inc.

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A Couple Reasons to Smile About

Women on Business

These tax rates will remain in effect through 2012. Extends the repeal of phase-outs of personal deductions and limits on itemized deductions for higher income taxpayers through 2012. Extends certain middle class incentives and credits such as the Earned Income Credit and Coverdell Education Savings credit.