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

Women on Business

What’s worse is that barring any Congressional action on this, the Bush law mandated that the estate tax would return in 2011–at 55% with an estate exemption of $1 million, the lowest exemption amount we’ve seen for many years. So at least in the short term, we have a solution to the estate tax dilemma.

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HBR's Most Popular Blog Posts of 2011

Harvard Business Review

As 2011 comes to a close, the editors of HBR.org are taking a look back at the most popular blog posts of the year to find out what most preoccupied you, our readers. HBR's 11 Most Popular Blog Posts of 2011. Five Things You Should Stop Doing in 2012. The concept of reverse innovation applies in finance, as well.

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Community Financing Breathes Life into a New U.S. Manufacturing Firm

Harvard Business Review

Seed-stage financing for technology start-ups fell from 16% of total annual private equity investment in 1995 to just 1% in 2002 and recovered to only 4% in 2011, according to data compiled by PriceWaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association. Where did all that money go? based labor. manufacturing jobs.

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Big Pharma's Mixed Modes of Growth

Harvard Business Review

In March 2012, for example, Chris Viehbacher, CEO of Sanofi-Aventis, told an audience at the CED Life Sciences Conference that "the best people who have great ideas in science don't want to work for a big company. Members of the PhRMA spent almost $50 billion on R&D in 2011, maintaining a peak that they reached in 2008.

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A 7-Step Process to Achieving Your Goals

Harvard Business Review

It's the first work week of 2012, and from what I see on Twitter, lots of folks are jumping into the New Year with a resolution or two. You're going to end up with a very asymmetric list: one row might be "Annual report on sustainability" and the next might be "Fill out Nov 2011 expense report."

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Should You Move for a Job?

Harvard Business Review

Census Bureau announced that the percentage of Americans who changed residences between 2010 and 2011 — 11.6 Of workers who were laid off in 2011 and found new jobs, 20 percent relocated to a new city or state. And 32 percent of employers reported they would be willing to pay to relocate new employees in 2012.

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How Organic Wine Finally Caught On

Harvard Business Review

As organic wine pioneer Jonathan Frey remarked in an interview, “These large companies would finance scientific studies to prove that organic was a joke and didn’t have any health benefits.” European legislation finally emerged for organic wine in 2012, allowing producers to add sulfites up to a certain maximum level.