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Thank You For Your Service (My Proudest Guest Post Ever!)

Mills Scofield

As a soldier deployed for my ninth time since the events of September 11, 2001 I’ve seen firsthand the amazing impact something as simple as a letter can have on the human spirit. ” It is a remarkable sight, to be sure.

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Top 27 Steampunk Watches: Men’s & Women’s Best Skeleton Watches

Miles Anthony Smith

Steampunk is a really clever hybrid of old-fashioned designs and sci-fi inspired futuristic technology. It's the centerpiece of numerous video games, like the 2001 hit " Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura ," from Troika Games. The Invicta Men's 1088 Russian Diver Skeleton Watch looks like it's straight out of a James Bond movie.

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How Chinese Subsidies Changed the World

Harvard Business Review

Last week, LDK Solar , a struggling Chinese manufacturer of solar wafers and panels, announced that it had missed $24 million in bond payments. This news followed the bankruptcy in March of Wuxi Suntech , the main operating subsidiary of the world''s largest maker of solar panels, after it defaulted on a $541 million bond payment.

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Even Senior Executives Need a Side Hustle

Harvard Business Review

Intrigued by technology and innovation, Achan took the initiative to develop two iPhone apps. But as I discovered in 2001, when I was laid off from my newspaper job abruptly, with only a week’s severance pay, it’s good to have options. How did he make this unusual career leap?

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5 Ways the Best Companies Close the Strategy-Execution Gap

Harvard Business Review

Take Dell Technologies, for example. Webvan was forced to cease operations by 2001. Think of strategy as a portfolio of options, not bonds. The traditional plan-then-do model treats the value of any strategy like a bond.

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A Couple Reasons to Smile About

Women on Business

The Bush cuts also gradually raised the estate exemption and lowered the estate tax from 2001 until 2010, when the estate tax disappeared for that year only. Barring any Congressional action to change this law, taxes were set to revert back to their pre-2001 rates on January 1, 2011.

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What Alan Greenspan Has Learned Since 2008

Harvard Business Review

The technology-stock bubble of the late 1990s and its subsequent deflation were among the defining events of Greenspan’s tenure. The dot-com boom when it collapsed, you can’t find it in the GDP figures in 2001, 2002. I scratched my head a little at that statement about 2001-2002, since there was a recession in those years.