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

Women on Business

These estates were set to owe no taxes because tax law passed by the Bush Administration in 2001 and 2003 gradually increased the estate tax exemption over ten years while lowering the estate tax rate, and allowed for the estate tax to disappear completely in 2010. So at least in the short term, we have a solution to the estate tax dilemma.

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What U2 and the US Navy Have in Common: Connecting with Core Employees

Michael Lee Stallard

To Boost Organizational Performance, Connect with the Core Michael Lee Stallard and Jason Pankau It is essential to every organization’s long-term success that employees align their behavior with organizational goals and give their best efforts. Connecting with core employees is essential to a leader’s long-term success.

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CEOs Need Courage

Harvard Business Review

But everyone else was making similar loans and as long as they could be off-loaded through securitization, the company could continue to make money and was under pressure to do what all the other major banks were doing. If the analyst didn't like the fact that this might constrain profits in the short term, he could sell the stock.

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The Swedish CEO Who Runs His Company Like a CrossFit Gym

Harvard Business Review

What happened to being rewarded for consistent, quality work over the long-term? This hasn’t gone unnoticed by some leaders, and a new generation of CEOs taking a cue from this last bastion of the Protestant work ethic. There is perhaps one place where this paradigm still exists: the gym.

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The Costs of Racial Disparities in Health Care

Harvard Business Review

Leaders in government, business, and health care must address these persistent disparities at the national, state, and local levels, as both an ethical and an economic imperative. The costs of screening more middle-aged adults can be largely offset by long-term Medicare savings in preventing colorectal cancer, which is expensive to treat.

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It's Your Country.Lead It!

Coaching Tip

For our children's future, America needs to get better by reengineering our shared values and implementing a united ethical purpose. The squeeze on middle America promises to be long lasting without change. . a year between 2001 and 2007 and plunged by 26.2% in the following two years. A researcher for Procter & Gamble Co.

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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

Not long after, you took aim at the coffee bean itself, ruling out the seeds that didn’t quite fit your strict flavour and aroma standards. It wasn’t long before the competition matched Nabob’s vacuum pack, says Bell. That’s when the brand shifted its strategy, once again, and developed the long-standing “Better Beans.

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