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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. Extended many energy and business credits and incentives, such as the Research & Development credit. People are optimistic–almost happy!–and

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Growing Entrepreneurs And Entrepreneurship: Lessons From Estonia

The Horizons Tracker

It was originated by the energy company Eesti Energia and developed a four-step methodology to engender an entrepreneurial mindset in students ranging from 13 to 19 years of age. These efforts hope to succeed where Bringing Talent Home, which was an initiative run between 2010 and 2012, failed. ” Broad horizons.

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Is Leadership Development the Answer to Low Employee Engagement? (Yes.)

N2Growth Blog

A 2012 Custom Insight survey revealed that 49% of workers cited problems with their direct supervisor as their reason for disengagement. Some may be engineers, marketers, finance directors, or salespersons. We’ve also learned that learners don’t commit time and energy to any program, course, or event. Business moves along.

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Clean Energy Can Fuel Competitiveness

Harvard Business Review

energy industries, from oil and gas to ethanol, wind, and solar, have long enjoyed lavish government subsidies and other support. One reason that clean energy tends to be more expensive than fossil fuel is that it can be. But those days are coming to an end. As long as it's subsidized, there is little pressure to compete on price.

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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 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. billion estate.

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Employees Donate More to Their CEOs’ Preferred Political Candidates

Harvard Business Review

For example, in our sample, if CEOs contributed to either Barack Obama or Mitt Romney in the 2012 election, their employees contributed approximately two times more to the candidate the CEO supported than to his opponent (see Figure 1). Let’s look at one example: In 2012 Robert E. In fact, 95.5%

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Does Silicon Valley Still Care About Climate Change?

Harvard Business Review

Ten years after Kleiner star John Doerr was moved to tears during his TED talk about climate change , there’s no longer any question that VCs’ interest in clean energy is waning. as the most attractive market worldwide for renewable energy investment, this year downgraded it to third , behind China and India.