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What to Do When You’re Returning to a Company You Used to Work For

Harvard Business Review

After working at the Bateman Group, the San Francisco–based PR agency for three years, Amy Ziari left the company because she got the “startup bug” and wanted professional experiences beyond PR. Bridget Forney enjoyed working at her first employer, Profiles, the Baltimore-based PR agency. She returned in 2015.

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How Reddit the Business Lost Touch With Reddit the Culture

Harvard Business Review

Fourth, Reddit initiated the 2013 online protests against SOPA/PIPA that led to major websites sites shutting down for a day in protest. Viewed that way, the community unrest is a PR problem, or an issue to be addressed through the usual business incentives, perhaps by starting to pay the mods who are wrangling the subreddits.

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We’re All Terrible at Understanding Each Other

Harvard Business Review

The founder and former CEO and Chairman of Lululemon Atheltica is, in point of fact, a highly successful entrepreneur, philanthropist, innovator, and self-made billionaire. But a 2013 Bloomberg TV interview with him and his wife Shannon, Lululemon’s original athletic wear designer, was not one of his finest moments.

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A Couple Reasons to Smile About

Women on Business

Review your investment portfolio to identify certain appreciated positions to sell now before taxes potentially increase in 2013. Medicare tax that will be imposed on certain investment income for higher income Americans beginning in 2013. The Social Security tax holiday is designed to leave more money in our paychecks.

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Top 10 Sustainable Business Stories of 2012

Harvard Business Review

It's unclear if any of these human and PR disasters will affect the companies downstream, but transparency and knowledge about the lives of the people who make our products will continue to rise. Five Questions For 2013. on to 2013. Data gets bigger and faster: PepsiCo and Columbia speed up lifecycle assessments.