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Hoyt Harper, Sr. VP, Global Brand Leader, Sheraton Hotels & Resorts Group

April 23, 2013 admin All Conversations, Business & Economics, Uncategorized

It’s what every company in the world – big and small – wants. It drives revenue. Cuts expense. Extends reach. Delivers happiness. And separates winners

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Lori Greiner, Shark Tank & QVC

December 21, 2012 admin All Conversations, Business & Economics, Culture, Uncategorized

My next conversation is with a shark. That’s right – and I’ll call her that to her face. That’s because she is Lori Greiner, inventor,

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Mark Coopersmith, Entrepreneur & UC Berkeley Lecturer

December 18, 2012 admin All Conversations, Business & Economics, Technology, Uncategorized

After years of hearing about jobs leaving our country for overseas — offshoring — there’s a new trend in American business. It’s called “reshoring.” From

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Dr. William Dunkelberg, Chief Economist, National Federation of Independent Businesses

December 17, 2012 admin All Conversations, Business & Economics, Uncategorized

With just 15 days until the Fiscal Cliff — the cocktail of tax increases and budget cuts — is scheduled to hit, businesses are asking

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Emma Macdonald, Research Director, Cranfield Customer Management Forum, UK

October 27, 2012 admin All Conversations, Business & Economics, Uncategorized

Who is more fickle than consumers? Fads come and go. Tastes change. As a result, marketers spend billions to keep their fingers on the pulse

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Steve Bonadio, InnoCentive, on Crowdsourcing

October 27, 2012 admin All Conversations, Business & Economics, Technology, Uncategorized

We all know the drill: A problem comes up at the office — A new sales area, new potential product, new customer segment. The boss

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Elizabeth Cline, Author, “Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion”

September 8, 2012 admin All Conversations, Business & Economics, Culture, Uncategorized

If you’re like most of us, you have more shirts, pants, dresses, suits, shoes, ties, belts than you could possibly wear — and than you

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Dov Seidman, founder LRN

August 25, 2012 admin All Conversations, Business & Economics, Uncategorized

How would you like to have no boss? Instead of having a direct manager choose your priorities, how would you like to have your company’s

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Diane Brady, Sr. Editor Bloomberg Businessweek

August 25, 2012 admin All Conversations, Business & Economics, Uncategorized

It’s certainly not often that a company’s naming a new boardmember becomes news that goes viral on the Internet. But Faceboook is not just any

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Diane Brady, Senior Editor, Bloomberg Businessweek

June 2, 2012 admin All Conversations, Business & Economics, Uncategorized

The Queen’s 60 year jubilee in England is not the only major anniversary of an institution this week. This also marks the 50 year anniversary

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Steve Coll, President, New America Foundation

May 14, 2012 admin All Conversations, Business & Economics, International Affairs, Uncategorized

If you were to list some of the world’s most secretive institutions, you surely wouldn’t be surprised to see the CIA or the Bin Laden

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Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Yale, founder & president of the Chief Executive Leadership Institute

May 12, 2012 admin All Conversations, Business & Economics, Uncategorized

The background of a CEO at one of America’s best known companies, it turns out, is not exactly what we thought it was. Another CEO

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