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Features and Analysis
Teenage bosses: entrepreneurs who build companies while still in the classroom ... [more]
Summer holidays are high season for euro counterfeiters: summer is traditionally the most active period for counterfeiters -- and evidence suggests this one is no exception ... [more]
Shuttered bug: Mexico rolls out its last classic Beetle ... [more]
Keeper of the fire: he made Kathie Lee Gifford cry and made the Gap treat its workers better. Now Charlie Kernaghan plans to put en end to sweatshop labour altogether ... [more]
Food fight: the European Commission says it wants to restrict the right to use iconic food names such as stilton and champagne ... [more]
Thank you... Next! Endless auditions, rare callbacks, working for pennies. Welcome to a New York actor's life ... [more]
Veggie fuels feed bottom line: although 'green' concerns are the main selling points for fuels like straight vegetable oil or biodiesel, consumers and businesses are finding another good reason to drive green -- money ... [more]
Nouveau vegan: restaurants are finding that catering to vegans -- and doing it well -- is a good business move (registration required) ... [more]
The Wal-Mart way becomes Topic A in US business schools: Wal-Mart has increasingly become an example of what to do -- and, as some professors see it, what not to do (registration required) ... [more]
Wal-Mart's women troubles the biggest private employer in the US could soon face the mother of all discrimination suits (registration required) ... [more]
Phones come alive in Baghdad: without warning, a new war -- between companies vying for Iraq's emerging cell-phone market -- has begun ... [more]
Greek games ban breaks EC rules... So what is the Commission going to do about it? ... [more]
Boardrooms shake-up welcomed: UK business groups welcome key changes to new rules aimed at preventing Enron-style corporate scandals ... [more]
Boost for Indian software developers: the world's second largest software company is to open a research centre in India, its biggest such facility outside the US ... [more]
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Australia to ban spam: the legislation is on its way -- but what kind of impact will it have? ... [more]
Music pirates -- on the run or on vacation? The recording industry's legal campaign may be starting to blast musical pirates off the Internet ... [more]
From scoop to nuts: new US stores are putting theater into the ice cream business ... [more]
Portuguese cork wakes up to synthetic stoppers: new plastic 'corks' may affect not just the taste of wine, but Portugal's environment and economy ... [more]
Dealing with addiction, and what comes after: many companies are willing to offer assistance these days for addiction, but workers are still reluctant to accept help (registration required) ... [more]
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Dutch companies rethink corporate responsibility: in Europe, Dutch companies are considered front runners in addressing the need for corporate social responsibility ... [more]
A ticket full of fine print: could this be the most eye-opening fine print in corporate America? ... [more]
China looks upmarket: it still turns out cheap plastic toys. Maybe your next DVD player and air conditioner, too ... [more]
Fear of floating: by tying their currencies to the US dollar, Asian governments are creating global economic strains ... [more]
Iraq rebuilding 'could cost $90bn': Iraq may need up to $90bn in investment to kick-start its economy and achieve a long-term recovery ... [more]
EU wants meaty action for spam: a global effort is needed to fight of spam, the EC says ... [more]
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Opinions and Reviews
Waiting to turn the page... By now, everyone was supposed to have a personal Web site. Home pages were going to replace business cards, and they'd be animated, talking ones to boot. Remember? ... [more]
Look out! The PA wants your job... Secretaries and PAs are quickly becoming the new force in organisations across the UK ... [more]
Forever Spam: email addresses never die -- they are just sold over and over again ... [more]
Email failure -- more stressful than divorce? Many UK IT managers think so ... [more]
Publishing for the small fry: at RedPaper, an experimental online information exchange that blends self-publishing with micropayments, an author can publish anything from poetry, to recipes, to police files ... [more]
Are small firms environmentally unfriendly? Many small firms are doing little to protect the environment while running their businesses, according to a new British survey ... [more]
Son of Napster? One possible future for a music business that must inevitably change ... [more]
Operation oily immunity: is the Development Fund for Iraq leveraging Iraqi oil to profit US corporations while creating unsustainable debt for the Iraqi people? ... [more]
The future of business is molecular: are biology and evolution the new business models? It's Alive charts out a new approach to corporate growth and innovation ... [more]
Chinese currency system must face step-by-step liberalization: a lot of talk is going around about the need for China to adjust the exchange rate of its currency, the yuan ... [more]
Pulling a fast one: are corporate tax cheats wreaking havoc on the neediest among us? ... [more]
The butler did it: the story of Ask Jeeves shows that investors are buying into the concept of paid Internet searches ... [more]
The silence of the lambswool cardigans... At one time, Nike was the goddess of victory and shoes told stories ... [more]
Flings, flirts and downfalls: most Britons have had a workplace romance, a survay finds -- but half of all work affairs end in one or both parties having to leave ... [more]
The world's worst investment? With its shares losing two-thirds of their value since their flotation in 1988, Eurotunnel is certainly a strong contender ... [more]
Laptops muscle desktops aside: sales have surpassed those of boxy desktop PCs, thanks to an array of potent new options ... [more]
CFOs -- take a lesson from Socrates? Yes, Socrates is the man: a scourge to bad executives and a dream to shareholders (Adobe Acrobat required) ... [more]
Canada displaces Netherlands as 'best place to do business': with the global business environment forecast to improve over the next five years, Canada may become the best country in which to conduct business ... [more]
Are US consumers helping finance Liberia's regime? Rainforest wood is slipping into Western markets despite a US ban on 'conflict timber' ... [more]
We forgive you: could this be a solution to poverty and unemployment in emerging market countries? (Registration required) ... [more]
Managers don't like to telework, or to pay for staff to do it -- although they do see the benefits ... [more]
Prospecting for profits: privatization is hitting US national parks. Corporate profits could be enormous -- but fragile environments may end up the losers ... [more]
Self-employment no guarantee of work-life balance: some UK small business owner-managers have not had a holiday for five years ... [more]
Is lucre really that filthy? It’s time for activists to shed their distaste for the dollar ... [more]
Why online ads do not work: why do most people ignore ads on the web, even if they are amusing or interesting ... [more]
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Strategy and Tactics
Buying frenzy in the candy jungle of doom -- or how the perception of variety influences consumption (registration required) ... [more]
Buzz without bucks: smart companies know that you don't need big budgets to deliver a big message. When it comes to building a brand, word of mouth is priceless ... [more]
Advice to avoid copyright litigation: tips to help defend against file-sharing lawsuits (US focus) ... [more]
Mail order basics: learning mail order advertising techniques is one of the most important sales and marketing skills you can obtain ... [more]
Start with a bang: the key to an effective presentation? You have to capture your audience in the first few seconds ... [more]
Word-of-mouth marketing speaks well for small business: "The dirty little secret that the advertising community doesn't want to let out is word of mouth is more [effective] than a 30-second commercial or radio ad" (registration required) ... [more]
The power of warm fuzzies... or how to boost consumer brand sales through marketing partnerships with non-profits ... [more]
In praise of interns... Too much work, too little time -- what's the solution? A student eager for experience could be the perfect answer (registration required) ... [more]
The psychology of corporations and corporate officers -- who do you ask when you want to find out all about it? ... [more]
A small investment in cool can go a long way on hot days: battling 'summer holiday' conditions and mentalities with cooling tactics ... [more]
Marketing to peacocks... So what's a metrosexual, anyway? ... [more]
The power of posture... How you stand can be as important as what you say. Here's how to improve your "presence" and effectiveness ... [more]
The death of privacy -- again. Businesses need to pay closer attention to what employees, customers, and visitors are doing with camera phones and other intrusive technologies ... [more]
Beating writer's block: the blank screen or piece of paper has terrified even famous authors for generations, and we poor business mortals suffer just as badly ... [more]
How to rent email lists -- without fear (or shame): fewer than 10 percent of lists on the rental market today may be safe. The rest are gathered using questionable tactics ... [more]
Maintaining altitude: five steps toward meeting change with entrepreneurial creativity ... [more]
An easy antidote to employee theft: business owners can take a simple step that will make customers their first line of defense (registration required) ... [more]
Getting extraordinary performance when you can't pay for it: how to get exceptional performance from your teams by leveraging a worker's most important asset -- pride ... [more]
So avant-garde it's unrecognisable... How do you position a brand-spanking new product when the so-called market doesn't know what it is, let alone have a sense of its value? ... [more]
Copyright and the Internet: the myths, the misunderstandings and the reality ... [more]
Location isn't always everything: in these days of the Net, your location shouldn't limit you (registration required) ... [more]
Guerilla-publicity tips for businesses. How did a fairly small, unknown company in a non-exciting field get more than 1,000 press mentions? ... [more]
Spam spoofing on the rise: beware 'brand spoofing,' in which spammers disguise junk e-mail to make it appear as if it's from a trusted company ... [more]
How to successfully extend your brand: often, marketers misunderstand the way their customers think ... [more]
Organizational lessons for nonprofits: as well as a passionate focus on mission, nonprofits need a strong and financially stable organization (registration required) ... [more]
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