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In defense of the big banks
feature The argument for breaking up big banks may be “simple and sound-bite-ready,” but every part of it is “based on a fallacy.”
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Issue of the week: When body-shaming backfires
feature Lululemon’s founder, Chip Wilson, offended customers when he “implied that plus-size people should shop elsewhere.”
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Issue of the week: How Yellen spooked the markets
feature At her first press conference, the new Federal Reserve chair made the mistake of indicating when the Fed would raise interest rates.
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Issue of the week: Avoiding corporate tax
feature Americans should be outraged about corporate tax dodging.
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Stop calling women ‘bossy’
feature Let’s ban “She’s bossy.” Instead, let’s try, “She has executive leadership skills.”
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Measure results, not hours
feature Too many businesses judge an employee’s performance by hours worked rather than by value created.
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The true meaning of ‘greed’
feature In its original meaning, greed is a vice that’s “bad for society” because it uses “coercion or deception to advance one’s well-being at the expense of another,” said Charles Kadlec in Forbes.com.
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The real victims of Herbalife
feature “It’s been a wild ride lately for Herbalife.”
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One CEO takes a noble stand
feature Gerard J. Arpey may be “the only airline CEO who regarded bankruptcy not simply as a financial tool but, more important, as a moral failing,” said D. Michael Lindsay at The New York Times.
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Viewpoint: Allan Sloan
feature From Fortune: “We have an unfortunate tendency in this country to treat people as either heroes or villains, with no gradations in between....
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The rise of the sharing economy
feature The efficiency of a “post-ownership society” may not translate into economic growth, said Derek Thompson at The Atlantic.
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Chipotle is a lot like Apple
feature What Steve Jobs did with the cellphone, Chipotle founder Steve Ells has done with fast food, said Matthew Yglesias at Slate.com.
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Issue of the week: Facebook’s new approach
feature Will Facebook's 1 billion active users “like” the first major redesign since 2006?
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The SEC’s losing battle against banks
feature By urging the SEC to punish financial crimes more aggressively, Judge Jed Rakoff “may have inadvertently made the SEC’s job” that much tougher, said Tim Fernholz at The New Republic.
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