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Hermes Images / AGF / Universal Images Group ... The Long-Forgotten Flight That Sent Boeing Off Course
A company once driven by engineers became driven by finance.
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Matt Chase The Stock-Buyback Swindle
American corporations are spending trillions of dollars to repurchase their own stock. The practice is enriching CEOs—at the expense of everyone else.
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Peter Bohler At Work, Expertise Is Falling Out of Favor
These days, it seems, just about all organizations are asking their employees to do more with less. Is that actually a good idea?
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Todd St. John Why Ford Hired a Furniture Maker as CEO
In the car of the future, you may care more about how the driver’s seat swivels than how the engine purrs.
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Jamie Cullen When Working From Home Doesn’t Work
IBM pioneered telecommuting. Now it wants people back in the office.
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Justin Renteria Power Causes Brain Damage
How leaders lose mental capacities—most notably for reading other people—that were essential to their rise
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Justin Fantl How Online Shopping Makes Suckers of Us All
Will you pay more for those shoes before 7 p.m.? Would the price tag be different if you lived in the suburbs? Standard prices and simple discounts are giving way to far more exotic strategies, designed to extract every last dollar from the consumer.
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Mike McQuade The Curse of the Loyal Sports Fan
The Chicago Cubs’ customers show up win or lose—which may explain why, until now, the team has mostly done the latter.
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Justin Renteria Is Grit Overrated?
The downsides of dogged, single-minded persistence
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Justin Renteria What Was Volkswagen Thinking?
On the origins of corporate evil—and idiocy
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Justin Renteria Can Google Succeed as Alphabet?
Most conglomerates fail. Will this venture be any different?
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Matt Chase Are Bosses Necessary?
A radical experiment at Zappos may herald the emergence of a new, more democratic kind of organization.
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Peter Yang Why It Pays to Be a Jerk
New research confirms what they say about nice guys.
