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Forbes magazine puts out an annual ranking of the best small companies in America. Most people are familiar with the Inc. 500, a ranking of the 500 fastest growing private companies in America. The Forbes rankings are more comprehensive and take many more factors into account. Forbes also includes publicily traded companies.
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I recently re-watched this excellent CNBC Original program on the origins of the current economic decline. House Of Cards explains how over-leveraged mortgages were propagated, how these mortgages were packaged by Wall Street and resold internationally, and finally how they led to the decline in real estate prices that caused an unprecedented world-wide credit crisis.
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A great article from Forbes on the emerging freelance economy:
http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2009/1116/careers-lisa-steinberg-labor-statistics-freelance-economy.html
This is nothing new to freelancers and companies that use their services and have been taking advantage of the Internet to come together to create a new type of labor market for years. Thomas Friedman described just such a phenomenon emerging in 2005 in his book The World Is [...]

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The trend in large businesses over the past few years has been a greater push for better business analytics.  One needs to look no further than at the growth of SAS and at IBM’s latest advertising push. Businesses want solid data upon which to make decisions!
Business analytics is the practice of collecting and [...]

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A recent series of experiments conducted by Chen-Bo Zhong of the University of Toronto suggests that people with an option to treat someone fairly or to lie to a person and gain at that person’s expense choose to be more honest when instructed to trust their gut feelings instead of thinking the situation through rationally.
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