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Each year , I help fellow entrepreneurs and investors judge the MBA business plan competition at Harvard Business School. This year, I noted which pitch approaches seemed to work best and which tactics fell flat. Here are five things that worked in this year's presentations—and that you should consider including in your next business plan pitch: 1

Air quality is improving in the U.S., but some cities still have big pollution problems

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Why do Managers shy away from giving performance feedback, both positive and negative? Constructive feedback is crucial to career development, employee satisfaction, employee retention and employee motivation. Employee feedback should be given as frequently as possible; both formally through the annual performance review forms and ensuing discussions, but also informally through ongoing conversations and coaching

Despite mountains of evidence against them, certain ideas just seem to stick

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Each day, Inc.'s reporters scour the Web for the most important and interesting news to entrepreneurs. Here's what we found today. Office-space shortage in the South Bay.

What a happy place the U.S.

LinkedIn, with its database of over a hundred million names, is also an interesting trove of sociological data. Should you give your baby one of the most popular names for CEOs?

Apple's just spoken up publicly on the matter of iPhones storing location data. "Apple is not tracking the location of your iPhone.

DIY survey platforms make constructing questionnaires easy, but the results could be biased, contradictory, or deeply misleading. Online surveys often have to compete for attention against the backdrop of Netflix , Gmail alerts, and 25 open browser tabs. The minimal cognitive effort given to answering questions may exacerbate all the problems that lead to biased or outright distorted results.

With the release of Portal 2, game developer Valve has followed-up the critically acclaimed original with more head-bursting puzzles, fanatical computers, and immersive story. We spoke with lead writer Erik Wolpaw, designer/engineer Jeep Barnett, and VP of marketing Doug Lombardi to find out how they created the setting of the game, what drives their innovative storytelling techniques, and more.

As the Sony PlayStation hack aftermath continues, it seems the Network won't be back in full for up to a week. Sony, in its advisory note (shown as a wordcloud above), cautions the 77 million victims to watch their bank accounts and check for phishing.

Ovarian cancer affects 20,000 women each year, yet the signs are hard to read