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01 / PepsiCo > > For its ambitious nutrition R&D. Does better nutrition require curbing our appetites for Cheetos and Fritos and Mountain Dew (oh, my!)? Not if PepsiCo can help it.
Read More »Unsolicited Advice for Jack Dorsey on His Rumored Re-Tweet, Courtesy of Himself
Mining clues from Jack Dorsey's inner life, just as he seems poised to return in a larger capacity to the company he founded, Twitter. Several
Read More »The Evolution of Corporate Logos
Probably few remember the original Apple logo, which featured Sir Isaac Newton sitting under a tree with the inscription ‘“Newton … A Mind Forever Voyaging Through Strange Seas of Thought … Alone.” Thankfully, within a year, Jobs was introduced to Rob Janoff, a young designer based in Palo Alto, California who was assigned to help market the clunky Apple II, a far cry from today’s sleek MacBook. “For inspiration, the first thing I did was go to the supermarket, buy a bag of apples and slice them up,” recalled Janoff in an interview with Sync Magazine. “I just stared at the wedges for hours.” Eventually, Janoff created the polychromatic Apple logo which survived until 1998
Read More »The Top 16 Schools for Green MBAs, Revealed
Looking to capitalize on the growing wave of excitement over all things green? Consider attending a green MBA program. Princeton Review and Entrepreneur Magazine just released their first rankings of the top 16 green MBA programs in the U.S.--a list that includes perennial favorites like Columbia University, Duke University, Stanford University, and New York University
Read More »Tell the White House How to Power Up Startups
Once again , the White House wants to hear ideas about innovation in general and eliminating impediments to startups in particular from you Fast Company readers. [video_twistage 1] On March 23, from noon-12:40 p.m. EST, Fast Company senior editor Nancy Cook will travel to the White House with your questions in tow to moderate the panel, "Startup America--Reducing Barriers." It's part of the White House's Startup America initiative, which began with an executive order in January by President Obama, instructing federal agencies to identify and take steps to reduce old or burdensome business regulations.
Read More »Japan battles nuclear crisis, power effort crucial
By Kiyoshi Takenaka and Yoko Nishikawa TOKYO, March 19 (Reuters) - Exhausted engineers scrambled to fix a power cable to two reactors at Japan's tsunami-crippled nuclear station on Saturday in a race to prevent deadly radiation from an accident now rated at least as bad as America's Three Mile Island in 1979. [More]
Read More »Radiation Fears Spark Fake Potassium Iodide Pills, Says FDA
As nuclear crises worsens in Japan, U.S.
Read More »Radon Radiaton Worries: Am I Safe?
Radon exposure is the second leading cause of lung cancer death in America, and it's preventable
Read More »Leadership Hall of Fame: Tom Peters, Author of "In Search of Excellence"
We continue our examination of the business book In Search of Excellence with an interview of author Tom Peters. Why was it so successful, what is the book's legacy and what does a restaurant owner in Chicago have in common with Jack Welch? What was the impetus for you to write In Search of Excellence
Read More »Google Intervenes in Japan
Each day, Inc.'s reporters scour the Web for the most important and interesting news to entrepreneurs. Here's what we found today. The tech response to Japan's earthquake.
Read More »NFC’s Great, but Rumors of Credit Cards’ Death Are Greatly Exaggerated
The fantasy of buying a Slurpee with nothing more than a dramatic wave of your iPhone 5 seems to be coming true. But like hydrogen cars and hoverboards, electronic wallet technology has a long, long way to go
Read More »Should Financial Literacy Be Mandatory?
British MPs want compulsory finance education in schools, but there's mixed evidence on effectiveness. At the epicenter of the housing crisis was a black hole of financial literacy--masses of consumers making calculations with unrealistic mathematical expectations . To avert another capitalist catastrophe, 300 British MPs are calling for mandatory personal finance education
Read More »Extreme Wind Farming Gets $102 Million Blast
Wind farms suffer from a problem: They're built to harness wind, but are still vulnerable to wear-and-tear caused by severely windy conditions. Enter the Record Hill Wind project, a Yale University Endowment-funded 50.6 megawatt wind power plant set to start construction this year in rural Maine
Read More »5 Start-ups Bubbling Up At TED
While the main stage talks are the intellectual core of the TED experience, they're far from the only thing going on. As one might expect from a community thick with ideas and inspiration, there is an immense undercurrent of entrepreneurial excitement and activity that runs through the event.
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