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Edward Saatchi, founder of NationalField and Obama 2008 campaign staffer, tells Fast Company how a culture of accountability helped the campaign achieve its goals.

It's not all Super PACs and mudslinging. In fact, every business executive can learn valuable lessons from inside the Beltway and on the campaign trail. Just because every American seems to be fed up with politics and politicians doesn't mean every business executive can't learn valuable lessons from the Beltway.

Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum took a break from the campaign to stay in Philadelphia with his hospitalized 3-year-old daughter Bella. Jeff Glor reports.

In the mid-2000s, when scientists questioned whether the campaign to rid the world of polio could succeed, skeptics pointed to a problem that some called PAIN . [More]

These nine ads were blasted--and eventually pulled by their creators--for being racist, misogynistic, insensitive, or lewd. But how bad are they, really? Are they offensive, or have we lost our sense of humor

These nine ads were blasted--and eventually pulled by their creators--for being racist, misogynistic, insensitive, or lewd. But how bad are they, really? Are they offensive, or have we lost our sense of humor?

Each candidate has his or her own strategy; some work, others fail. Here's what you can learn from the social media accounts of the 2012 presidential candidates.

Movember cofounder Adam Garone describes how to grow a massive charitable community by bringing the fun. Adam Garone never thought a silly beer-fueled bet to grow a mustache would turn into a multi-million-dollar global charity and the largest non-governmental funder of prostate cancer research. Seven years later, Movember expects more than 600,000 men to ask their friends to contribute donations in exchange for growing an artful caterpillar lip in the annual Movember mustache challenge, which starts Nov.

With the Regeneration project, Hyundai continues its quest for emotional connection, uniting electronic music stars with musicians from five other genres What comes to mind when you think of Hyundai?

Greenpeace's successful campaign to get the toy company to change its packaging has lessons for future plans to target large companies to improve their behavior: Amp up the humor and go viral. Sometimes it takes humor to make a serious point.

[youtube _z1bwFD9bug] A number in the "very high six figures." That's how much it cost TabCo to run its recent eye-grabbing campaign, pitched to reveal a revolutionary innovation in the tablet PC market, according to Jonathan Bloom CEO of McGrath Power, the firm that ran it. That amount is a measure of the bet the tablet is placing on its new product, and also a guide to the complexity of the entire process--but that's just the start of it

Craftsman is sending an un-handy man into the wild. His survival story depends on tools both physical and digital. It’s a poor workman who appears in a new reality-based campaign for Craftsman.

Thanks to a new social media-centered marketing campaign, Whole Foods will become the first national retail chain to celebrate Ramadan. Whole Foods has become the first prominent supermarket chain to run a Ramadan marketing campaign--and they're hoping Muslim customers will return the favor as they break fast. Even though Muslims traditionally forego meals during the day, lavish evening Ramadan meals could mean big bucks for the natural foods giant ..

Start-ups and small businesses are always looking for more customers, and there are a lot of potential customers on the Internet, right? But what online strategy is going to help you to gain the customers you need in a cost-effective manner?