Evidence points to information from trusted sources getting a better hold on our brains than the noise from everything else. So it's no surprise that companies want to capitalize on those feelings.
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Read More »Stunted Growth from Common Causes Threatens Children’s Later Achievement
iStockphoto/africa924africa924 PHILADELPHIA Severe malnourishment of mothers and their children can cause lifelong growth deficiencies and health problems, warned scientists at the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene annual meeting in Philadelphia on Wednesday. But a lack of nutritious food isn t the only culprit
Read More »The Small Joys of Family Business
Entrepreneurship, for all its challenges, can bestow on families unexpected benefits beyond the obvious financial ones. Although my husband, Gary, is CEO of Stonyfield Farm, his name doesn't appear in the company's phone directory. So after-hours calls often land in the voice-mail box of the only Hirshberg listed: his sister Nancy, who has worked at the company for decades.
Read More »Be a Business of One
Elance CEO Fabio Rosati explains in an interview how young people should prepare for a future of independent work.
Read More »5 Great Reasons to Work on Vacation
Part of the reason we go on vacation is to feel refreshed when we get back, right? That's why the laptop and iPhone come with me
Read More »Did Your Parents Make You an Entrepreneur?
This generation is mad about starting small companies. Could parenting be behind the entrepreneurial drive
Read More »Leadership Hall of Fame: Daniel Pink, Author of "Free Agent Nation"
With the economic downturn and the evolution of the business world in the last 10 years, has our ability to succeed on our own changed? We continue our examination of the business book Free Agent Nation with an interview of author Daniel Pink
Read More »Planning for a Risky Economy
Economists call it a "binary" outlook: The future will be either pretty good or a nightmare, with not much in between. Here's how you plan at such times. My firm and I have served business owners for over 25 years, but the questions I get now are some of the toughest I’ve ever faced.
Read More »Nest Collective’s Neil Grimmer Gets A New Generation To Eat Its Spinach–And Like It
Baby food is big business. At least it is when you do it like Nest Collective , a Bay Area company that has transformed the baby-food industry by introducing the now-commonplace, BPA-free spouted pouch to the U.S. market through its Plum Organics brand
Read More »No Excuses, Not Even in this Economy
Don't be like your teenager.
Read More »AmberWatch TV Dials In On Child Abuse, Cyberbullying
The AmberWatch Foundation amps up its fight against child abuse with a new interactive TV channel that will reach 3 million viewers. Call it kismet, coincidence, or something else. Today AmberWatch TV is launching, right on the heels of the Penn State alledged child sexual abuse case
Read More »Be Known as a Groundbreaking Thinker
Everyone has ideas; it's how you execute them that will get you noticed. Adopting these five principles will help
Read More »Conjoined twins to be separated in Calif. (pictures)
Two-year-old Angelica and Angelina Sabuco facing lengthy surgery at Stanford University Lucile Packard's Children's Hospital
Read More »Make Your Point and Have it Stick
Do you want to get your customers attention?
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