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With the company throwing money at solutions that turn refuse into energy, it may soon be about more than just garbage. Not content to sit on its laurels as the largest trash collection company in the country, Waste Management is innovating in one of the unsexiest--but most important--sectors of the economy: garbage

A new report suggests that sustainable business practices are not only good for the environment, but improve employee relations, as well. Going green is good for the environment, but how does it affect your business?

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We continue our examination of the business book Reengineering the Corporation with an interview of author James Champy. Why does he think the book was successful, and how has the business world been seduced by the latest strategy du jour? What was the impetus for you to write Reengineering the Corporation

One morning last January, a franchisee of Nurse Next Door in Edmonton, Alberta, sent an e-mail to company headquarters in Vancouver, British Columbia. John DeHart, Nurse Next Door's co-founder and co-CEO, clicked on a link in the message, which led to the website of Eldercare, a competing company based in Toronto

Sooner or later, every growing company reaches a point at which the entrepreneur behind it should start wondering whether he or she is the right person to be CEO. The answer has a lot to do with the company’s stage of development.

Sometimes it's OK to litter. After unwrapping soap from Pangea Organics, a Boulder, Colorado-based maker of skin care products, customers are supposed to plant the packages in the ground.

Illustration by Dan Winters When supersecretive agriculture giant Cargill decided to attack the no-calorie-sweetener market dominated by Sweet'N Low, Splenda, and Equal, it sent its best marketers and scientists to basement war rooms and covert labs. Only now can the inside story of Truvia -- and its unlikely success -- be told. SAYS ZANNA MCFERSON , plucking a stevia leaf from a plant on her desk and biting into it, "I knew there had to be something we could do with it." Through the expansive windows of her corner office at Cargill's headquarters, an Aspen-like mega-lodge on the outskirts of suburban Minneapolis, she stares out at the snowy pines and at the horizon beyond

The U.S doesn't have much over China at this point. Sure, we have breathable air, but they have more clean energy funding , the world's fastest-growing economy, and at least for now, a head start on the vehicle electrification race.

Greg Tseng, CEO of the social networking website Tagged, had just landed in Manila, on Saturday, June 6, 2009, to kick off a long-awaited vacation. As soon as he dragged his jet-lagged body up to his hotel room, though, an onslaught of phone calls, e-mails, and text messages from his co-founder, Johann Schleier-Smith, and other Tagged employees began: Something was seriously wrong with the site. In the 24 hours since Tseng had left his office in San Francisco, thousands of complaints had been filed by users—who claimed that Tagged's new registration process had somehow tricked them into spamming all of the contacts in their e-mail address books

In a world in which knowledge is power, what you don't know can hurt you.

Babson College Taught by: Faculty Marketing, finance, operations, and HR can be studied separately. Entrepreneurship encompasses them all. So Babson College, a business-oriented school in Wellesley, Massachusetts, introduces its entire freshman class to the subject of business by having students start one.

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