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Does your company plan things correctly? Or are meetings unproductive due to poor planning? We continue our Leadership Hall of Fame series, a year-long look at the top business books and authors, with an excerpt from Getting Things Done (2001) by David Allen.

The Yale Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity released a new report that shows juice boxes marketed to youths are filled with sugar. Michelle Miller reports. Also, registered dietician Keri Glassman discusses the report

UNITED NATIONS -- Out of a crowded field of dire predictions regarding humanity having reached 7 billion in population came a U.N. report this week that called the moment an opportunity to stress sustainability and improve lives in less-developed nations

Nutrition labels have a lot of information--too much perhaps. What if the fronts of food packages had a simple, easy-to-understand system that let you know if they were healthy or not? The government's Energy Star label is wildly simple to use; consumers may not know exactly why an Energy Star-labeled product received its designation, but they do realize that it's more energy-efficient than its counterparts

Those who were fortunate enough to obtain and smoke one of Robb Report’s 2011 Best of the Best selections, EPC Cigar Co.’s Edici

The FDA's regulatory process is the major reason and a report calls it a threat to investment to U.S. medical innovation.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Environmental Protection Agency is expected to ease a new air pollution rule that would require power plants in 27 states to slash emissions, The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter. The EPA plans to propose as early as this week allowing certain states and companies to emit more pollutants than it previously permitted, the report said.

New findings published Tuesday appear to undermine a controversial study - oft-cited by those who downplay the human impacts of climate change - that claimed variations in cloud cover are driving temperature changes across the globe. The analysis confirms - as most atmospheric scientists have long held - that the reverse is true: Clouds change in response to temperature changes.

No geoengineering methods are ready for use to combat climate change, the Government Accountability Office said in a report released late last month, citing concerns about cost, effectiveness and adverse consequences. "Climate engineering technologies do not now offer a viable response to global climate change," GAO said in the report commissioned by former House Science, Space and Technology Committee Chairman Bart Gordon (D-Tenn.)

It was one of those perfect New York City evenings, where the crowd was as fabulous as the food, and the champagne flowed endlessly. In early June, Krug Champagne hosted an intimate dinner for a select group of Robb Report readers at The Fat Radish - Philip Winser and Ben ...

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The likely culprits? Lending is tight--and hiring levels are just strong enough.

Today, Blackbox launched the Startup Genome Compass, a benchmarking tool designed to help entrepreneurs keep track of their startups' progress and know what to do next, based on data from more than 3,200 startups and research from Berkeley and Stanford. Many a bright-eyed entrepreneur heads west hoping to strike it big in the Silicon Valley startup game, yet 94% of them fail

A few months ago, the team at Blackbox seed accelerator set out to decode the "genetics" behind successful startups (See this short piece at Fast Company and also " Love in Startup Land ."). Their initial report, the Startup Genome Project , surveyed over 600 tech startup companies in Silicon Valley and around the world and gave them insights that let them continue their survey.

Homeowners looking to save electricity costs should replace all their incandescent light bulbs with LED-based lights instead of installing a small solar photovoltaic system, a report by J.P. Morgan shows. Light-emitting diodes, or LEDs, will become mainstream over the next 12 months as improving technology and performance and higher subsidies lead to a rapid drop in costs, according to the report