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The results are in--and they arent pretty.

The results are in--and they arent pretty. Here are eight cautionary tales from some of the worlds biggest brands. Recently I gave a group of my MBA students at New York University’s Stern Graduate School of Business in New York this assignment: Identify the most questionable new products of the year and analyze what made them so ill conceived.

During recess, students at the Second High School attached to Beijing Normal University--like their counterparts across the nation--gather in the courtyard to do calisthenics. This exercise is meant to aid their vision. Photo by Shiho Fukada See more of the best photos of 2011

A Stanford Business School professor concedes that biz schools often kill the passion and creativity of students. So should you avoid higher ed? Business schools get a lot of flak, mostly for their exorbitant cost, but also due to a feeling among some in the world of entrepreneurship that the experience is simply a waste of time.

Great businesses succeed by motivating people with the straight facts. There are four ways to get the truth out there.

Think of it as the required curriculum in the School of Hard Knocks. Entrepreneurs often wear every hat

Academics and researchers sympathetic to the #Occupy movement have created a "People's Skype" and participated in a multinational hackathon that took advantage of a massive social media archive. Months after the first protesters arrived in Zuccotti Park, Occupy Wall Street continues to fuel tech innovation

How do innovators and early adopters succeed in spreading new ideas, new tech, and even new seed corn? We continue our Leadership Hall of Fame series , a year-long look at the top business books and authors, with an excerpt from The Tipping Point (2000) by Malcolm Gladwell.

"It's about being shameless and relentless and hustling for the first users and for the first partners," says Best.

The award-winning, death-cheating director of "Grizzly Man" and "Fitzcarraldo" gets up close and personal for his latest documentary.

The e-commerce giant secretly bought the Siri-like speech recognition start-up in September. Let the yapping begin: Amazon.com quietly has acquired a Siri-like speech recognition start-up called Yap

The e-commerce giant secretly bought the Siri-like speech recognition start-up in September. Let the yapping begin: Amazon.com quietly has acquired a Siri-like speech recognition start-up called Yap. The e-commerce giant apparently bought the Charlotte-based company in September, but neither company made a public announcement–Amazon's foray into voice control a la Apple's Siri was uncovered by The Atlantic 's discovery of an SEC filing .

85 percent of students drank sugary beverage within week of survey regardless of whether school banned them

If you've had it up to here with Ticketmaster's insane fees, or you're looking to buy or sell tickets to your school's bake sale, your band's concert, or a local cooking class, Eventbrite is for you. Ticketmaster, dubbed the " most hated brand in America " by Fast Company, has historically left much to be desired from a user standpoint, with its eye-popping service fees and market stranglehold on large events that makes them damned near impossible to avoid. Meanwhile, a massive part of the ticketing market has been virtually untapped--Ticketmaster will get you into the U2 and Sting megatours, but if you're looking to sell or buy tickets for a knitting class, an obscure music festival, or a neighborhood nonprofit fundraiser, forget it.

Physicists from the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a theory that describes, in a unified manner, the coexistence of liquid and pinned solid phases of electrons in two dimensions under the influence of a magnetic field.