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Is it really true that all press is good press? Here's a look at 10 of the year's craziest PR stunts. Done well, publicity stunts can generate huge positive buzz for you and your company

Welcome to my annual list of who’s been naughty and who's been nice as a speaker or communicator. This week comprises my list of 2011’s losers. (Winners will be announced next week.) Joe Paterno:

A New York brick-and-mortar entrepreneur takes a cue from e-commerce: She curates limited-time-only themes and product lines, hosts community events, and sells sponsorships. An In-Store Revolution A New York brick-and-mortar entrepreneur takes a cue from e-commerce: She curates limited-time-only themes and product lines, hosts community events, and sells sponsorships

Your "on the street" employees can be an important resource for business-building ideas. It’s crazy to think that all great ideas need to come from you or from your top managers. Chances are, your employees who are your “feet on the street” know more about your customers than you might

It may sound like an existential koan--how does one without an office attend an office party?--but in an increasingly freelance, telecommuting world, for many people this is actually a very real consideration. Now, pass the punch and let the mistletoe dangle. On a recent evening in the Gowanus section of Brooklyn, a group of revelers gathered to partake in a tradition as old as desks: The office holiday party.

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.

What does it say about particle physics that the Higgs boson has generated so much hullaballoo lately? Physicists at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland have reportedly glimpsed “ tantalizing hints ” of the Higgs, which might confer mass to quarks, electrons and other building blocks of our world. Not actual “evidence,” mind you, but “hints” of evidence

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

Safe Horizon, the largest nonprofit provider of domestic-violence aid services in the U.S., is thriving under executive director Ariel Zwang, thanks to shrewd tactics she's taken from her experience in the private sector.

We are genetically oriented toward learning from others, an easy thing to forget these days.

Jacob Krupnick's feature-length, Girl Talk-scored music video, "Girl Walk // All Day," debuted yesterday. Today, Krupnick walks us through making a mega dance spectacle while all of New York goes about its business around you. When a video of an ebullient dancing girl in a funky jacket hit the Internet last January, it immediately struck a nerve.

Can't compete with Wall Street salaries? Use these creative strategies for attracting the best Gen-Y talent. While building your business , you are probably overflowing with ideas and enthusiasm.

European leaders are meeting today on yet another Grand Plan to bail out the Euro. Why you, and your business, better hope they succeed. The drama is building over European leaders’ continued inability to solve the debt crisis that threatens to explode the euro zone.

Gifford's ice cream has been a New England institution for decades. Will its super-vivid new packaging help it go national or alienate existing customers? Gifford's ice cream has been a New England institution since the family-owned creamery, based in Skowhegan, Maine, opened its first ice cream stand, in 1980.

Designer Cynthia Rose, known for her clothing and accessories, unveiled her first fine jewelry collection at L’Armoire on Park Street in New Canaan, Conn., showcasing her new fine jewelry. Inspired by the art of collage, her work is most often an idiosyncratic assembly of contemporary and vintage materials. The new ...