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CNN Beams Up Correspondent: CNN used its new 3-D hologram technology to "beam" correspondent Jessica Yellin from Chicago to Wolf Blitzer's studio in New York during election coverage. [more]
73-Year-Old Man Makes Basketball History: Ken Mink, a 73-year-old student at Roane State Community College, set a new record this week -- he became the oldest person to score in a US college basketball game. [more]
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Internal Benchmarking in Four Steps: Internal benchmarking is a handy way to identify best practices while also encouraging healthy competition amongst departments, which can spur innovation. [more]
Marketing Plan Helps Promote BI Initiative: How can you promote your business intelligence (BI) initiative? [more]
Tips for Thriving in a Recession: Is it possible to improve your organization's financial performance even when the markets are tanking? [more]
Human Capital Goes Global: Imbalances in the world's labor supply will result in a surge of workers across borders in the coming decades. [more]
Ethics and Compliance: Are We There Yet?: Five-plus years after Sarbanes-Oxley, companies face ever-increasing regulatory compliance demands and new ethical challenges raised by a more complex and global business environment, according to risk consultancy LRN. [more]
4 Guiding Principles for Successful Leaders -- and Companies: Many great leaders don't build successful organizations, according to this article by Bain consultants Mark Gottfredson and Steve Schaubert and nonprofit leader Elisabeth Babcock. [more]
What Drives Women Leaders?: The McKinsey Leadership Project interviewed 85 successful women leaders in diverse fields around the world to learn what drives and sustains them and to help organizations get the best out of this talented group. [more]
Developing Leaders in China: This case study describes how Agilent Technologies employed rigorous metrics to assess the leadership capabilities of managers in its operations in China. [more]
Experienced New Hires May Not Be Successful: Companies often seek to hire skilled, experienced workers with a track record in the same industry, but this report proves that this strategy may not always work best. [more]
Business Leaders Are Transforming Social Enterprises: A new generation of business leaders and philanthropists is experimenting with hybrid forms of social enterprises while demanding more transparency and accountability from the organizations they are funding. [more]
How a CEO Slows Down To Improve Business: The CEO of insurance brokerage Dawson Cos., who works out of the firm's Naples, Fla., office, describes in this article how he uses "Zen management" to build strong relationships with staff members in Ohio who suffer through winter's chill. [more]
Drill, Baby, Drill: All politics aside, promising GRC initiatives too often only scrapes the surface. [more]
A Path Through the Information Maze: Businesses churn out vast volumes of information; the average management report contains 12,000 to 15,000 data points. [more]
How To Expand and Still Control Costs: Is frugal growth an oxymoron? [more]
Glossary for the Financial Crisis: Turn on the news and you'll hear pundits tossing around words like "mortgage-based securities" and "credit default swap. [more]
Curbs on Heavy-Handed White-Collar Crime Investigations?: The Department of Justice has presented new white-collar crime guidance. [more]
Want More Profits? Hire More Women: Well, it might not be quite that simple -- there are only preliminary
indications of a causal link -- but evidence is mounting that companies with
higher numbers of women at senior levels outperform their peers. [more]
Salaries Will Shrug Off Economic Woes: Though the economy remains anemic, salaries won't take a hit next year, according to a new report from Hewitt Associates. [more]
An Interview with Citigroup's CFO Gary Crittenden: From Sears Roebuck to Monsanto to American Express, CFO Gary Crittenden pretty much wrote the book on finance transformation. [more]
Finance in the Flat World: Earlier this year, global consulting and services firm Accenture published the latest in a series of studies of high performance in the finance function, focusing on the challenges and opportunities presented by globalization. [more]