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What makes Warren Buffett Warren Buffett? That question will dominate this weekend’s annual meeting of Berkshire Hathaway, on the 50th anniversary of Mr. Buffett’s takeover of the company.
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Starwood Hotels has hired an investment bank to help explore its strategic options, which include a possible sale of the hotel operator.
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Investors in U.S. stocks could face an extended period of lackluster returns. Here are three strategies to cope, from columnist Jonathan Clements.
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A second proxy adviser, Glass Lewis, delivered a vote of confidence in Nelson Peltz in his campaign to get on the board of DuPont.
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After just 16 months and a fleeting stint as a popular app, the anonymous social-networking service Secret is shutting down.
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A divided SEC proposed new rules requiring public companies to make it easier for investors to judge whether top executives’ compensation is in step with the company’s financial performance.
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Recycling is a growing financial weight on Waste Management, the country’s largest trash hauler, which posted a loss on Wednesday.
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For starters, don't link pay packages just to stock. Tie them to the company's debt as well. That will help ensure that CEOs reap big rewards for long-term success, not just a short-lived bump in the stock price.
Teaching employees new skills is one thing. Getting them to apply what they have learned is quite another.
Amid debate over diversity in tech companies, a new report finds rapidly rising numbers of black and Hispanic professionals in tech.
“Jobs that are considered creative today may not be so tomorrow,” says Creativity versus Robots, a report co-authored by Oxford University academics.
Vox Media CEO Jim Bankoff, in a Boss Talk interview, predicts that strong brands will outlast “clickbait” as ad spending shifts online.
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“The challenge is that the market perception is we’re very much a consumer company and that we’re part of the security problem.” To shake that, Patrick Heim will have to show how cloud service providers like Dropbox, and many large consumer Internet companies, can manage cloud security as well as or better than the enterprises themselves.
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Back to basics for GE, and perhaps the rest of us; Cisco's CEO on staying ahead of technology shifts; a tech CEO takes on the gender wage gap.
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BNP Paribas SA was sentenced Friday to five years of probation and ordered to pay a $140 million fine. Along with the sentencing, the U.S. announced it would try to compensate victims of the bank's violations.
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Computer programing is a skill uniquely suited to training children how to solve problems and to express themselves, and many educators think it should be part of the basic curriculum, even for grade schoolers.
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Alex Rodriguez hit his 660th home run Friday night against Red Sox in Boston, tying Willie Mays for 4th on the all-time home run list and sparking the question of whether he will receive a $6 million bonus from the Yankees for the milestone.
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Amphenol and Madison Square Garden announce CFO changes.
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Morgan Stanley said Friday in a regulatory filing that its board approved a plan to treat Ruth Porat as retirement-eligible, speeding up the payout of past year-end awards that would have paid out over time.
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After launching iPads, social software and new training initiatives at the burger chain over the last eight years, CIO Chris Laping prepares to nourish his entrepreneurial spirit.
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EBay shareholders approved a measure that will give them more power to nominate directors of the e-commerce giant.
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Harvard Business School is looking to women’s colleges for the next generation of business leaders.
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Economic downturns offer unique opportunities to launch innovative new products and services. Here's how entrepreneurs - both inside and outside of corporations - can make smart decisions about innovating in a slump.
The obituaries of Jean Nidetch, the founder of the diet chain Weight Watchers, who died on Wednesday at age 91, talk about her personal and corporate triumphs, as is appropriate. This is a neighborhood account. Jean lived a few doors away from me in Queens, N.Y., when I was a kid in the 1960s; Weight Watchers started in a clubhouse underneath my bedroom. My mom’s friends were the earliest participants. I can’t count how many times I heard them yelling about losing or gaining a few pounds.
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