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What’s Wrong with Wal-Mart?

Sales are flat. Expansion is stalled. Image problems abound. Find out what the world’s biggest retailer is doing to tackle its strategic problems.

The Office Politics Playbook

You don't need dirty tricks, but you do need to know the rules. Use these techniques to get what you want in the workplace.

Catching Flack

BNET's new Insight columnists explain the smart way to do public relations.

Fighting Low-Cost Competitors

Are rivals slashing prices to capture market share? Learn the right way to keep them at bay — without destroying your profit margins.

Cultivate New Ideas

Ideas are a precious resource, but they're hard to nurture and easy to kill. Here's how to help them — and your company — prosper.

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Video: Making Telecommuting Work

Telecommuting has become very attractive to companies, managers, and employees alike. Staffing consultant, Sally Thornton, lets us know how both managers and employees can create a successful telecommuting relationship.

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Stay True to Your Strategic Core

Imagine this: your company's markets itself as a purveyor of healthy, simple meals. Your soups are low-sodium, you educate consumers about whole grains on your website, and you partner with ...

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Investing in Africa: Not As Crazy As It Sounds?

If American business thinks of Africa at all, it's usually as a tax write-off generating charity case. That's a mistake writes Thomas Kostigen on MarketWatch.com in response to a new ...

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Do Customer Incentives Increase Profitability?

With heavy competition from global manufacturers in the automotive industry, companies are scrambling to increase sales by offering incentives. According to Jesse Toprak, executive director of industry analysis for sales ...

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What's the Future of Work?

People have been speculating about the future of work since the first farmer showed up with a pointy stick to plant a seed. Still, the recent changes in technology allowing ...

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Useful Commute: The New Rules for Success

In this show, learn how to succeed in your career on your own terms. Sound brazen? Perhaps. But our guest, Penelope Trunk, says a take-charge attitude is the only way to get ahead in today’s job market. Trunk is a career columnist for the Boston Globe. Her syndicated column runs in more than 200 publications worldwide.

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