You've just completed design research in the field, capturing hours of video, thousands of photos, artifacts, papers, and documents. And now, you're stumped and overwhelmed. What should you do next? How do you do it? And how do you know when you've done a good job? (Fast Company)

Visit http://www.fastcodesign.com/1663002/how-do-you-transform-good-research-into-great-innovations to view the full article online.

 

Building on the foundation of the well-known BRIC countries – Brazil, Russia, India and China – a new set of up-and-coming emerging markets is gaining attention. (Knowledge@Wharton)

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While U.S. unemployment remains stubbornly close to 10%, job prospects for this year's class of MBAs are looking considerably brighter. (Fortune)

Visit http://management.fortune.cnn.com/2011/01/14/mba-hiring-back-with-a-vengeance/#more-997 to view the full article online.

 

Every private sector worker is now responsible for debt of €108,000. University of Limerick economist Stephen Kinsella, asks can they pay it off? (The Guardian)

Visit http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/ireland-business-blog-with-lisa-ocarroll/2011/jan/18/ireland-debt-stephen-kinsella to view the full article online.

 

GMAC solicited ideas for transforming management education and got more than 650, including 20 winning entries. Now comes the hard part: implementing them. (BusinessWeek)

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Foundations and universities have spent a fortune producing freely available online course materials. This week a new book, Unlocking the Gates (Princeton University Press), takes stock of that movement by focusing on some of its most high-profile players and their online successes and failures. (The Chronicle of Higher Education)

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They decided to spend $500 for an initial assessment from American Management Services, a consulting firm. When the assessment came in, the Sullivan brothers wondered whether they should pay $170,000 to have the firm develop a full turnaround plan.

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OK, so you think you're ready to buy a franchise. You've done some research. You've weighed the pros and cons. Yet in spite of how much preparation you've done, you still don't know the answer to the most pressing question: Will your business make money? (Entrepreneur)

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It's time to rethink your image of retirement. Whether you're years or decades away, you can make the new reality work for you. (Kiplinger)

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The tax cut extension package enacted last month made beneficial changes to the federal estate and gift tax rules for 2011 and 2012. That's good news, but your estate plan may need an update to take advantage of the benefits. Here's what unmarried individuals need to know. (Smart Money)

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The connection between banks and nuclear reactors is not obvious to most bankers, nor banking regulators. But to the men and women who study industrial accidents such as Three Mile Island, Deepwater Horizon, Bhopal or the Challenger shuttle – engineers, psychologists and even sociologists – the connection is obvious. (Slate)

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Over 40 years ago, Martin Luther King Jr. gave his "I Have a Dream" speech. These CEOs are the reality of that dream. (Exec Digital)

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Three days before Christmas, President Obama gathered his economic team in the West Wing’s Roosevelt Room to review themes for his State of the Union address. The edge-of-the-cliff crisis he inherited had passed, but with more than 14 million Americans still out of work, he was looking for bold ways to bring down unemployment. (The New York Times Magazine)

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You know the feeling: sometimes you just "click" with a person. Here author Ori Brafman tells you why you get that sensation – and how to create it with the people who work with you. (Inc.)

Visit http://www.inc.com/guides/201101/connect-with-angel-investors-venture-capitalists-for-your-start-up.html to view the full article online.

 

Sooner or later, all businesses, even the most successful, run out of room to grow. Faced with this unpleasant reality, they are compelled to reinvent themselves periodically. (Harvard Business Review)

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NBA teams are drumming up "Heritage" events, meant to court even the smallest émigré enclaves to the courts, and provide just a tad of buzz – and a souvenir trinket or two – to pump up attendance.(Wall Street Journal)

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