While MBA students' quantitative skills are prized by employers, their writing and presentation skills have been a perennial complaint. Employers and writing coaches say business-school graduates tend to ramble, use pretentious vocabulary or pen too-casual emails. (Wall Street Journal)

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The most important number in America might be wrong. The unemployment rate – released on the first Friday of each month – is watched obsessively. It is both a regular reminder of the pain inflicted on millions of workers by the Great Recession, and the most important indicator of whether a recovery is taking hold. (NPR)

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Amazon, Google, and Microsoft are going up against traditional infrastructure makers like IBM and HP as businesses move their most important work to cloud computing, profoundly changing how companies buy computer technology. (Bloomberg/Businessweek)

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Knowing the right people can help you land a job, but the company may not be a good fit for you. An impressive GPA and lengthy list of skills may help you get your foot in the door, but you probably won’t go too far on those things alone. (Forbes)

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In a new book, entrepreneur and CEO Margaret Heffernan argues that all of us give in to the dangerous temptation to ignore uncomfortable truths. (CNN)

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The price of oil has had an unnerving ability to blow up the world economy, and the Middle East has often provided the spark. (The Economist)

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With U.S. job growth still weak, business programs that top the latest Bloomberg Businessweek ranking are going global in a big way.

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NBMBAA is proud to sponsor the Multicultural Forum on Workplace Diversity, March 22-24 in Minneapolis, MN. Don't miss the largest diversity and inclusion conference in the country, which provides a compelling learning experience fostering business and thought leadership in workplace diversity and inclusion.

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With the birth of the internet came the promise of broadened horizons and fantastic new opportunities to connect people and viewpoints in ways we could not have imagined. But in reality, the internet has quickly encased us in personalization bubbles where increasingly the only people and ideas we encounter are the ones we already know. (Wired)

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What does Apple's new iPad 2 mean for you and your money? Here are five takeaways from Wednesday's product launch in San Francisco. (SmartMoney)

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The U.S. Small Business Association (SBA) is putting on an eight-city tour dubbed "Startup America: Reducing Barriers Roundtables," featuring senior officials from the Obama Administration, to get the public's input on how government can reduce barriers and be more supportive of innovation and entrepreneurship. (Fast Company)

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Now the feds want the banks to fork over $20 billion to reduce the principal amounts that homeowners owe on their mortgages, a settlement intended to encompass both appropriate punishment and practical redress. (Slate)

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With pump prices rising, consumers are starting to migrate to smaller vehicles. But it's not clear whether prices will remain high if political turmoil in Arab oil-producing nations recedes. (Los Angeles Times)

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The Sunflower State is only one of several looking to lessen what they call the regulatory burden on their states. Offices designed to repeal, review or "reinvent" regulations are sprouting up across the country. (CNN/Money)

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As politicians and economists puzzle over America's jobless recovery, managers who have started to hire again face another problem: how to handle all the overqualified candidates coming through their doors. (Harvard Business Review)

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Volunteering. Community service. Giving back. What if we could take the sum of all these selfless acts and apply them to Daylight Saving Time weekend? That is the basic concept of Serve 60, a national initiative that promotes volunteering and community service by asking all Americans to donate the 60 minutes lost or gained during Daylight Saving Time weekend to a nonprofit or serve within their communities. (Advertising Age)

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