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Entrepreneurs, fasten your seat belts. Whether you’re starting up your dream business this year or managing your established small company, 2016 will be a rollercoaster ride of potential opportunity — and pitfalls. (Entrepreneur)
Visit http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/270186 to view the full article online. |
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Shares of Suncorp, a Japanese technology company traded on the Tokyo stock exchange (ticker: 6736), soared 17% on Tuesday following the government’s court declaration that it "successfully accessed the data stored on [Syed] Farook’s iPhone." (Fortune)
Visit http://fortune.com/2016/03/29/fbi-iphone-stock-suncorp/ to view the full article online. |
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U.S. households are spending more but earning less, squeezing household budgets, a new Pew Charitable Trusts report find. (Wall Street Journal)
Visit http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2016/03/30/since-the-recession-were-spending-again-but-with-less-income/ to view the full article online. |
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Unemployment is difficult at any age, but it can be especially difficult when you are over 50. (Wall Street Journal)
Visit https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/get-there/plan-that-second-act-before-your-first-one-is-over/2016/03/25/632d6452-f0f4-11e5-89c3-a647fcce95e0_story.html to view the full article online. |
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Policies like unlimited vacation and remote work help employees manage life's demands. These companies make it work for the bottom line too. (Fast Company)
Visit http://www.fastcompany.com/3058344/the-future-of-work/5-flexible-work-strategies-and-the-companies-who-use-them to view the full article online. |
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Executives did not poorly evaluate white men for ‘diversity-valuing behaviors’ but punished women and minorities for similar practices, survey found. (The Guardian)
Visit http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/mar/25/women-minoriites-penalized-workplace-diversity-study to view the full article online. |
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There are close to 3,000 four-year colleges and universities in the United States. A small percentage are considered elite institutions of higher education. Degrees from these particular institutions are golden tickets, giving the recipients special access to the best opportunities in the American workforce. (Forbes)
Visit http://www.forbes.com/sites/schoolboard/2016/03/30/diversity-in-the-workplace-starts-with-diversity-in-higher-education/#3efb7bbb7ee2 to view the full article online. |
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Real concerns remain about the disparity between majority and minorities, women and men, young and old, heterosexuals and homosexuals, the disabled, and those of particular religions and nationalities. (New York Daily News)
Visit http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/enhancing-diversity-ongoing-challenge-companies-article-1.2581734 to view the full article online. |
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The Taiwanese company that assembles Apple’s iPhones agreed Wednesday to buy control of financially struggling Sharp Corp. for $3.5 billion in the first foreign takeover of a major Japanese electronics producer. (Wall Street Journal)
Visit https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/foxconn-agrees-to-buy-sharp-at-reduced-price/2016/03/30/56f11ea6-f651-11e5-958d-d038dac6e718_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-more-top-stories_foxconn-615am%3Ahomepage%2Fstory to view the full article online. |
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For thousands of years, Japan's ama or "women of the sea" have turned to the ocean for their livelihood and meals. These female divers go out to the sea with minimal gear, and use their bare hands to land their catch. (BBC)
Visit http://www.bbc.com/news/35888508 to view the full article online. |
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The number of students earning bachelor’s degrees is up, but between white and black students the gains are unequal. (takepartVisit http://www.takepart.com/article/2016/03/27/whats-behind-widening-black-white-college-graduation-gap to view the full article online.
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This year’s World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, recently published a list of the top 10 skills that will be needed for careers in 2020. They are developed at selective liberal arts colleges, says ELCA college leader. (Black Enterprise)
Visit http://www.blackenterprise.com/education/top-10-skills-tomorrows-leaders-will-need/ to view the full article online. |
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Have you ever wanted to shop with Black owned business in your city or when traveling across the United States? Not sure how to find local or national business that are owned by people that look like you and live in your community. (BlackNews.com)
Visit http://www.blacknews.com/news/where-u-mobile-app-building-black-wealth-nationwide/#.VvqpZVUrLGg to view the full article online. |
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Countering "macho" tech culture and bolstering women’s confidence can slow rush of mid-career women heading for the door. (Diversity Inc)
Visit http://www.diversityinc.com/diversity-management/53270/ to view the full article online. |
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Apple’s hopes of finding out how the FBI and an unidentified third party accessed data on the San Bernardino attacker’s iPhone are not dashed—yet. (Fortune)
Visit http://fortune.com/2016/03/30/apple-feds-cracked-iphone/ to view the full article online. |
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Minorities continue to struggle with credit management more than other business owners (Black Enterprise)
Visit http://www.blackenterprise.com/small-business/new-study-explores-troubling-state-of-minority-owned-businesses/ to view the full article online. |
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Private companies in the United States added 200,000 jobs in March, buoyed by strong gains in construction, retail and shipping. (New York Times)
Visit http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/31/business/economy/private-sector-adds-200000-jobs-adp-says.html?ref=economy&_r=0 to view the full article online. |
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California is on the verge of making itself a guinea pig in a bold economics experiment. (New York Times)
Visit http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/29/business/economy/15-hour-minimum-wage-in-california-plan-has-some-worried.html?ref=economy to view the full article online. |
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Banks are probably safer than people believe, and real estate, the sector investors are rushing to, has become riskier (Wall Street Journal)
Visit http://www.wsj.com/articles/distorted-markets-why-banks-are-better-off-than-you-think-and-real-estate-isnt-1459358253 to view the full article online. |
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Anyone shopping for a home today has probably had at least one encounter with sticker shock. No matter the neighborhood, home prices are generally rising, and bidding wars are often the rule rather than the exception. That means fewer neighborhoods are now considered affordable — a lot fewer. (CNBC)
Visit http://www.cnbc.com/2016/03/23/why-you-should-have-bought-a-home-last-year.html to view the full article online. |
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Do you have enough money to retire? That’s not an easy question to answer, but there are some ways to tell if you’re on track. Experts like to use the following methods to determine if you have enough to fund your desired lifestyle. (USA TODAY)
Visit http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/columnist/powell/2016/03/30/4-ways-tell-if-youre-financially-ready-retirement/78662234/ to view the full article online. |
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A study based on a 15-day reporting period by 100 married couples found these were the most frequent sources of marital conflict. While money wasn't the No. 1 most common source of conflict, the study found it was often the most difficult to resolve. (,i>NPR)
Visit http://www.npr.org/2016/03/08/469239033/how-to-keep-money-from-messing-up-your-marriage to view the full article online. |
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There's a little more to it than who you like and who you don't.(Fast Company)
Visit http://www.fastcompany.com/3058346/lessons-learned/heres-why-youre-more-helpful-to-some-coworkers-than-others to view the full article online. |
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Race to harness financial tech opens up wealth of MBA job opportunities (Business Because)
Visit http://www.businessbecause.com/news/mba-careers/3899/hottest-mba-jobs-in-finance-are-with-fintech to view the full article online. |
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A Massachusetts Institute of Technology economist and Harvard oncologist have a proposal to get highly effective but prohibitively expensive drugs into consumers' hands: health care installment loans. (NPR)
Visit http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/03/28/472171503/buying-costly-drugs-on-the-installment-plan-could-it-work to view the full article online. |
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Chinese insurance firm Anbang has raised its offer for Starwood Hotels to $14bn (£9.8bn), extending a bidding war with Marriott for the group. (bbc)
Visit http://www.bbc.com/news/business-35912484 to view the full article online. |
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What present and history have actually shown is the scant presence of Blacks in the wealthiest and most influential sectors of Cuban society; while they remain majoritarian in disempowered and poorer strati, and in prisons, of course. (Huffington Post)
Visit http://www.huffingtonpost.com/odette-casamayor/the-obamas-and-the-blacks_b_9555624.html to view the full article online. |
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The U.S. Supreme Court said Wednesday that the federal government cannot, before trial, seize the assets of the accused if those assets are unrelated to the crime and are needed to pay a defense attorney.(NPR)
Visit http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/03/30/472422503/supreme-court-feds-cant-seize-untainted-assets-needed-for-legal-fees to view the full article online. |
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Despite having generated billions in revenue over the past two decades, African-American women do not receive nearly enough attention for their entrepreneurial acumen. (Ebony)
Visit http://www.ebony.com/career-finance/black-women-bosses#axzz44KJQp4d0 to view the full article online. |
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Ways to deal with a team member who is annoying, inefficient, and not aligned with the CEO and the rest of the team. (Harvard Business Review)
Visit https://hbr.org/2016/03/how-to-handle-the-naysayer-on-your-team to view the full article online. |
