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Building Green Can Mean Big Business

Recycling construction waste increases your bottom line. (More)

Pinpointing BP's Pitfalls: Eight Ways To Reconnect After A Disaster

How BP could have better connected with the public throughout the oil spill; and lessons you can learn from them. (More)

Three Ways To Make The Most Of The American Recovery & Reinvestment Act

Discover how your company can take advantage of ARRA's employment funds. (More)

Your Innovation Strategy Will Benefit The Nation's Innovation Goals

Discover a few tips to implementing an innovation strategy in your company, which could help the country on its way to developing a national strategy.

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10 Tips To Retain Talent

Learn helpful strategies that will allow you to hold on to your talent. (More)

GigaTrust is Selected by the Columbia (Md.) Capital Market Exchange To Present At June 17 Event

GigaTrust provides enterprises e-mail security and content protection software for the protection of intellectual property. (More)

Top Reasons To Build Green: The Other Green — It Saves Money

Designing buildings in an eco-friendly way can save money and the environment. (More)

Top Three Ways To Recycle Your Corporate Electronic Waste

Here are some smart ways to recycle electronic waste. (More)

Utilize Wind Power With A Small, Inexpensive Solution

Businesses can switch to wind-powered energy to shrink their carbon footprints. (More)

Creative Ways To Cut Monthly Communications Costs

A few ideas to improve your overall cash flow. (More)

A Transparency Crash Course

Seven steps to creating a more transparent organization. (More)

Does Your Business Really Have A Strategy?

Discover how to plan to work and work the plan. (More)

Rethinking Your Company's Next Move

Here is what you could be doing differently. (More)

Tools Are Cool But Processes Rule

Technology takes a back seat to processes. (More)

Seven Key Steps To Move Your Company From Surviving To Thriving

Here is how to swing the momentum in your favor. (More)

February Is National Career And Technical Education Month

Investment in career technical education is critical to improving the economy and preparing the future workforce. (More)

Four Places To Find Capital For Emerging Growth And Middle-Market Companies

As many businesses look to recover from the crippling hits their companies took in 2008 and 2009, their first order of business is finding capital to aid their rebuilding efforts.

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Millions Of Jobs Could Be Created With Policy Changes And New Infrastructure Investment

Milken Institute study shows changes to policies can add 2.9 million jobs by 2019. (More)

The Year of the Connector: Eight Ways to Make More Meaningful Business Connections in 2010

The secret to increasing your bottom line without increasing your budget this business year lies in your ability to connect. (More)

Top Three Myths About Workplace Injuries

Here's how you can bust them. (More)

The Character-Driven Company

Five simple rules to help yours become one in 2010. (More)

Challenger's New Year's Resolutions For The Workplace

Resolving to find or keep a job? Workplace experts offer advice. (More)

Five Leadership Tactics That Will Make 2010 A Pivotal Business Year

Quint Studer, author of Straight A Leadership, offers five simple tips for turning things around — fast. (More)

Sabotaging Success

Ten things to avoid for a successful strategic project portfolio management process. (More)

Shattering Expectations

Eleven lessons on how women can burst through the “glass ceiling” in business. (More)

Sneak Peek: What's Ahead? Site Selection Outlook For 2010-2015

Editor's Note: The following is an excerpt from an article that will appear in the January 2010 issue.

Industry leaders sound off as to what businesses can expect in the next five years. Their insights may surprise you.

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An Option To Tackle The H1N1 Virus

Telecommuting is a good idea to keeping productivity high during this crisis. However, businesses need the right telecommunications technologies and clear policies in order for telecommuting to be effective. (More)

Corporate Site Selection R.I.P.? No — But There's A Twist

Site location advisors and real estate executives respond to the following: “How the recession has changed the site selection process in ways that are likely to prevail for the foreseeable future.”
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LoopNet Releases Results Of Its Pulse Poll

Nearly half of the 1,000 respondents don't not expect a full recovery until 2011 or later. (More)

Manufacturing Institute Releases The Eighth Edition Of “Facts”

Report outlines the importance of manufacturing to the world's economies, as well as challenges to U.S. manufacturing. (More)

Social Networking Explodes As Job-Search Tool

Sites offer benefits, as well as pitfalls, as job seekers learn the ropes. (More)

TechAmerica Foundation Report Highlights Benefits of Low Cost Domestic Sourcing

Low Cost Domestic Sourcing: A Guide To Location Selection, provides a framework to help government agencies and private companies work through the evaluation process. (More)

Texas Metros Fill Top Ranks Of 2009 Best Performing Cities Index

Leaders are metros that avoided the worst of economic declines driven by falling housing markets and job losses in manufacturing and global trade. (More)

Upstream: Leadership Origins Of Customer Experience

Learn strategic priorities undertaken by effective leaders. This article is a follow up to “Customer Experience: Roots and Reasons,” posted to the Article Exclusives at bxjmag.com in July 2009. (More)

Executing An Effective Integrated Marketing Campaign

Get back to basics and develop marketing plans that will reach your target markets. (More)

Five Tips To Retain Top Talent

Even in a tough economy, it is difficult to retain top talent. (More)

Pandemic Could Cause Severe Absenteeism

Companies should prepare for potential swine flu outbreak. (More)

Ten Steps To Achieving Success

Here's how to not only achieve success, but also how to maintain it. (More)

Finders Keepers, Users Weepers?

Potential pitfalls of using a finder to raise capital. (More)

Freeing Up Hours

Learn how one association freed up more than 100 hours per week of senior executive time. (More)

How To Select The Best Logistics Partner

There are many considerations when selecting a firm to move your company to its new location. (More)

Raising Capital In An Economic Downturn — It Can Be Done

Learn the inside scoop to winning capital in today's marketplace. (More)

Talent: Eleven Ways To Spot Your “Rudolphs”

Keep your talent happy once you have found them.

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Five Tips For A Successful Group Move

What elements are necessary for a successful group move? (More)

Renewable Energy Production Grows

The march to 25x'25 is demonstrated by recently released Energy Information Administration numbers. (More)

Startup Activity Rises To Recent High

Starting business still too risky for most.

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Take Charge of your Economic Situation — Lead

It is time for leadership and not management in today's business environment. (More)

The Sustainability Equation

How green can you get? (More)

EMPLOYERS ANNOUNCE 74,393 JOB CUTS IN JUNE 2009

June job cuts fall to a 15-month low. (More)

Entergy Teams Up With States To Create Online Site Selection Centers

Online centers created for Arkansas and Louisiana aim to bring new jobs and prosperity to communities and states by showcasing their business advantages. (More)

Foreign Direct Investment Flows Into UK Expected To Slow

New OCO Global report reveals major transition in FDI, with contraction expected. (More)

Latest Job Search Stats Show Increased Relocation

Relocation rate at three-year high as desperate job seekers take more risks.

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National Infrastructure Bank Critical To United States

“We are at an inflection point,” says CG/LA leadership.

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Survey Finds Manufacturers Are Cautiously Optimistic

The survey indicates a tale of two manufacturing sectors — the winners and the losers. (More)

Why Your Employees' “Ordinary Greatness” Can Save Your Company

The men and women who work with you already possess the skills, the knowledge, and the insights to pull your company out of its slump.

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Challenger Corporate Cost-Cutting Survey

Companies slash salaries instead of staff. (More)

Cures For The Eight Common Small Business Ailments

Small business quirks don't have to be fatal. (More)

Customer Experience: Roots And Reasons

Customer experience and service are popular topics in business conversations. They are sometimes used synonymously, but often are not well understood or deeply considered.

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Manufacturing Ranked No.1 Industry For Economic Prosperity

Survey reveals wide perception gap between positive views of manufacturing's contributions, negative views of career opportunities. (More)

Pollina Corporate Top 10 Pro-Business States

America must be an integral part of global business if it is to remain a superpower. (More)

Top 60 U.S. “Next Cities” Ranking Released

Next Generation Consulting announces the best places to live and work for young professionals in three population categories, based on data from seven indexes. (More)

Could Quest For Working Capital Cripple Your Supply Chain?

Slashing inventory may leave companies unprepared for upturn. (More)

Fourteen Tips For Small Business

If your conversations are focused predominately on bad news, then you're seriously impeding your own success. (More)

The Anatomy Of Sending E-mails: Getting Back To The Personal Basics

E-mail has become the substitute for creating and maintaining interpersonal relationships. (More)

Inspire Customers

What can business learn from nonprofit organizations about inspiring customers?
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Most Executives Not Prepared To Reorganize And Recover

Executives are facing tough personnel decisions in the face of shrinking revenue but many are unsure of how to make the best decisions should they be forced to lay off employees or restructure their workforce.

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Nine Financing Solutions For The Liquidity Ice Age

The recession has created opportunities for entrepreneurs interested in buying small businesses. Yes, financing them can be tricky — but business valuation expert and author Chad Simmons explains how to do so it in spite of the credit crunch. (More)

Seven Steps To Being A Better Listener

Have you heard? More than 35 business studies indicate that listening is a top skill needed for success in business. (More)

Sustaining Your Business In A Tough Economy

Tell me what you do, not what you make…and why that's important. (More)