All Business Is Good Business: May 2014

Saturday, May 31, 2014

DealBook: Regulators Find Insider Trading Case Tied to Phil Mickelson Is Slow to Take Shape

Nearly three years after the trades flashed some telltale signs of possible insider trading, a case has yet to materialize.

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American Businesses in China Feel Heat of a Cyberdispute

Following the Justice Department’s indictment of five members of the Chinese Army on economic cyberespionage charges, Chinese government agencies are reviewing their use of IBM servers — an example of the growing threat of retaliation against U.S. companies.

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Business School, Disrupted

In moving into online education, Harvard Business School discovered that it isn’t so easy to practice what it teaches.

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First Person: There’s Nothing Wrong With Being a Banker

My job helped me develop skills that have served me well outside finance.

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Circa Now: Office Help Is On the Way, Virtually Speaking

In today’s world, helpers and aides seem ever more a commodity reserved for the infirm or the lushly wealthy.

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Unlocking Secrets, if Not Its Own Value

Palantir Technologies’ intelligence software is gaining fans worldwide, and some investors want to cash in.

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Fair Game: Not Walking the Walk on Board Diversity

From two companies, unfulfilled promises about diversity among directors.

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Technophoria: The Enduring Promise of a Thinner You

New fat-zappers are the latest in a long line of products advertised as offering quick slimming without surgery.

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Vocations: The Broadcast Captioner: Catching Their Every Word

A real-time broadcast captioner says her job “is a bit like a musician playing “Flight of the Bumblebee” — one has to be extremely fast to do the work well.