All Business Is Good Business: October 2014

Friday, October 31, 2014

Wealth Matters: A Billion Still to Spend, And Only Two Years to Do It

Foundations that plan their own demise have bucket lists and regrets too.

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Retiring: The Ethical Will, an Ancient Concept, Is Revamped for the Tech Age

Originally an oral tradition to pass on wisdom from a family patriarch or matriarch, ethical wills today are more likely to be videos or Facebook pages.

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Wednesday, October 29, 2014

White House Cites a Breach by Hackers

Hackers recently breached an unclassified computer network used by President Obama’s senior staff, a White House official said Tuesday night.

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The New Health Care: A Formula to Find the Uninsured Around the Country

Enroll America began with a huge phone survey of 12,000 adults and added neighborhood data.

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Federal Reserve Plans Next Phase as End to Stimulus Program Is Expected

The Federal Reserve is expected to announce the end of its last round of quantitative easing, a move that markets have anticipated for nine months.

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Christopher Viehbacher, Sanofi Chief, Ousted by Board

The announcement came one day after the company’s shares had their biggest drop since 1999, after a warning that sales growth in its top-selling drug was faltering.

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DealBook: Shell Midstream Partners Raises $920 Million in New York I.P.O.

The limited partnership, which owns stakes in a group of pipelines on the American gulf coast, sold 40 million shares in the offering.

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DealBook: Deutsche Bank Posts Net Loss of $117 Million in Third Quarter

The report of the loss by Germany’s largest bank came as it set aside more money to cover costs stemming from accusations of wrongdoing.

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Tuesday, October 28, 2014

Advertising: Seeing a Value in Simplicity

The 2014 Global Brand Simplicity Index ranked brands for how simple they were to use and understand, a quality of rising popularity among consumers and marketers.