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Is Your Marketing Strategy a Recipe for Failure? (29 January 09:48) |
| The Fast Interview: Marketing maven Seth Godin on why it's hard to sell meatballs and why those Bud TV Super Bowl ads fail. Plus two words of advice: Parrot Chow!
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Urban Outfitters (19 January 05:45) |
| The nonprofit Sweat Equity Enterprises equips firms from Radio Shack to Skechers with product designs and marketing ideas from inner-city youth. |
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Scuttling Scut Work (19 January 05:45) |
| Pfizer devises a new kind of outsourcing--just for the time-wasting parts of your job.
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Yahoo's Rally Cry (19 January 05:45) |
| The Web portal has scored with its sports site. Does its success point the way to Yahoo's future?
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Resolution or Goal? You make the Call. (19 January 05:45) |
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Devil's Food (19 January 05:45) |
| Big Food wants everything bad to be good for you. |
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Lost in the Funhouse (19 January 05:45) |
| The battle between starchitect Frank Gehry and MIT reveals the widening chasm between design and down-to-earth craft.
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Is Bacteria Fuel the Next Big Thing? (19 January 05:45) |
| While LS9’s research seems promising, bacteria fuel will have some competition to become the fuel of the future. Here’s a look at how it compares with three other major players among alt... |
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Top Jobs of 2008 (18 January 07:44) |
| What are the top jobs for 2008? FastCompany.com crunched the numbers, spoke to the experts, and came up with the job outlook for 2008 and beyond.
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Tops Jobs 2008: Courting Your Career (18 January 07:44) |
| Careers expert and author of Courting Your Career, Shawn Graham, tells FastCompany.com how dating and job hunting have more in common than one might think.
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No Child Left Offline (12 January 05:44) |
| The Fast Interview: MIT Professor Nicholas Negroponte on Intel's "dishonesty" and the long, tough road to the $100 laptop.
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The Wonderful World of Widgets (05 January 05:43) |
| A sampling of the top widget companies, their offerings, and the businesses benefiting from their services.
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Widgets: From Hype to Hits (05 January 05:43) |
| Last year, Newsweek predicted that 2007 would be "the year of the widget." This July, developers gathered in New York for Widgetcon, a conference devoted exclusively to widgets. Whether or n... |
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Can Green Homes be Mass Produced? (25 December 09:47) |
| The Fast Interview: Architect Michelle Kaufmann on finding an alternative to endless subdivisions of McMansions.
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Can Russell Simmons Unite the Hip-Hop Community on The Web? (19 December 07:48) |
| Back in 2000 hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons bankrolled the short-lived hip-hop news, entertainment, and community Website 360hiphop.com. Now he and a group of investors are trying again. |
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Inspired By ... (04 December 07:49) |
| Five brands cited by cofounder Young Lee as influences on Pinkberry. |
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The Power of Shape Shifters (04 December 07:49) |
| Three companies reinvent the paraphernalia of everyday life with an eye on aesthetics, utility--and profits. |
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Berry, Berry Ambitious (04 December 07:49) |
| With help from celeb friends and fancy chairs, the fro-yo chain Pinkberry has whipped up plenty of hype, but can it--and should it--become the Starbucks of soft-serve? |
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When There’s a Clear Target, the Right Details are Easier to Find (04 December 07:49) |
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Get Back in the Box (04 December 07:49) |
| How constraints can free your team’s thinking |
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To The Moon! (In a Minivan) (04 December 07:49) |
| How NASA and Lockheed Martin are building a successor to the Space Shuttle--using off-the-shelf technology and plain old pragmatism. |
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Trolling Apple’s Patents (27 November 11:44) |
| Apple is a notoriously secretive company. But it can't hide public filings such as patent applications. Adam L. Penenberg takes a look below at recent examples that may shed light on Steve J... |
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All Eyes On Apple (27 November 11:44) |
| Will the gray light of January cool the world's hottest company? |
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What Makes a Product Cool (22 November 07:44) |
| The Fast Interview: Steve Quartz on neuromarketing – and why iPods are like heroin. |
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Why You Should Include a Joker in Every Brainstorming Session (10 November 07:45) |
| The Fast Interview: John Morreall on the link between humor and innovation, why authoritarian bosses fear humor, and the funniest CEO in America. |
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What Paris Hilton Can Teach You About Branding (26 October 03:46) |
| The Fast Interview: Alex Bogusky, an ad guy who definitely doesn't shy away from controversy. |
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After the Virgin Birth (20 October 05:41) |
| Fred Reid, CEO of the fledgling carrier Virgin America, talks management strategy and explains his beef with airline food. |
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Conferences (20 October 05:41) |
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The Evolution of Diesel (20 October 05:41) |
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Analysis of Paralysis (20 October 05:41) |
| If your strategy doesn't help employees act, it's not a strategy. |
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eBay’s Chaos Theory (20 October 05:41) |
| With its buyers swamped by a sea of choices-and its growth rate slowing-the online giant gambles on helping shoppers find what they want. |
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Facebook is the "It" Company of 2007 (20 October 05:41) |
| 41 million users and growing. The cool spot for coders. The hot place to test a business. The "it" company of 2007. |
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Motorhead Messiah (20 October 05:41) |
| Johnathan Goodwin can get 100 mpg out of a Lincoln Continental, cut emissions by 80%, and double the horsepower. Does the car business have the guts to follow him? |
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At Frog, Being Green Isn’t Easy; It’s Essential (20 October 05:41) |
| Committing to clean design. |
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Pulling the Trigger (26 September 09:42) |
| Often the greatest regret after you fire someone is that you didn't do it earlier -- sometimes it's just better to fire sooner than later. |
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Five Trends That Will Transform Society (22 September 03:41) |
| Author Richard Watson examines emerging patterns and developments and society, politics, science and technology, media and entertainment, and other industries in his book Future Files: A His... |
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Why We'll Take Longer Baths in the Future (22 September 03:41) |
| Prediction is a dangerous game -- the future is never a straight linear extrapolation from the present. Unexpected innovations and events will conspire to trip up the best-laid plans -- but ... |
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Spicing Up the Gum Trade (22 September 03:41) |
| The Wrigley Global Innovation Center is changing the way the venerable candy maker creates products. How a sleek new chew came to be. |
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Courting Viewers (22 September 03:41) |
| Can Steve Koonin save another cable network? |
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Business Left Undone (22 September 03:41) |
| Bill McGuire left UnitedHealth in the wake of an options scandal. While he awaits his fate, he refocuses on his great passion: reforming health care. |
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The Future Earth Diet (22 September 03:41) |
| Bon Appétit Management Co.'s latest initiative in the 400-plus corporate cafés it manages is a low-carbon diet. The plan aims to minimize the carbon footprint of Bamco's food-s... |
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Streamlining HP (22 September 03:41) |
| Sam Lucente's business is corporate design. Persuasion is his game. |
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Did the Web Help Kanye Outsell 50 Cent? (21 September 03:41) |
| No one really believed that 50 Cent would stop recording if Kanye West outsold him, did they? Some wanted it to be true though, as was witnessed when this latest hip-hop rivalry played out h... |
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Seven Questions with the 4-Hour Workweek Evangelist (15 September 03:43) |
| We've all heard it's better to work smarter, not harder. According to author Timothy Ferriss, the real secret is figuring out how to barely work at all. |
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The Social Networking Guide for Newbies (15 September 03:43) |
| Don't be left behind. Everybody's doing it: politicians, kids, moms, rock stars, even granny. |
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How An Independently Owned African-American Circus Made It To The Big Top (15 September 03:43) |
| With Nintendo, MTV, and MySpace all competing for the attention of America's youth, along comes a live show like UniverSoul Circus that tries to set them free with its unique re-imagining of... |
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The Future of Air Travel (12 September 03:57) |
| Get expert insights from Robert Buckman, Director of airline distribution strategy for Amadeus, on how air travel has changed, what trends are catching on, and what changes travelers can con... |
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Out of the Bedroom and Into the Office (11 September 03:53) |
| Sleep doesn’t have to be the new sex, and workplace productivity really doesn’t have to suffer because of tired employees. With napping devices like the EnergyPod, employees can now comb... |
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The Short, Shady History of Hollywood South (18 August 03:38) |
| One New Orleans industry survived Katrina: its booming film business. Now the lawsuits are flying, and the old rot is setting in fast. Another sad tale from the city that just can't stop its... |
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The Inevitability Of $300 Socks (18 August 03:38) |
| How ideas pave the way for products. |
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