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Young America: Victims of irrational optimism
The effects of the financial crisis are still weighing on Millennials, but policy makers and business leaders are fooling themselves into believing that opportunities are ripe for America's younger set.
Apr 19, 2013 11:42 AM ET -
The benefits of being stupid at work
Why employees who aren't the sharpest knives in the drawer -- at least not that anyone can tell -- might do best of all.
Apr 17, 2013 11:57 AM ETPosted in: careers, communication, Employment, Ignorance, Intelligence, Office politics, Peter Principle, Psychology, Sheryl Sandberg, Stupidity -
NYU's part-time MBA: Worth the hustle?
Can you handle eight hours at the office, school at night, and multiple legs of New York City public transportation travel all in the same day?
Apr 16, 2013 3:00 PM ET -
Is there really such thing as a 'global CEO'?
If you look at the people who have become CEOs at the world's largest 2,500 public companies in 2012, most are natives, both to their company and their firm's home country.
Apr 16, 2013 5:00 AM ET -
Coming to a workplace near you: Fines for being fat?
When it comes to obesity -- a stubborn condition that the sharpest medical minds can't reliably treat -- is it fair to penalize an employee for staying heavy?
Apr 15, 2013 12:10 PM ET -
You've got 60 seconds with Warren Buffett: What's your pitch?
Forty-two startup hopefuls delivered a minute-long hypothetical pitch to the Oracle of Omaha at Rice's Business Plan Competition. Here are our favorites.
Apr 12, 2013 3:54 PM ET -
How to win a business plan competition
Past Rice Business Plan Competition victors dish on when to ignore the judges, how to pick investors, and what to do after you go home.
Apr 12, 2013 12:49 PM ET -
Leaning elsewhere: Are Harvard B-school women opting out?
A new study of HBS alumnae shows that female grads are leaving full-time work at surprising rates, sacrificing their careers for motherhood. But it's not necessarily what it seems.
Apr 12, 2013 8:45 AM ET -
Welcome to the business plan battle royale
Sharpen up those PowerPoint slides. The Rice Business Plan Competition kicks off in Houston with 42 startup ideas you wish you'd thought of.
Apr 11, 2013 11:31 AM ET -
Could a fast food strike work?
Fast food restaurant workers in New York City walked out last week, but it's unclear what effect the protests could have in the long-term.
By Elizabeth G. Olson
FORTUNE -- Fast food workers, like big-box retail employees and others facing a void of living-wage jobs in the rocky economy, have kept their heads down, earning minimal hourly wages and no benefits -- happy to have a job.
But some 400 plucky fast food MORE
Apr 9, 2013 10:19 AM ET
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CEO Roger Crandall thinks rates will remain low, but says MassMutual has diversified its portfolio to protect against any changes. Play -
CEO Roger Crandall says emerging economies like China are prime growth targets. Play -
Roger Crandall says that baby boomers will have to keep working into retirement and that young people have been scared off by the stock market. Play
