find itself back in the spotlight Wednesday morning, after a former employee took to the op-ed page of the Times with his resignation letter. Greg Smith, an executive director and head of the firm's United States equity derivatives business in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, criticized the investment bank for putting its own money-making ...

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A departing Goldman Sachs executive hands the investment bank, and its incoming public relations chief, a challenge to restore its reputation.

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up in The Worlds Greatest DJ?s series is Afrojack, who began playing piano at the age of five and at eleven, he started experimenting with the remix program Fruity Loops. Now at 24, Afrojack has multiple Grammy nominations under his belt. He won a 2011 Grammy for Remix of 's "Revolver" in collaboration with David ...

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Imagine a company that spends significant time, money and effort recruiting and teaching smart, bright interns in the full knowledge that it would not eventually hire them, but would instead be training them to work for its competitors. It sounds like a terrible strategy. Yet that is the strategy the United States is taking it ...

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Microsoft Corporation (NASD: MSFT) has been named as the ?Top Dividend Stock of the Nasdaq 100?, according to Dividend Channel, which published its most recent ?DividendRank? report. The report noted that among the components of the Nasdaq 100 index, MSFT shares displayed both attractive valuation metrics and strong profitability metrics. For example, the recent MSFT ...

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Downtown Vegas once WAS Vegas, but it stumbled twice - maybe the third time is the charm, or at least that's the hope for Las Vegas' newest arrival, The D Las Vegas Casino Hotel.

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PMC-Sierra shares are trading higher this morning after the chip maker announced a new authorization to buy back up to $275 million of its common stock. "This share repurchase program emphasizes the Board?s ongoing commitment to enhancing shareholder value, as well as our confidence in PMC's long-term financial outlook and growth opportunities," CEO Greg Lang ...

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Developing the next generation of women leaders is important, and as the Girl Scouts of the USA celebrate 100 years, Ruth Bramson, CEO of the Girl Scouts of Eastern Massachusetts, shares her best advice on building leadership skills.

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One 29-year-old writes of the despair of being an engineer with $90,000 in tuition debt and dim prospects. He asks if he should emigrate from the U.S.A. and dump his loans.

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Even as unemployment remains stubbornly above 8 percent, there?s one sector of the economy that is showing a rebound: manufacturing. While the easy jobs are gone, there?s one skill applicants can learn that will get them an offer from any manufacturer across the country ? and most likely, around the world. People who can run ...

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