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		<title>The Evolution of the Corporate Event</title>
		<link>http://business.time.com/2013/03/08/the-evolution-of-the-corporate-event/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Mar 2013 17:27:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah Max</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By the time Paula Balzer joined TBA Global as its chief operating officer, she had already made a name for herself in corporate marketing and live events. &#8221; The founder of Red Giant Marketing, Balzer knew her way around the boardrooms at Fortune 100 companies and the entertainment industry. In 2011, she made the jump to New York-based TBA and began putting together memorable corporate events for clients such as Google, UPS and Walmart. The Walmart corporate event was billed as a “Superstar Show” that brought in Justin Timberlake, Celine Dion and Taylor Swift. As Balzer explains, in a world that&#8217;s increasingly virtual, live events have become more essential – even for small companies. Q: Companies used to get criticized for elaborate corporate events, but now it seems that people expect to be wowed. What’s happening? A: Live events in general, whether corporate or consumer-oriented have changed because of the expectation of the audience. The expectations are so much more advanced today largely because technology is more sophisticated. Retaining an audience’s attention is now one of the biggest challenges. (MORE: Will Reform of Fannie and Freddie Kill the 30-Year Mortgage) Q: Are you saying don&#8217;t bother with the rubber chicken entrée and PowerPoint presentation? A: People don’t tolerate the PowerPoint presentation any more. It’s like, seriously, is this all you have for me? In our industry, we talk of the effect of the CNN model, because it was the first that had multiple levels of information on a screen. Now that’s everywhere. People have come to expect it many levels of information coming at them. At our Walmart shareholders meeting, for instance, we had several different levels of communication happening simultaneously, including a video on the main screen and a ticker going around the arena. Q: Is this true even of smaller-scale events? A: Our feeling is that even small businesses need to focus on the story they’re telling. If you can effectively tell your story, the budget merely adds bells and whistles. You can go to an event and<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=business.time.com&#038;blog=31173800&#038;post=73105&#038;subd=timebusinessblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How Spending More on Academics Can Actually Hurt College Enrollment</title>
		<link>http://business.time.com/2013/01/31/how-spending-more-on-academics-can-actually-hurt-college-enrollment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2013 14:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Tuttle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;ve probably heard of college described as little more than a &#8220;party,&#8221; or perhaps as a &#8220;country club&#8221; where the emphasis is on socializing and top-notch campus amenities, not studying and a top-notch academic environment. It turns out there is good reason why many colleges today put more focus on fun. From a purely business standpoint, it not only makes sense for certain colleges to increase spending on high-end student amenities like health clubs and smoothie bars, it appears to be economically harmful for them to put more money toward higher-quality instruction and better overall education for students. That&#8217;s one of the findings in a new National Bureau of Economic Research paper entitled &#8220;College As Country Club: Do Colleges Cater to Students&#8217; Preferences for Consumption?&#8221; To answer the question in the title, the answer seems to be a resounding YES. And why wouldn&#8217;t they? Every business caters to its clientele, after all. This doesn&#8217;t necessarily mean that every college is doubling down on expenditures for sports, climbing walls, and plush student lounges and dorms, while cutting back on money aimed for top instructors and hi-tech research labs. Instead, colleges seem to be likely to skew spending in ways that most appeal to their student base. &#8220;More selective schools have a much greater incentive to improve academic quality,&#8221; the report&#8217;s authors write, because that&#8217;s what many of the institution&#8217;s students tend to value most. &#8220;High-achieving students have a greater willingness to pay for academic quality.&#8221; (MORE: Top Three Flawed Arguments of the Anti-College Crowd) But what about colleges that aren&#8217;t exactly in the realm of the Ivy League? The report states: Less selective schools (particularly privates), by comparison, have a greater incentive to focus on consumption amenities, since this is what their marginal students value. In fact, our estimates suggest that less selective schools will actually harm enrollment by spending more on instruction. To clarify, most students love the country club-like &#8220;consumption amenities&#8221; that are nearly ubiquitous on college campuses. But the authors say that &#8220;wealthy students are more willing to<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=business.time.com&#038;blog=31173800&#038;post=69075&#038;subd=timebusinessblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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	<primary_category>Educational Financing</primary_category><primary_category_link>http://business.time.com/category/planning/educational-financing/</primary_category_link>
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		<title>Davos Crib Sheet: Top Global Risks of 2013 (Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid)</title>
		<link>http://business.time.com/2013/01/23/davos-crib-sheet-top-global-risks-of-2013-be-afraid-be-very-afraid/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2013 09:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Belsky</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With world leaders, business titans, celebrity do-gooders and other publicity-and-hors-d&#8217;oeuvres hounds gathering in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland this week for the World Economic Forum annual meeting, now is as good a time as any to examine what this self-appointed group of world savers believes are the most pressing and/or dangerous problems at which to aim their impressive intellects. So here, for your reading pleasure and/or terror, is a highly edited summary and analysis of the WEF&#8217;s Global Risks 2013 report. It&#8217;s interesting reading, as much for what it tells us about the 1,000 experts whose opinions factored into its formation as it does about society&#8217;s impending perils. The good news—if such a phrase can be used to describe a report whose subject matter runs the gamut from &#8220;cyber attacks&#8221; through &#8220;rising religious fanaticism&#8221; all the way to &#8220;militarization of space&#8221;—is that only two threats appear on the WEF&#8217;s lists of top-five risks by likelihood and by impact. That is, according to the thousand or so experts from industry, academia, and civil society asked by the WEF to evaluate a set of 50 global risks—which Scientific American did a splendid job putting into graphic form—only two of those deemed most likely to cause the most damage are also deemed likely to happen in the near future. So, yes, the phrase &#8220;good news&#8221; is relative. &#8221;Bad news,&#8221; on the other hand, can be used without qualification, in that all the WEF&#8217;s most-likely risks are fairly terrifying, and none of the high-impact dangers seem especially far-fetched. But don&#8217;t let us influence your personal threat level; decide for yourself: Top 5 Most-Likely Risks 1. Severe Economic Disparity 2. Chronic Fiscal Imbalances 3. Rising Greenhouse Gas Emissions 4. Water Supply Crises 5. Mismanagement of Population Aging Top 5 Highest-Impact Risks 1. Major Systemic Financial Failure 2. Water Supply Crises 3. Chronic Fiscal Imbalances 4. Food Shortage Crises 5. Diffusion of Weapons of Mass Destruction (MORE: Four Keys to Decoding the World Economic Forum) As riveting as these lists of really bad things are—as well as Eurasia Group&#8217;s Top Risks 2013 and Ernst &#38; Young&#8217;s Top<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=business.time.com&#038;blog=31173800&#038;post=67334&#038;subd=timebusinessblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Could It Be? Customer Service Is Supposedly Getting Better</title>
		<link>http://business.time.com/2012/12/11/could-it-be-customer-service-is-supposedly-getting-better/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2012 13:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Tuttle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[And yet it&#8217;s more likely for customers to switch providers for Internet, pay TV, banking, and other services. Go figure. It seems as if everyone has a tale about Customer Service Hell. According to a new survey from the software firm Verint, less than half (49%) of consumers worldwide say that they are &#8220;net satisfied&#8221; with the businesses they regularly interact with, including retailers, utilities, financial services, and pay TV, phone, and broadband providers. In another global study, from Accenture, researchers cite &#8220;broken promises&#8221; as a prime reason that customers switch providers, followed by what seem to have become everyday customer service frustrations, including &#8220;dealing with agents who are unfriendly or impolite, having to contact customer service multiple times for the same reason, dealing with customer service agents who can’t answer their question, being on hold for a long time, and having to repeat the same information to multiple agents.&#8221; Unfortunately, these hassles probably sound familiar. Perhaps one or more of them even led to you jumping ship to switch a provider recently. Accenture&#8217;s data indicates 1 in 5 consumers switched a provider in 2012, a 5% increase compared to 2011. Consumers were particularly likely to change phone providers (26%, vs. 21% a year ago) and Internet service (23% vs. 19%). (MORE: How to Get Even for Poor Customer Service) These numbers, as well as old-fashioned word of mouth, would seem to be an indication that customer service is getting worse. According to Accenture data, though, fewer customers are dropping providers due to poor customer service, and customer service in general appears to be improving: In mature markets, switching due to poor service is also on the decline, dropping from 60 percent to 49 percent (the first time below 50 percent) during the same period. Furthermore, in conjunction with this global decline in switching due to poor service, consumers are generally somewhat more satisfied with many aspects of customer service this year, with three general service satisfaction characteristics measured increasing by at least 5 percentage points from last year. If<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=business.time.com&#038;blog=31173800&#038;post=63557&#038;subd=timebusinessblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Let the Gamification Begin</title>
		<link>http://business.time.com/2012/11/14/let-the-gamification-begin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2012 16:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Victor Luckerson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Though William Shakespeare once wrote that all the world’s a stage, the online world is now evolving into a series of games instead. Gamification, the integration of game design concepts into non-game scenarios, is growing increasingly popular in the business world. Though still an experimental business strategy, gamification is expected to be used by 70% of the world’s 2000 largest companies in some form by 2014 and generate $2.8 billion in consumer spending by 2016. If you’ve ever racked up frequent flyer miles, checked the reward points on your credit card, or become the mayor of a local restaurant on FourSquare, you’ve already participated in a basic form of gamification. But companies are finding new ways to introduce game elements that will change how we shop and how we work. “Games have been around as long as human civilization has been around. They tap into some very deep and fundamental aspects of our psychology,” says Kevin Werbach, author of the gamification book For the Win. “If you can build something using that structure [of games], with feedback and an ability to progress toward mastery, it has a very powerful resonance for people.” (MORE: The People&#8217;s Bailout: Occupy Wall Street Wants to Forgive Your Debt) Many big-name companies have already gotten into the game, as it were. Last year Coca-Cola launched a “Happiness Quest” through its vending machines in Japan. People can use their smartphones to scan a QR code on the machines, which will then create a virtual vending machine avatar. Players can then earn points to customize their vending-machine character by scanning more Coke machines. They can also earn badges by finding machines on holidays or at lunch time. Smaller companies are also gamifying. Sneakpeeq, a discount online retailer that specializes in boutique items, has built its entire user interface around gamification by partnering with Badgeville, a company that provides game mechanics tools to businesses. Users earn points on the site by flipping over a virtual price tag to “peeq” at the deal the website is offering on a<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=business.time.com&#038;blog=31173800&#038;post=60564&#038;subd=timebusinessblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Attention Employers: Don&#8217;t Sleep On Workers&#8217; Insomnia</title>
		<link>http://business.time.com/2012/10/10/attention-employers-dont-sleep-on-workers-insomnia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2012 12:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Belsky</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Add employee sleeping habits to the list of problems that workplace managers will have to start worrying a little more about: According to a study released earlier this month, insomnia-related workplace accidents happen more often and cost more than anyone had imagined.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=business.time.com&#038;blog=31173800&#038;post=51165&#038;subd=timebusinessblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Can Robots Bring Manufacturing Jobs Back to the U.S.?</title>
		<link>http://business.time.com/2012/09/27/can-robots-bring-back-manufacturing-jobs-to-the-u-s/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2012 12:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Matthews</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Heading into the 20th century, America was a predominantly rural country. Roughly 40% of the nation’s labor force toiled on farms alongside 22 million work animals. One hundred years later, fewer than 2% of U.S. workers are employed on farms, and those beasts of burden have been replaced by 5 million gas-powered tractors. Of course, the cause of this transformation was a technological revolution that lured workers from farms to more lucrative employment in urban areas. Simultaneously, farming became more efficient and needed less labor to produce the same amount of food. The U.S. manufacturing sector has been going through a similar transformation over the past 70 years. Manufacturing employment peaked at nearly 40% of the non-farm workforce during World War II and has since fallen to roughly 9% of the working population, according to data from the Labor Department. The total number of manufacturing jobs has been more or less steadily decreasing since the late 1970s. (MORE: Double Robotics Lets You Turn Your iPad into a Telepresence Robot) But recently, something strange has been happening. In the past two years, manufacturing employment has actually increased by roughly half a million. The media has dubbed this new trend &#8220;reshoring,&#8221; whereby rising wages in the developing world, combined with escalating energy costs has made it more efficient in many cases for companies to make products in the U.S. that will ultimately be sold here. Meanwhile there are others who think that robotics can help America make a more permanent play for manufacturing jobs. This may be a bit counterintuitive. After all, as robotics becomes more cost-effective, won’t machines do more of the work that humans are currently doing and therefore take those jobs? Not necessarily, according to Rodney Brooks, co-founder of Rethink Robots, a Boston-based robot manufacture. Rethink is releasing a new manufacturing robot called “Baxter,” which is equipped with sophisticated software that can help the machine actually learn tasks, recognize different objects and react intelligently to force. Baxter is designed to help manufacturers automate tasks inside their factories so that human workers are free to<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=business.time.com&#038;blog=31173800&#038;post=50211&#038;subd=timebusinessblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Google+ Hangout: Are Retailers Watching Our Every Move?</title>
		<link>http://business.time.com/2012/09/21/google-hangout-are-retailers-watching-our-every-move/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Sep 2012 15:43:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Matthews</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For better or for worse, consumers have gotten used to the idea of being tracked online. Retailers and other businesses have many methods at their disposal to see what we're doing online so that they can market more effectively to us. In today's Google+ Hangout, I've invited two experts on the topic: Pam Dixon of the World Privacy Forum and Laura Davis-Taylor of the advertising firm BBDO to talk about how stores are using these technologies to improve store operations, and at the same time, how consumers can protect their privacy from prying eyes.
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		<title>&#8216;Moral Decoupling:&#8217; How Consumers Justify Supporting a Tarnished Brand</title>
		<link>http://business.time.com/2012/09/17/moral-decoupling-how-consumers-justify-supporting-a-tarnished-brand/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2012 12:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Knowledge@Wharton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recent history is littered with high-profile people -- actors, athletes and politicians -- who have not only survived scandals, but thrived beyond them.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=business.time.com&#038;blog=31173800&#038;post=49375&#038;subd=timebusinessblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Public-Private Partnerships: The President&#8217;s Stealth Plan To Create Jobs?</title>
		<link>http://business.time.com/2012/09/12/new-public-private-partnership-the-presidents-stealth-plan-to-create-jobs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2012 12:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Belsky</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two recently released documents give an inside look at the President's efforts to create jobs.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=business.time.com&#038;blog=31173800&#038;post=48863&#038;subd=timebusinessblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Poll: Is it Okay for Retailers to Track Customers&#8217; Shopping Behavior While in Stores?</title>
		<link>http://business.time.com/2012/09/10/poll-is-it-okay-for-retailers-to-track-customers-shopping-behavior-while-in-stores/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2012 00:02:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TIME Staff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Feeling the pinch of online competition, many brick-and-mortar retailers are hoping to emulate these tactics. What's more, technology already exists that can identify customers in a store -- through their smart phones, and even through video cameras that use facial recognition software -- and track their shopping behavior. Not surprisingly, these developing technologies have raised privacy concerns -- even as industry experts insist that they can and will be used responsibly.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=business.time.com&#038;blog=31173800&#038;post=48840&#038;subd=timebusinessblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Top Reasons Why Americans Stay At Their Jobs (And What It Means For The Presidential Campaign)</title>
		<link>http://business.time.com/2012/08/31/top-reasons-why-americans-stay-at-their-jobs-and-what-it-means-for-the-presidential-campaign/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Aug 2012 15:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Belsky</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What&#8217;s the No. 1 reason people continue working for their employer? Is it the pay? The benefits? A lack of better options? Those are obvious answers, especially given today&#8217;s unemployment numbers and sluggish economy. But they&#8217;re not  the correct ones. The top reasons Americans give for not leaving their current job are  &#8221;I enjoy the work I do&#8221; and it &#8220;fits well with the other areas of  my life.&#8221; That&#8217;s according to a new survey commissioned by the American Psychological Association, which contains a number of revealing insights into employee motivation that ought to be of interest to corporate managers and governmental policy makers.The APA&#8217;s &#8220;Workforce Retention Survey&#8221; was conducted by Harris Interactive in early August. Some 1,240 full- and part-time workers, age 18 or older, were asked to evaluate nine common reasons for staying with a current employer. Here&#8217;s how their answers ranked, as measured by the percentage of participants who said they &#8220;agreed&#8221; or &#8220;strongly agreed&#8221; with a statement: I enjoy the work I do (67%) My job fits well with the other areas of my life (67%) The benefits (60%) The pay (59%)  I feel connected to the organization (56%) My co-workers (51%) My job gives me the opportunity to make a difference (51%) My manager (40%) There aren&#8217;t any other job opportunities for me (39%) (MORE: Recognize Employees Who Stand Up) Surveys can only tell you so much, of course. But as much as anything, these top-line results suggest that despite all the media coverage about the U.S. economy, most employed Americans feel confident enough about their work situation to value the fulfillment they get from their job as much as—and sometimes more than— the financial rewards they receive or their prospects for alternative employment. That might be of particular interest to Mitt Romney&#8217;s presidential campaign, given its official&#8217;s insistence that what their candidate really wants to talk about is the economy. Voters, especially unemployed voters, certainly worry about job creation and GDP growth, but perhaps not the extent that the Republicans seem to believe. Mostly, people care about being happy and enjoying their lives,<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=business.time.com&#038;blog=31173800&#038;post=47992&#038;subd=timebusinessblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Future of Retail: How Companies Can Employ Big Data to Create a Better Shopping Experience</title>
		<link>http://business.time.com/2012/08/31/future-of-retail-how-companies-can-employ-big-data-to-create-a-better-shopping-experience/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Aug 2012 12:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Matthews</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You don’t have to be a management consultant to know that we are all besieged by information, but it’s the consultant’s job to come up with a snappy buzzword to describe the phenomenon, and they have settled upon the catchall term “Big Data.” Everything from the most trivial details of our personal lives to highly sensitive information at work is now stored and catalogued in bits and bytes; Big Data refers to the deployment of these vast troves of information to make businesses more efficient and responsive to clients and consumers. From healthcare to finance to professional sports, data is being collected and analyzed like never before &#8212; but much of it goes on behind the scenes where the average person may not even notice. The retail sector, however, is different. By definition it interacts with average folks in a way that few other industries do, and retailers are interested in learning as much about their customers as they can. In the process, they are radically altering the buying experience for customers &#8212; both online and, increasingly, also in the world of bricks and mortar stores. If you’ve done any shopping online recently – you’ve probably already seen Big Data in action. We’ve all experienced it: You go shopping for a pair of shoes online, put them in your virtual shopping cart, but then for some reason change our mind. Afterwards, seemingly every site you visit features an ad for that very pair of shoes at that same online store. The reason? Online retailers can give you a virtual identification number and track you as you go from site to site, and purchase targeted ads for products they already know you&#8217;re strongly interested in. (MORE: Future of Retail: Companies That Profit By Investing in Employees) Based on a user&#8217;s behavior, sites like Amazon can present special offers or alert users of products they might not have otherwise been aware. According to a report issued last year by McKinsey Global Institute, Amazon has had tremendous success by using data it has collected<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=business.time.com&#038;blog=31173800&#038;post=47882&#038;subd=timebusinessblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Six Reasons Why &#8220;Gamification&#8221; Will Rule the Business World</title>
		<link>http://business.time.com/2012/08/28/six-reasons-why-gamification-will-rule-the-business-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Aug 2012 12:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Belsky</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The term, which has been around for a few years, refers to any number of ways in which businesses try to engage customers and/or employees using the core principles of, well,  games. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=business.time.com&#038;blog=31173800&#038;post=47624&#038;subd=timebusinessblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How To Get Innovation from the Big Middle</title>
		<link>http://business.time.com/2012/08/17/how-to-get-innovation-from-the-big-middle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Aug 2012 14:49:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Ogilvie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many managers and employees think innovation is reserved for their top VPs and a handful of select individuals. The problem is these creative thinkers are in short supply and are already deployed against the organization’s most vexing challenges. Instead of trying to pile more onto their plates -- a sure innovation killer -- companies must learn how to tap into the innovation capacity of the organization’s middle.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=business.time.com&#038;blog=31173800&#038;post=46920&#038;subd=timebusinessblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Google+ Hangout: Are You Too Busy To Get Anything Done?</title>
		<link>http://business.time.com/2012/08/15/google-hangout-are-you-too-busy-to-get-anything-done/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2012 16:03:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Medintz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you answered "yes" to that question, you will likely find some comfort -- and useful advice -- in today's Google+ Hangout, a conversation with workplace experts on strategies that workers, companies, and managers can use to address the growing problem of what we might call "Fast Work."<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=business.time.com&#038;blog=31173800&#038;post=46649&#038;subd=timebusinessblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Nap On This: Why The Business of Sleep Will Keep Booming</title>
		<link>http://business.time.com/2012/08/15/dont-nap-on-this-why-the-business-of-sleep-will-keep-booming/</link>
		<comments>http://business.time.com/2012/08/15/dont-nap-on-this-why-the-business-of-sleep-will-keep-booming/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2012 14:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Belsky</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One day, when smog-free cars run on sea water and every loophole in the tax code has been closed, the entirety of humanity will be in such a glorious state of physical fitness and spiritual bliss that falling asleep will be as simple as  laying one's head on a pillow. Until that day, however, the business of helping people get a good night's rest is likely to remain what it is: A fast-growing sector in an otherwise slow-moving economy.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=business.time.com&#038;blog=31173800&#038;post=46586&#038;subd=timebusinessblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Poll: Does Tech Help or Hurt Workplace Productivity?</title>
		<link>http://business.time.com/2012/08/07/ideas-for-business-poll-does-tech-help-or-hurt-workplace-productivity/</link>
		<comments>http://business.time.com/2012/08/07/ideas-for-business-poll-does-tech-help-or-hurt-workplace-productivity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2012 18:22:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TIME Staff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Please tell us where you come down on this question by participating in the following (thoroughly unscientific) poll.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=business.time.com&#038;blog=31173800&#038;post=45898&#038;subd=timebusinessblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Differentiation: A Surprising Story of Sameness</title>
		<link>http://business.time.com/2012/08/07/differentiation-a-surprising-story-of-sameness/</link>
		<comments>http://business.time.com/2012/08/07/differentiation-a-surprising-story-of-sameness/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2012 13:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Taddy Hall </dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If anything could be considered sacred in business, differentiation would be a top candidate. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=business.time.com&#038;blog=31173800&#038;post=45460&#038;subd=timebusinessblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Need for Speed</title>
		<link>http://business.time.com/2012/07/26/need-for-speed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jul 2012 19:53:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roya Wolverson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fashion can do a lot for the public personas of politicians&#8217; wives. Jackie Kennedy&#8217;s iconic pillbox hats, boxy crew cardigans and bouffant hairstyle inspired women around the world to imitate her glamorous look. Today&#8217;s political spouses still sport Jackie O.&#8211;level bling; take, say, the $2,000 Sophie Theallet sundress Michelle Obama wore on her Hawaiian vacation or Ann Romney&#8217;s $990 Reed Krakoff bird-print blouse worn in a recent television interview. But in the wake of the Great Recession, style hawkers have been quick to point out the more affordable items those women are donning too. Thriftier threads can make high-rolling politicos and their wives seem more relatable. Kate Middleton&#8217;s first postnuptial outing with Prince William, in a $90 cornflower blue shift from Spanish retailer Zara, endeared her to Middle England. In the U.S., Michelle Obama&#8217;s Today show appearance in an H&#38;M polka-dot ditty had a similar effect. But the rise of bercheap apparel chains like Zara, H&#38;M and Uniqlo, which are popularly called fast-fashion retailers for their ability to churn out modish styles at record speed, also carries big costs for U.S. apparel makers and the environment. In recent years, cut-rate European and Japanese clothiers have raked in more customers and bigger profits than traditional U.S. apparel companies like Gap and American Eagle Outfitters by mass-producing lower-quality digs that keep pace with runway styles. That&#8217;s led more shoppers to cast aside hefty chunks of their wardrobes as fresh looks come up, which leads to more waste. The fashion frenzy has picked up speed since the financial crisis, as traditional U.S. clothiers try to win back trend seekers on a budget from more-agile competitors. Slow goers like Gap and Macy&#8217;s are swapping out big orders of staples like T-shirts for smaller, more frequent batches of hot knickknacks like handbags and hair bobbles. But with wages rising in China, the fast-fashion model&#8211;which relies on higher sales volumes and slimmer profit margins&#8211;could hurt American clothing companies and jobs, since they rely more on Chinese manufacturers. Unlike with European brands that can source quickly from<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=business.time.com&#038;blog=31173800&#038;post=45005&#038;subd=timebusinessblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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