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With health insurance costs rising for small businesses, many worry about hiring employees with potential health risks. Make sure you understand the laws.

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4 Tips for Fixing Your Business Blind Spots

By Hanna Hasl-Kelchner | Filed In: Legal

Good business communications and other records can go a long way towards preventing and mitigating lawsuits.

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Entrepreneurship Has No Business in Higher Education

By Ivan Schneider | Filed In: Colleges & Universities and Education Systems & Institutions

More universities want to teach entrepreneurship. They're missing the point of what makes a successful entrepreneur in the first place.

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America’s Last Optimists

By Tim Devaney and Tom Stein | Filed In: Recruitment & Hiring and Human Resources & Personnel Management

Survey of 1,016 small-business owners finds that 579 of them plan to hire new workers this year. Are these the last upbeat people in America?

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Don't Get Burned: Tips for Preventing Office Fires

By Guest Blogger | Filed In: Office Property and Commercial Property

An office fire can be a deadly mishap. Here are some tips to keep your business and your employees out of harm's way.

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By Hanna Hasl-Kelchner | Filed In: Computer Crime and Cybercrime

LimeWire learns you can't hide from the law....

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Workplace Wellness: Creating a Culture of Health

By Rebecca Mazin | Filed In: Workplace Programs and Compensation & Benefits

The social environment of the workplace is a perfect place to encourage habits that influence others.

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Regional Foods: American BBQ!

By Ken Walker | Filed In: Texas, USA and West USA

If you ask a Texan who makes the best BBQ, he’ll point you to a fellow Texan (or to himself). If you ask the same question of a man from Kansas City, or...

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Something for the Ladies

By Hoover's Editors | Filed In: Women Demographics and Demographic Groups

Hoover's spotlights seven companies that put a spin on stereotypically tough-guy goods.

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The Charlie Sheen Effect: Should Your Company Fire Misbehaving Employees?

By Kathy Murdock | Filed In: Misconduct and Ethics

As Charlie Sheen Twitters his desires to find an intern whose veins are filled with Tiger’s Blood, I don’t sit back and wonder what will happen next in this actor’s life. Instead I...

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Credit Card Fraud is the New Theft Frontier

By John Foley | Filed In: Credit Cards and Payment Cards & Services

The next week I did my own inventory. I caught the discrepancy and the salmon smoking chef was gone. The losses I suffered were probably astronomical throughout the three months he ran my...

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Can Wikileaks Pierce the Church Confessional?

By Hanna Hasl-Kelchner | Filed In: Clergy & Religious and Religion

Every technology has a dark side. With the Internet transactions that were previously anonymous are now documented.

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Business Lessons from the Best

Filed In: Entrepreneurship and Company Structures & Ownership

15 remarkable American entrepreneurs -- from Marc Andreessen to Sam Walton -- share quotes that encapsulate their wisdom and inspiration on key issues facing small businesses, from branding to leadership and beyond.

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Overscheduling our Kids: A Problem or a Protective Step?

By Kathy Murdock | Filed In: Students & Student Life and Education & Training

We talk a lot about overscheduling our kids, but can a busy schedule actually be a good thing?

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