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Blue Nile’s CEO since 2008, Diane M. Irvine Never had time to celebrate her rise to the position, for the sales of the previous holiday season was worse than expected, and the credit crunch meant that the next year was not going to be pleasant either. A 20% drop in the company shares the very [...]

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Trying to find the balance between a healthy business and a happy home life is one of the biggest challenges business owners face. This is especially true in the fi rst few years of your business, when your time commitment is so great, and your business is still developing its own routines and rhythms.When you’restarting, [...]

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Dolly Watts is a wonder. At age 49, she went to university; at 57, she started
a catering business; at 60, she opened a restaurant. And at 69, she won the
Gold Medal in an Iron Chef competition in Vancouver.
Dolly owns and operates Liliget Feast House in Vancouver, a restaurant that celebrates the aboriginal food of her [...]

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Back in 2008, private investments in alternative energy literally withered due to the crash of the oil price and the freeze on the credit market. It was due to government subsidies that these projects kept on trudging over those difficult times, and now, other sources of alternative energy are receiving more funding as well.

Biomass, Geothermal, [...]

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Over the past couple of years, the productivity rate of U.S. businesses, with the notable exception of those related to farms, have been on the rise. Recent research points to a significant factor behind this recent rise in productivity, which surprisingly enough, are job cuts.
How the businesses produce more with fewer workers, one may ask. [...]

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