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Is Miss Nebraska an Entrepreneur?
Twitter It!By: Vivek Wadhwa/Business Week
Sue Drakeford’s production company hosts its own pageants and teaches others to gain the confidence and skills to compete
By Vivek Wadhwa
When Sue Drakeford became the first African-American to represent Nebraska at the Miss USA Pageant in 2001, she saw a great business opportunity. She would start a production company that [...]
How to Give a Lousy Presentation
Twitter It!By: Business Week/ Carmine Gallo
Fifteen ways to make a bad impression
By Carmine Gallo
Giving truly great presentations requires skill, work, and practice. Giving catastrophic presentations is far easier. So if you want to take the easy way out and look like a rank amateur, here are 15 surefire tips to guarantee that you leave [...]
Starbucks: Howard Schultz vs. Howard Schultz
Twitter It!By: Business Week/ Susan Berfield
You can get a sense of what’s important to someone by the stories he tells. At Starbucks (SBUX), a company diminished in ways both tangible and ineffable, Howard Schultz is telling a story about milk. Starbucks uses a lot of the stuff. As part of Schultz’s efforts to improve [...]