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The Plus of Partnerships

American culture reveres the charismatic CEO or solo entrepreneur, but some businesses take a different path: partners working together. Here are the stories of six partnerships that work—and the secrets of their success.

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The Top 10 Lessons to Learn From Failure

In order to succeed, you need to know how to fail. The following 10 lessons may have resulted from missteps, but they led to firmer footing.

10 Questions For Your Compensation Consultant

Combine public outrage at Wall Street pay and new Dodd-Frank regulations, and a compensation consultant is more important than ever. Here’s what to ask the payday experts.

10 Questions For Your Web Scrubber

Your company could be one scathing blog post away from a public relations nightmare. Here’s what to ask the experts who tidy up your online reputation.

Q and A: Max Drucker

Do you know what your employees are doing on Facebook? Should you?

Lessons From the Fall

By Elizabeth Harris

Two years in the making, the report of the government’s Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission—officially known as the Financial Crisis Inquiry Report: Final Report of the National Commission on the Causes of the Financial and Economic Crisis in the United States—is 631 fact-filled, surprisingly well-written pages long. You should read it, but let’s be honest—you probably won’t. Besides— we read it so you don’t have to.

Following are the report’s conclusions about the causes of the financial crisis, and they are worth reading—unless, of course, you want it to happen again.

10 Top Hotel Gyms for the Business Traveler

How do you keep in fighting trim when you’re traveling on business? By staying in hotels with gyms you would want to work out in even if they weren’t just 20 floors beneath you. Herewith, the 10 best hotel gyms in the country (in alphabetical order, because, trust us, one through 10 are too close to call).