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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?

The Ultimate Partnership

By Richard Bradley

Entrepreneurs Sara Blakely and Jesse Itzler discuss how to combine work, wealth and family.

Metrics: Facebook

By Raymund Flandez

Despite growing concerns over privacy, Facebook has surged to some 500 million members. With an IPO expected before long, the company is poised to cash in on that popularity. But what's Facebook really worth? Worth crunches the numbers.

10 Questions For Your Social Media Consultant

From Twitter to Foursquare, social media is the hottest sector in marketing—and often the trickiest. Ask these questions to make sure you get it right.

Q&A: Dave Stewart

You may remember him as the quiet half of the rock band Eurythmics, but Dave Stewart has a knack—and a message—for business.

With his tattooed wrists, omnipresent sunglasses and skull-and-bones jewelry, 57-year-old Dave Stewart still looks like the rock star he once was. What he doesn’t look like: a businessman who, since Eurythmics broke up 20 years ago, started his own record label, Anxious Records; founded a production company, Weapons of Mass Entertainment; and served as a consultant to companies such as Nokia and Visa. Now, with collaborator Mark Simmons, Stewart has written The Business Playground: Where Creativity and Commerce Collide (Prentice Hall), due out in July.