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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?

Worth Talks to Michael Lewis

The author discusses his new book on the global credit crisis, what’s wrong with Wall Street and why he sometimes feels like a Martian.

The Huffington Post/AOL Merger

Arianna Huffington has worn many hats over the years: Greek emigrant, president of the Cambridge Union Society, author, socialite, conservative, liberal, blogger and now media mogul. AOL has also taken many guises, evolving from a computer game company to an Internet service provider to half of a media conglomerate and back to an Internet service provider. Now, after AOL’s $315 million acquisition of The Huffington Post last February, Huffington and AOL are hoping to fulfill what each other desperately wants—profits and plausibility for AOL, success and influence for Huffington. But can Huffington really run a news division? And can AOL really build its business on a blog? Here’s how the unlikely merger came to fruition—and where it might be headed.