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Glamorous Celebrity Deaths and Minimal Taxes in 2010 :: Women on.

Women on Business

These estates were set to owe no taxes because tax law passed by the Bush Administration in 2001 and 2003 gradually increased the estate tax exemption over ten years while lowering the estate tax rate, and allowed for the estate tax to disappear completely in 2010. billion estate.

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Why We Shouldn’t Worry About the Declining Number of Public Companies

Harvard Business Review

firms gravitate towards digital strategies, firms have less need for elaborate finance, marketing, production, distribution, accounting, and human resource departments. Chief finance officers increasingly question the ability of a day trader to value a digital company. retains its leadership in technological progress.

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Where There’s No Margin for Toxic Leadership

Harvard Business Review

Plenty of large companies have dysfunctional executives, as many Fortune 500 human resource consultants can tell you. Back in 2001, it was growing rapidly. The CEO thought he needed to step out of the chief sales role to focus on operations and finances. To be sure, this is not just a problem for midsized firms.

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Finding jobs for people with disabilities

HR Digest

states across 80 categories, including architecture, finance, human resources, IT, social services, retail, sales, writing, and more. The website was launched in 2001 and one of the pioneers in such specialized listings. You can create your own login and even opt for messages for new listings. AbilityLinks .

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Hiring and Managing in Turbulent Times

Harvard Business Review

The second World War had left business slow and finances strained. Then came the September 11, 2001, attacks, followed by fully-fledged economic crises in the U.S. The late 1940s were a tough time for the fledgling electronic equipment maker that would eventually become one of the America’s best-known technology companies.

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A Couple Reasons to Smile About

Women on Business

The Bush cuts also gradually raised the estate exemption and lowered the estate tax from 2001 until 2010, when the estate tax disappeared for that year only. Barring any Congressional action to change this law, taxes were set to revert back to their pre-2001 rates on January 1, 2011.

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All Hail the Generalist

Harvard Business Review

In the six decades since Berlin's essay was published, hedgehogs have come to dominate academia, medicine, finance, law, and many other professional domains. A collection of specialists creates a less flexible labor force, one that requires "retraining" with technological developments creating constantly shifting human resource needs.

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