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Vioxx Effects Still Linger For Merck

Vioxx risks were evident a few years before Merck pulled the drug from the market, a new study finds.  ... Read Blog

SBA Runs Out of Gas

Stimulus money is gone for breaks that made SBA loans more attractive for borrowers and lenders. ... Read Blog

MSNBC.com "Knows a Trend When It Sees One"

MSNBC.com will manage #BreakingNews for Twitter. ... Read Blog

Smoking Lingerie Leads to Lawsuit

This isn’t the kind of hot Victoria’s Secret aims for. The company wants its shippers to pay up for a fire that allegedly damaged lingerie en route from Jakarta to the U.S. ... Read Blog

AOL, Period

AOL launches a new logo; "So random," says Steven Heller, former art director for the New York Times and SVA Designer as Author MFA department co-chair. ... Read Blog

Health Care Deals on Steroids

A deal boom could be on the horizon as private equity firms get ready to unload $500 billion in health care assets. ... Read Column

Why Do Fools Fall in Love?

Airline mergers, like that of British Airways and Iberia, are certainly enticing. But bigger isn't provably better and promised cost savings rarely add up. ... Read Column

How Wall Street Pay
Rocked the World

As the shock of the financial crisis and the recession sinks in, new ideas about risk are taking hold. In the first installment of a new series, Portfolio.com examines why a more disciplined approach to compensation goes hand in ... Read Column

The Everyperson Approach to Business

Guest Commentary: More Americans today say an employee’s sexual orientation shouldn’t have any bearing on how they’re judged at the workplace. That’s a statistic that executives and business leaders should pay attention to. ... Read Column

Real Business, Real Results

The Financial Services Committee chair follows through on a pledge to rewrite the banking rules.

Health care bankers win big as risk returns to Wall Street. But that may be just the tip of the iceberg.

Madoff forces business schools to face ethics' dark side: teaching students how to commit fraud.

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Follow the Leader

How social media and blogging changed executives from international men of mystery to the suits who friended you. Read More