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Is Yahoo's billion-dollar bet on synergy worth it?
When Google went public in 2004 for $85 a share, I wrote a column questioning such a high valuation for a company built on a math equation. Wasn't it inevitable that someone would come along with a better search algorithm? Google closed Monday at $908....
Tags: Advertising, Google Inc., Marketing, Social Media, Computing and Information Technology Industry
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Getting past the clouds of doubt and seizing joy
Today we debut Balancing Act, a weekly column from the Tribune's Heidi Stevens that will explore the challenges — big, small, tragic, comic or all of the above — of juggling life and work in a not-always obliging world. An overwhelming...
Tags: Physical Fitness and Exercise
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Work crept into her life, until life disappeared
Erin Callan was the face of Lehman Brothers in 2008 as it battled insolvency rumors. Fresh, pretty, smart and confidently articulate, she worked feverishly to try to talk nervous investors out of jumping ship. But when the company imploded in 2008,...Tags: Google Inc., Bankruptcy, New York City, The New York Times, Media Industry
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Sheryl Sandberg's well-meaning condescension
To get somewhere in this circular debate over women and work, we need to get three women in the same room: Anne-Marie Slaughter, Marissa Mayer and Sheryl Sandberg. Slaughter quit her high-ranking job at the State Department to return to academia at...Tags: Corporate Officers, Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Facebook, Companies and Corporations
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I (heart) introverts
It's not just a women's issue. Granted, that's how many of us are framing last month's decision by Marissa Mayer, CEO of Yahoo! Inc., to end telecommuting and require all employees to report to the office. It ignited a firestorm of controversy over...
Tags: Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Al Gore, Schindler's List (movie), Michael Bloomberg
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Alone time works best for this introvert
It's not just a women's issue. Granted, that's how many of us are framing last month's decision by Marissa Mayer, CEO of Yahoo Inc., to end telecommuting and require all employees to report to the office. It ignited a firestorm of controversy over...
Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Google Inc., Entertainment Events, Al Gore, Periodicals
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Yahoo Chief Believes Cubicles and Creativity Go Together. Wrong!
The Hartford CourantMarissa Mayer, the new chief yahoo at Yahoo, recently decreed that employees could no longer work from home. The rationale behind the unpopular edict is the notion that crowding people together in boxes will lead to more thinking outside the box....Tags: Career and Workplace, Employees, Erectile Dysfunction
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When working from home, the office can always find you
Rita VanderWaal lives outside Chicago. Her boss works out of company headquarters in Troy, Mich. Her office is ostensibly in suburban West Dundee. But she usually works from home — unless she's on the road, as she was Tuesday. "My boss is quite...
Tags: Kelly Services Incorporated, Woody Allen, Career and Workplace, Starbucks Corp., Employment
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Brotman: Decades later, moms' balancing act is as tough as ever
Twenty years ago, when I was deep into my working mother juggling act, I would curse my generation's timing. For the women who come after us, I thought, it would surely be easier. Corporate America would no doubt stop being shocked — shocked!...
Tags: Homes, Hearing Impairment, New Products
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Judge Marissa Mayer by her job, not her gender
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is abolishing the company's work-at-home policy and ordering everyone to show up at the office. Her decision has sparked intense and often nasty debate, with Mayer usually landing on the losing end. Many women, in particular,...
Tags: PBS (tv network), Feminism, AOL LLC, The New York Times, Minority Groups
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Rosenthal: The road to workplace equality
Even before she was the only female in her high school physics class, Ilene Gordon understood the idea that changing momentum requires force. She has sought to be part of that force. At 59, Gordon can boast two grown children, a 34-year marriage and...
Tags: Greg Biffle, Auto Racing, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, OWN (tv network), Civil Rights
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Bay Bridge light display dazzles San Francisco
L.A. NOWThousands of people crowded the waterfront and tuned in online to watch Tuesday's formal debut of "The Bay Lights," the massive 25,000-light display on the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. The 1.8-mile long, 500-foot-tall piece — billed the "world'...
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