Weekly CEO News from Richard Ingram
September 2014

My favorite Derek Jeter story comes from a time that, I fear, no one will understand in a few years. Maybe no one understands now. It comes from a time of newspapers and early columns and running columns and crushing

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Google sometimes receives as many as 50,000 resumes in a single week. For the select number of applicants who actually make it to an interview, they’ll be graded on a very specific list of criteria, no matter what position they’re

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(Reuters) – U.S. fund managers are finding a lot to like about finger-painting and naptime. Fund ownership of Bright Horizons Family Solutions Inc, the only publicly traded daycare company in the United States, swelled 21 percent in the most recently

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WASHINGTON — Housing starts and permits fell in August, but upward revisions to the prior month’s data suggested the housing market continued to gradually improve. Groundbreaking declined 14.4 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual 956,000-unit pace, the Commerce Department said

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Back-to-school season is in full swing, and students everywhere have traded in their carefree summer days for homework, tests and grades. While formal report cards may still be a few months away for these schoolchildren, performance evaluations never stop in

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Scotland has plenty to sort out as its people vote on their future: about currency, the European Union, oil revenue and tax. Now there may be a different thorny problem — from the world of technology. The country decides on

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A first-look at Apple’s latest devices proves once again the company’s attention to detail. But questions remain. On Tuesday, Apple unveiled a new bigger iPhone and the smartwatch aficionados have been waiting for. Fortune had 30 minutes to try them both out. What we

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With the combination of high rates of affordability and rapidly rising rents, parents with kids just starting out in college may want to consider purchasing a property for the remainder of their 4-year stay rather than paying rent. Zillow data shows that

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What is Income Investing? As an investment advisor, I am a big proponent of income investing. Many people shudder when they hear the words until I explain to them that it’s not as complex and intimidating as it sounds. Income

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The cost of your education isn’t just evident in your student loan debt. No, in fact, there is an ulterior cost lurking in the mix: the possibility of being ineligible for a mortgage. If you have a deferred student loan,

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