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Oscar nominations 2014: The complete list Best picture “12 Years a Slave” “American Hustle” “Captain Phillips” “Dallas Buyers Club” “Gravity” “Her” “Nebraska” “Philomena” “The Wolf of Wall Street” Director Alfonso Cuarón, “Gravity” Steve McQueen, “12 Years a Slave” Alexander Payne, “Nebraska” David O. Russell, “American Hustle” Martin Scorsese, “The Wolf of Wall Street” Lead actor […]

It’s a new year, time to start a gratitude journal and hit the gym, yes, but also time to ensure you get lounge access, free miles and the best possible outcome should your flight be canceled. In 2013 travelers bemoaned being barred from planes, stranded in faraway cities and confused about what’s allowed on board. […]

A virtual office explained in less than a minute. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hPcs4GfXiY

Hard to believe people actually make this hike on a regular basis. http://www.viralnova.com/dangerous-trail-huashan/

This interview with Eileen Martinson, chief executive of Sparta Systems, a maker of quality-management software, was conducted and condensed by Adam Bryant Q. When you were a child, were you in leadership roles or doing entrepreneurial things? A. Yes. I was babysitting from the time I was 9 or 10. I had the whole neighborhood. And when I was in high […]

By ADAM BRYANTJAN. 4, 2014 “We aspire to be the largest small company in our space.” When Dominic Orr, the chief executive of Aruba Networks, said those words, he crystallized a goal I had heard many leaders express during the hundreds of interviews I’ve conducted for the Corner Office column: they want to foster a quick and […]

If City Hall wants to bring down the Big Apple’s 8.5 percent unemployment rate, it’s going to have to convince small-business owners like Alan Bain the new jobs he wants to create won’t cost him money. Bain owns World-Wide Business Centres in Midtown and would like to hire two full-time employees — an entry-level worker […]

By JOHN DRAMANI MAHAMA ACCRA, Ghana — FOR years, it seemed as though only onephotograph of Nelson Mandela existed. It showed him with bushy hair, plump cheeks, and a look of serious determination. But it was a black-and-white shot, so grainy it looked ancient — a visual documentation of an era and an individual whose time had […]

This interview with Bob Pittman, chairman and chief executive of Clear Channel Communications, was conducted and condensed byAdam Bryant. Q. Were you in leadership roles when you were younger?  A. I started as a radio disc jockey at age 15. I needed a job to pay for flying lessons. That was my passion. I tried to get […]