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Business. Management. What do bosses do all day? The shocking truth can at last be revealed. THANKS to closed doors and fierce gatekeepers, bosses are tricky to observe in their natural habitat. ...

商业 管理 老板整天在干嘛? 惊人真相终将披露 多亏了紧闭的房门和尽忠职守的把关者，老板们得以狡猾地呆在自己的窝里观察一切。然而，了解他们每天做什么，这些行为又对股东是否有利，也许是不无益处的。哈佛商业学院新披露的一份文件...

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United States. Small-town corruption. Business paradise or den of thieves? An effort to abolish a highly unusual Californian city. EVEN Vernon’s logo proclaims that the city is “exclusively indus...

美国 小镇腐败 商业天堂还是贼窝? 消除一座特别另类之加州城市的努力 即便弗农市的标志上宣称本市“专事工业”，这种说法也并未言过其实。1905年，该市创建于洛杉矶河沿岸的一处铁路线交汇处，人们将此地作为某种商业(尤其是又脏...

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United States. Preschool funding. Toddle to the top. Cash-strapped states cut funding for nurseries. LILY, who is three-and-a-half, loves her nursery school in Queens. Her mother calls her “the s...

美国 学前教育经费 走到了头 资金短缺的州政府削减了对托儿所的经费 莉莉，一个三岁半的小女孩，爱她的位于纽约皇后区的托儿所。她妈妈 叫她“海绵宝宝”，因为每天她都带着一些新的知识回家。但并不是每个小孩都像莉莉那么幸运。一份美国国...

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Cloud computing's growing pains. Break-ins and breakdowns. The lessons from Sony's big security lapse and Amazon's cloud-computing outage. IT COULD turn out to be the biggest breach of data priva...

云计算的发轫之困 侵入和故障 从索尼的巨大安全漏洞和亚马逊的云计算中断中汲取的教训 这可能是互联网出现以来最大一宗违反数据保密的事件了。本周，索尼承认，黑客们盗走其在线游戏和娱乐网络中超过7700万用户的个人信息——很可能...

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Business. Schumpeter. I, robot-manager. Management thinkers need to ponder more about homo-robo relations. ROBOTS have been the stuff of science fiction for so long that it is surprisingly hard t...

商业 熊彼特 人与机器人的管理 管理思想家需要考虑更多关于人与机器人的关系 机器人已经被认为是科幻的东西太久了以至于把他们看作管理事实的东西惊人地难。一为捷克剧作家Karel Capek在1920年给他们取了名字(来自...

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The effects of America's worst property crash go very wide. TO THE many dubious distinctions of Las Vegas, add one more: foreclosure capital of America. According to RealtyTrac, a property-listings...

房地产崩盘连锁效应，情况还能更坏? 拉斯维加斯的诸多不安因素又添了一个：取消住宅赎回权的资本。根据房地产上市公司RealtyTrac，去年城中每十座住宅就有一所被取消赎回权，几乎是全国平均水平的五倍。在北拉斯维加斯相对贫穷的郊区，这个...

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Business. Mobile telecoms in America. An audacious merger with a poor reception. AT&T’s ambitious bid to reshape America’s wireless market has spooked rivals. But it faces significant hurdles. PE...

商业 美国移动通讯业 联姻大胆，反响不佳 AT&T的竞标雄心勃勃，意在重塑美国无线通讯市场，竞争对手惊慌失措。但并购也面临重大阻碍 在美国，AT&T移动电话网络质量不稳常遭人取笑，那些以此为乐的人，本周有了新鲜笑料。3月2...

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Business. Online media distribution. Raging bulls. Music and television firms fret about their distributors’ new business models. RELATIONS between the companies that create media products and th...

商业 网络媒体分销 愤怒的“公牛” 媒体产品制造商与分销商一向不睦，双方围绕媒体内容售价，常年争执不休，而随着数字分发改变媒体格局，吵得更是不亦乐乎。媒体巨头就像老拳击手，一把年纪了还要两次爬进拳击场，与高科技公司一决雌雄，后者貌似正...