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Do I Really Want to Work for This Company?
By Alexandra Harkavy
Our executive at liberty offers up a diary of her interviewing experiences. While all names have been changed to protect the guilty, some of these companies may seem eerily familiar.
Cuba: Is American Business Missing Out?
By Marc A. Olshan and Ana Julia Jatar
Yes. No. Maybe? Two experts present the pros and cons of lifting the embargo on the island that has been called the future Taiwan of the Caribbean.
Is the Price Right?
By Peter Meyer
Pricing in new markets is more than a simple equation of cost plus overhead plus profit. Used correctly, a pricing strategy can lead to market dominance.
Scale Matters. Or Does It?
By Donald V. Potter
Conventional wisdom suggests that the largest company in an industry is in the most enviable position. But sometimes conventional wisdom isn't as wise as it seems.
Photo Essay: The New Workplace
By Sean Monkman
We've all adjusted to ergonomic office furniture, casual clothing, and flextime. But we don't hear nearly as much about the people whose workspaces include polyurethane pyramids, 100-million-degree plasma, or underground particle colliders.

Openers
By A.J. Vogl
Competing With the Best.
Fast Forward
By Randall Poe and Carol Lee Courter
The spectacular failures of incoming CEOs; why this is your father's Internet; how an influx of immigrants has kept Western Europe running; and more.
Up the Organization
By Marilyn Moats Kennedy
Think management is something that your employees aspire to? Think again.
Adventures in Cyberspace
By E.J. Heresniak
Saying you're a dotcom doesn't make it so.
Dispatches From the Front
By John Guaspari
"How did we do?" is the wrong question to ask customers. So what's the right one?
Reviews
By Edgar R. Fiedler
Robert J. Shiller predicts the downturn of the new economy with a fair degree of prescience.
Reviews
By Michael Schrage
Four new books on the theory of management can be found in the business-books section under "navel-gazing."
Manager's Tool Kit
By Kelley L. Allen
Where to find the best employees on the Web; how to make business travel kid-friendly; which cities won't decimate you with taxes; and more.
Sightings
By Christy Eidson
Havana Revisited.

Soundings

The Management Dance
By Sarah Heyward
Jump to It
By Kelley L. Allen
Funky Inc.
By Kjell A. Nordström and Jonas Ridderstråle
The Facts of Life
By James A. Finkelstein
Compensation Satisfaction
By A.J. Vogl
And more, from Thomas A. Canning and John MacIntyre.