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...Facebook set may not like it, but courts are mostly giving the O.K. to corporate spying. "I haven't seen one case where an employee has won on a right-of-privacy claim," says Anthony Oncidi, head of the labor and employment department at law firm Proskauer Rose. Companies can ward off privacy claims if they have informed staff members they're being monitored, even if only in a single sentence in a rarely read handbook. Even when there is no advance notice, workplace-privacy claims have proved hard to win. Only two states (Connecticut and Delaware) require bosses...
...need to get more aggressive. To win customers in the U.S., Esprit has to spend more on splashy marketing to create new buzz around the brand, they say. "Word of mouth takes a long time to spread," says Marshal Cohen, a retail analyst at market-research firm NPD Group. "They've got to do more than open doors. This isn't the Field of Dreams." Meanwhile, analysts complain, the brand still fails to resonate, especially with younger consumers who don't remember Esprit. Says retail analyst Emanuel Weintraub: "For young people, Esprit might as well be their father's Oldsmobile...
...executives--for thousands of stocks into elaborate computer programs that then say to buy certain stocks and sell others. Which the quants do, unflinchingly. "The emotional element is one that we want to remove from our decision-making process," says Zili Zhang, who runs quant research at mutual-fund firm American Century...
...hard to spot quant funds by name alone. You may have to call the fund company or dig through prospectuses. Morningstar, a firm that rates investments, recommends Vanguard U.S. Value, Bridgeway Large-Cap Growth and Janus Adviser Intech Risk-Managed Growth...
...fact, some of us in venture capital are already seeing "green tech" as a growth area. We're backing breakthroughs in energy generation, storage, conservation, transportation and distribution. Clear carbon-emission limits are generating even more demand, and entrepreneurs are rushing to meet it. Just this year my firm has received hundreds of proposals for innovation and opportunities that are breathtaking-- and breath saving. American innovation can end our oil addiction the same way Brazilians kicked their oil habit using ethanol grown from sugarcane...