In This Issue
Features
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Producing Success
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The 40 Best Franchises for African Americans
Black Enterprise provides you entrepreneurial options that promise growth in any business environment
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Who You Gonna Call?
Seven financial “friends” everyone should have on speed dial
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Mixing the right ingredients for growth
CEO Tilmon Brown’s turnaround plan transformed New Horizons into a lean, mean baking machine
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Life After Death
Jannis Briggs Milhouse must adjust her financial outlook after losing her spouse
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Cleaning Up At Whirlpool
How Michael A. Todman applies innovative tactics and powerful communication skills to achieve the home appliance giant’s goal: global dominance
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7 Books That Will Enrich Your Life
B.E. editors share their favorite financial, business, and career reads
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Leading a Thrifty Lifestyle
Departments
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Moneywise
Get Paid!
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Moneywise
Different Strokes
Mark Watson of Chicago’s Keel Asset Management L.L.C selects inexpensive stocks that set him apart from the Wall Street pack
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Moneywise
The Meaning of Life Insurance
Which kind of insurance coverage is right for you—whole-life or term? B.E. explains
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Shopsmart
Should You Get Your Degree in Three Years?
The tight economy has some schools offering a short-cut to a bachelor’s degree
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Shopsmart
Recycling 202
How to take your recycling practices to the next level
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Enterprise
Avoiding Fatal Missteps
Dartmouth College program helps educate minority entrepreneurs
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Enterprise
Accelerated Advancement
Construction contractor parlays relationship into financial success
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Techwatch
Getting Rid of Global Glitches
Choosing software for trade compliance
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Techwatch
Speaking in Tongues
Rosetta Stone’s TOTALe adds ‘social’ to language learning
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workplace
Maximizing Employee Value
Wal-Mart executive leverages human capital for profits
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workplace
Boosting Profits
An international CFO shares the benefits of zero-based budgeting
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workplace
New Opportunities in Finance
Recovery means Americans must rebuild and need financial advice to do so
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DiversityWatch
Unemployment Still ‘Uneven’
Report finds that African Americans more likely among the jobless despite education
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DiversityWatch
Learning How to LEAD
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Motivation
The Dos and Don’ts of Delegating
Handing tasks over to others lets you accomplish more by doing less
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Lifestyle
In the Raw
Karyn Calabrese brings healthy dining to a new sophisticated level
Columns
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Backtalk
Backtalk with Ray Nagin
Five years after Katrina, the former New Orleans mayor weighs in on the recovery and the impact of the BP oil spill
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Publisher's Page
Celebrated or Not, Mediocrity Won’t Cut It
Straight talk from Earl G. Graves, the visionary founder and publisher of Black Enterprise
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Executive Memo
Get a GPS for Your Life
Principles of success from Black Enterprise CEO Earl "Butch" Graves Jr.
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About This Issue
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