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Money Magazine: Why it can hurt so much to sell

Let's say you bought two stocks last year. One has tanked and looks likely to fall further. One has gone up and you expect it to keep rising. (Hey, it's not completely impossible.) Which are you more apt to sell?

The corporate university

It would be news enough in itself -- the departure of one of business education's brightest young stars to the private sector -- but Joel Podolny's announcement that he is to stand down as dean of the Yale School of Management carries a wider impact.

Anger in the office -- it hurts women more

Ten years later, Marlene Chism still gets upset when she thinks about the time she lost her temper in front of the higher-ups. Every time she tried to talk during a meeting at the manufacturing plant where she worked, she says, the male human resources manager discounted her idea.

Fortune: The liberating effect of failure

Jeffrey Sonnenfeld knows failure. A professor at the Yale School of Management and founder of the non-profit Chief Executive Leadership Institute, Sonnenfeld has risen to leadership-guru status by becoming the expert on how CEOs stumble and bounce back. He first explored failure 20 years ago in his book "The Hero's Farewell: What Happens When CEOs Retire." Sonnenfeld's latest, "Firing Back: How Great Leaders Rebound After Career Disasters," hits the topic head on. Fortune editor at large Patricia Sellers talked with Sonnenfeld about what he has learned studying failure. An edited version of their conversation:

Fortune: The trouble with MBAs

When Jack Welch gave a guest lecture at MIT's Sloan School of Management in 2005, someone in the crowd asked, "What should we be learning in business school?" Welch's reply: "Just concentrate on ne...

The vexed issue of MBA league tables

Another new survey of business schools, this time exclusively in the U.S., has confirmed one increasingly evident fact for those considering an MBA -- there is a clear elite in the field.

Learning from overseas travel

For many business school students in the United States, early January would usually see them enjoy some time off to visit friends and family, or perhaps take a holiday. Not any more.

Rapid rise beckons mobile workers

Rapid career advancement is a key driver for students enrolling in an MBA or EMBA degree, yet the same thing can cause trepidation for existing employers.

Fortune: BETTING AGAINST THE HOUSE

AS ANY LONDONER WITH A LICK OF sense will tell you, house prices in the British capital--up 200% over the past decade--are overdue for a correction. And thanks to the miracle of modern derivatives ...

Fortune: WHERE NOT TO FLAUNT YOUR MBA

HAVE AN MBA OR A Ph.D.? If so, don't mention it on your business card or e-mail signature --at least that's the consensus among the many hundreds of you who wrote to take issue with the expert I qu...

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