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Send us your questions on challenges you face in your business. Journalist Karen E. Klein will interview experts and distill their insights into answers.
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Small Employers Are Clueless About Obamacare
A majority of business owners don't grasp the basics of the law, a new survey suggests -
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For Obamacare to Work, Small Employers Must Embrace Exchanges
High costs keep many small businesses from offering workers health coverage. Exchanges being set up this year could cut prices—if enough people participate -
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Obamacare Offers Low-Wage Workers Coverage. Will They Buy It?
ADP data show how low-wage employees skip coverage as premiums eat up a greater share of their income -
Profiles
Will Wal-Mart Sell Your Small Business Health Insurance?
The world's largest retailer is evaluating whether to start a marketplace to sell health insurance to small employers -
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John Sculley: Seeing Steve Jobs Everywhere
The ex-Apple CEO mentors health-care entrepreneurs -
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Speeding Up the Discovery of Drugs
Scott Johnson, an entrepreneur with multiple sclerosis, pushes a new research model -
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Pitaya: The Selling of a Superfruit
Is the obscure pitaya the next pomegranate or goji berry? One ambitious juicer is betting big on it -
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Adjusting to Obamacare
HR pros size up the cost of the Affordable Care Act -
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Regulators Eye a Maneuver Meant to Cut Health-Care Costs
Federal agencies are seeking information on a practice that some fear could undermine health reform -
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Yoga Gets Off the Mat to Fight New York's Tax Man
New York City insists yoga studios are fitness centers, and thus subject to a 4.5 percent sales tax -
Sales & Marketing
Help Remedies's Hip Pharma
With hip packaging, absurd videos, and youth targeting, pharmaceutical startup Help Remedies is raising its profile as it puts fun in your medicine cabinet -
Health Care
Therapick: Online Profiles of Therapists
The L.A. startup tapes profiles to help you find the therapist of your dreams -
Policy
Health Reform's Small Business Confusion
Companies find the health-care law leaves a lot of questions unanswered -
China
Kindstar's Lab Work in China Carries Challenges
The medical testing company finds it needs a logistics arm, too -
Technology
How to Drink Your Coffee: There's an App for That
A Penn State scientist has an app that keeps your caffeine level in the zone
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Policy
Explaining Obamacare's Baffling Tax Breaks for Small Business
Small employers have been slow to take the law's tax credit for offering health coverage. Accountants blame complicated rules -
Policy
Small Employers Are Clueless About Obamacare
A majority of business owners don't grasp the basics of the law, a new survey suggests -
Smart Answers
Cutting Health-Care Costs for Aging Employees
Employees who don't participate in a company plan are still counted in its rating pool. To reduce costs, offer an attractive retirement plan -
Policy
Obamacare's Small Business Exchanges Get Watered Down
In many states, plans to let small employers offer workers a menu of health plans have been put on hold for a year -
Benefits
For Obamacare to Work, Small Employers Must Embrace Exchanges
High costs keep many small businesses from offering workers health coverage. Exchanges being set up this year could cut prices—if enough people participate -
Policy
Obamacare Offers Low-Wage Workers Coverage. Will They Buy It?
ADP data show how low-wage employees skip coverage as premiums eat up a greater share of their income -
Profiles
Will Wal-Mart Sell Your Small Business Health Insurance?
The world's largest retailer is evaluating whether to start a marketplace to sell health insurance to small employers -
China
Kindstar's Lab Work in China Carries Challenges
The medical testing company finds it needs a logistics arm, too -
Profiles
Speeding Up the Discovery of Drugs
Scott Johnson, an entrepreneur with multiple sclerosis, pushes a new research model -
Policy
Yoga Gets Off the Mat to Fight New York's Tax Man
New York City insists yoga studios are fitness centers, and thus subject to a 4.5 percent sales tax -
Policy
Regulators Eye a Maneuver Meant to Cut Health-Care Costs
Federal agencies are seeking information on a practice that some fear could undermine health reform
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Policy
Small Employers Are Clueless About Obamacare
A majority of business owners don't grasp the basics of the law, a new survey suggests -
Policy
Obamacare's Small Business Exchanges Get Watered Down
In many states, plans to let small employers offer workers a menu of health plans have been put on hold for a year -
Profiles
Speeding Up the Discovery of Drugs
Scott Johnson, an entrepreneur with multiple sclerosis, pushes a new research model -
Smart Answers
Cutting Health-Care Costs for Aging Employees
Employees who don't participate in a company plan are still counted in its rating pool. To reduce costs, offer an attractive retirement plan -
Policy
Explaining Obamacare's Baffling Tax Breaks for Small Business
Small employers have been slow to take the law's tax credit for offering health coverage. Accountants blame complicated rules
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Policy
Small Employers Are Clueless About Obamacare
A majority of business owners don't grasp the basics of the law, a new survey suggests -
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For Obamacare to Work, Small Employers Must Embrace Exchanges
High costs keep many small businesses from offering workers health coverage. Exchanges being set up this year could cut prices—if enough people participate
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