Building your brand (and keeping your job)

Scott Monty's personal brand doesn't take a back seat to anyone else's -- not even that of Ford Motor Co., his employer. "I'm not somebody who can be accused of using Ford's brand to benefit my own," says Monty, the car giant's first global digital and multimedia communications manager. "If anything, the opposite is true."

Bandwidth Music - Technology Conference Announces Additional Digital and Music Industry Speakers

The Bandwidth Conference explores the ever-evolving music experience with a focus on the industry and how people discover, purchase, and interact with music. Speakers from mSpot, Warner Bros. Records, Gracenote, Rovi, UMGD, Twitter, Cisco Media Solutions Group and others to take part.

Alchemist Management to Transform Mixed Martial Arts Management

Three-time Grammy Award-winner MC Hammer has launched Alchemist Management , a management, promotion, marketing and brand-building firm for MMA fighters. Â Hammer serves as the new company's CEO and has named Lex McMahon as President and Nima Safapour as Vice President of Business Affairs and General Counsel. Â Alchemist Management is based in Los Angeles.

B-Schools All A-Twitter Over Social Media

Harvard Business School (Harvard Full-Time MBA Profile) and Columbia University's Graduate School of Business (Columbia Full-Time MBA Profile) have joined a growing list of business schools that are adding courses on social media to their MBA curricula, addressing the corporate demand for social-network-savvy employees. The two schools are among at least six that have added courses in the past ...

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