Tag: business
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December 06, 2006 09:20 AM EST --
Both ambition and achievement now rise and fall with unprecedented speed. This new condition grows out of a sea change in our technological context, a kind of seismic wave that sweeps over the world every . . .
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October 25, 2006 02:05 PM EDT --
This year's graduating seniors at Northwestern University heard three great leadership lessons from their commencement speaker, Illinois Senator Barack Obama. The lessons came from his own extraordinary . . .
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June 20, 2007 11:48 PM EDT --
Governments have been on a prolonged orgy of deregulation and privatization of services that had previously been delivered under strict controls or public ownership.
The perfect example of this is the . . .
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December 21, 2006 10:57 AM EST --
Those who refuse to accept the scientific consensus on global warming often come to their position because they want to "protect business." They worry that measures taken to curb greenhouse . . .
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October 30, 2006 10:07 AM EST --
When Barack Obama graduated from Columbia University in 1983, he could have done anything he wanted. His mother and grandparents advised him to go to law school. His friends were landing jobs on Wall Street . . .
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October 07, 2006 05:21 PM EDT --
Question: The stock market reached record highs this week. Have you benefited?
Results:
Yes -- 29%
No -- 71%
Go to the Gather Home Page at www.gather.com to vote on today's poll, and join or subscribe . . .
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March 17, 2008 11:57 AM EDT --
We all know that we are in the middle of a sub prime home mortgage crisis that has developed into a general credit crisis that has generated the loss of trillions of dollars in the stock markets . . .
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April 11, 2007 12:50 PM EDT --
Margaret Mead said "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, devoted citizens can change the world; indeed it is the only thing that has.”
Here is the course these citizens have . . .
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March 18, 2008 06:44 PM EDT --
Many experts say we are in the midst of the biggest housing bubble ever and are worried that the ensuing banking and credit crisis could spread like a virus. . . .
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September 26, 2006 02:41 PM EDT --
Among the Liberal Arts disciplines, there's a persistent distrust (or is it intimidation?) of the business community. Certainly, this is in many ways well-founded--for example, aggressive technology-transfer . . .
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October 10, 2006 10:37 PM EDT --
Google announced on Monday its decision to acquire YouTube for $1.65 billion in stock ("Google's young partner"). YouTube, founded only 19 months ago, has gained enormous popularity . . .
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December 08, 2006 04:09 PM EST --
This is the first in a series of articles about the riots in 1968 Baltimore and Gov. Spiro T. Agnew's response.
Around 5 p.m. on Saturday, April 6, 1968, a black teenager tossed a brick through . . .
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December 08, 2006 06:30 PM EST --
It is amazing to me, how so many academics have internalized an outdated, limited view of the career paths available to those with a liberal arts education. In particular, I hear a consistent drone of . . .
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December 01, 2007 03:47 AM EST --
In a representative form of government, the election of a person to a high office is to the purpose of serving the people and the greater public good. Public election is a sacred privilege, honor . . .
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January 28, 2008 08:06 PM EST --
MSN has four interesting articles on the job market in the US. I have posted links to the articles below. The first link is to an article that lists the 25 . . .
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March 16, 2008 03:18 PM EDT --
Earlier this week, in an article entitled "The Perfect Storm", I noted how a confluence of factors could portend serious consequences for the American Economy. I focused primarily on the tumbling . . .
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November 02, 2006 11:36 PM EST --
Earlier this week, I spoke with the Director of a local R&D lab.
Our conversation turned to the topic of the shortage of US graduates in science and engineering--particularly the derth of Americans . . .
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December 02, 2007 02:58 PM EST --
There is a great deal of discussion today about the goal of ending global poverty. It is estimated that 2.5 billion of the world’s population of 6.5 billion, almost 40%, try . . .
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October 04, 2006 02:03 PM EDT --
Why No Push To Remove Bush?
Lately, we see more and more cracks in the moralistic, patriotic façade of the policy makers. We also see people in the media one by one start to realize . . .
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December 29, 2006 01:46 PM EST --
As mentioned over at The Kept up Academic Librarian and The Universities Weblog, Yale University has responded to (entirely justified) criticism from the business community, and scholars, that MBA programs . . .
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