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Biotech: Not Just for Geeks

How business students unleash scientific advancement

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Small Changes, Big Results

Can a simple Japanese philosophy transform the workplace?

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Cashing in on the ER

The hospital admissions racket

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The New Face of Number Crunching

The accounting profession is still suffering from old stereotypes: stagnant and boring number crunching. Mention the word “accountant” and people still picture a worker hunched over a desk, never...

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Skimming: It's Worse than You Think

In our digital age, “skimming” has become a growing problem. Skimmers are small devices, installed by criminals on ATM machines, self-serve gas pumps and other devices to steal information from credit,...

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Why Innovation is Stuck in Slow Motion

Business innovation has a problem. A recent working paper by Robert Gorden titled “Is US Economic Growth Over? Faltering Innovation Confronts the Six Headwinds” suggests that “innovation does not have...

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A Poor but Standard Model

With the business model of the credit rating agencies in the news again, we wonder if there will be more than partial repairs.Since U.S. Attorney Eric Holder filed suit against the market leader,...

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Trust, Respect, Communicate

There is an adage in the organizational behavior world that posits that employees don’t leave organizations; rather, they leave bad managers who create and perpetuate toxic work environments. Instead...

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The Ethics of User Experience

New technologies have always produced unintended consequences. But user experience (UX) designers and engineers face a number of new ethical challenges today with the rise of technology and our...

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Micro-finance: Lessons from the Field 1

Mohammed Yunis came up with a good idea: Give small loans to people who don’t have access to capital. A high percentage of the world’s population lives at a subsistence level. They spend all they make...

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Big Hackers Target Small Business

The news is full of stories about the hacking into large companies: Burger King, Jeep, The New York Times, and even supposedly adept tech companies such as Apple, Twitter, Facebook, and Microsoft....

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Detroit’s Downfall

How does a city that once thrived declare an $18 billion bankruptcy and leave a community stunned?

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Survival of the Fittest

Detroit’s bankruptcy is still making headlines, but many U.S. cities face similar issues. How have others survived?

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R&D Stimulus

Revisions in the calculation of Gross Domestic Product could stimulate R&D investment and technology-driven innovation.

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Micro-Finance: Lessons from the Field 2

Unintended consequences may accrue from a bank’s well-meaning efforts to provide micro-loans. Personal stories from the village of Trom, Ghana, reveal a few cautions.

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Systematic Scam

Obamacare open enrollment is slated for October 1, and identity thieves are at the ready as the federal government creates its largest-ever database of personal information.

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“Bee” Smart Leadership

The case for better care and feeding of your worker bees.

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The New Frontier for Women in Leadership — Including Men

How can it be that in 2013, women currently hold just 10 to 15 percent of the senior leadership (C-Suite) positions in corporate America? To get a different result — to truly support, retain and...

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