Woods heads Bloomberg BusinessWeek list

2010-02-22T14:05:16Z

<div id="subtitle">Tiger Woods heads Bloomberg BusinessWeek list of powerful athletes</div><div><p>Tiger Woods tops the Bloomberg BusinessWeek list of most powerful athletes, with the companies saying he would have held the top spot even if his infidelity had become public earlier last year.</p>&l...

Apple may replace Google with Bing on iPhone: report

2010-02-22T17:25:45Z

<div><p>Apple is in talks with Microsoft to make Bing the default search engine on the iPhone instead of Google, BusinessWeek magazine reported on Wednesday.</...

Experts Talk Construction Spending, ISM, 'Bond Vigilantes'

2010-02-22T20:44:38Z

<div><p> Bloomberg BusinessWeek compiles comments from Wall Street economists and strategists on the key economic and market topics of Jan. 4.</p><p> Ted Wieseman, Morgan Stanley (MS)</p&gt...

Excerpt: Ron Ashkenas' Route to Simplicity

2010-02-22T20:44:41Z

<div><p> After my story "Simplicity Minded Management" appeared in the Harvard Business Review a couple of years back, I received dozens of requests from managers, consultants, executives, and human resources professionals who wanted to learn about practical applications. I realized that organizations and their leaders needed more than just an appreciation of the importance of simplification...

China Begins Stimulus Exit

2010-02-22T20:45:41Z

<div><p> By Bloomberg News </p><p> [Bloomberg] -- China's move to raise the cost of three-month bills will probably lead to the nation's first interest-rate increase in almost three years by September, a survey of economists showed. </p><p> The

Experts Talk Home Sales, Factory Orders, Obama Agenda

2010-02-22T20:46:53Z

<div><p> Bloomberg BusinessWeek compiles comments from Wall Street economists and strategists on the key economic and market topics of Jan. 5.</p><p> Guy LeBas, Janney Montgomery Scott</p><p> Pending ho...

The Next Wave of Airline Security Systems

2010-02-22T21:16:09Z

<div><p> The attempted bombing of a Detroit-bound Northwest Airlines (DAL) flight on Christmas Day has touched off a push to improve airport security screening. But while most of the attention has focused on body scanners that could have detected explosives the would-be bomber concealed in his underwear, they are only part of a grow...

A Financial Lifeline for Foreign MBA Students

2010-02-23T00:47:34Z

<div><p> Admissions Director Rosemarie Martinelli remembers the panic she felt when she learned a program that the University of Chicago Booth School of Business[Booth Full-Time MBA Profile] was using for international student loans collapsed at the height of the frenzied 200...

Business Schools: Irrelevant No More

2010-02-23T07:06:41Z

<div><p> Almost since their inception more than 100 years ago, the death of business schools and MBAs has been predicted to be imminent. Stuck between a business world that thinks them academic, in the derogatory not the complimentary sense, and universities that think them unacademic, in an equally derogatory sense, it is not surprising that business schools periodically suffer serious bouts of self-doubt. We are currently in the midst of one such period. I am going ...

Innovation Is a Better Way to Compete

2010-02-23T07:43:58Z

<div><p> The nuthatch and brown creeper are different bird species that look a lot alike and eat insects in the same wooded areas in North America. You might think they compete, but they don't. In accordance with a common arrangement in nature that ecologists call the competitive-exclusion principle, the brown creeper starts searching for insects at the bottom of a tree while the nuthatch starts from the top.&a...

The U.S. Auto Market Is Running Out of Used Cars

2010-02-23T07:44:00Z

<div><p> No matter how many times we've been told that the economy is getting better, the most recent Reuters/University of Michigan Index of Consumer Sentiment suggests that the public is not buying it. Coming in at an anemic 73.4 [although up from November's reading], this is a long way from the 100 baseline that denoted consu...

Another Twist in Ex-Broadcom CEO Nicholas' Legal Fight

2010-02-23T11:13:32Z

<div><p> On Feb. 2, U.S. District Judge Cormac J. Carney will listen as prosecutors try to explain why a drug indictment against Broadcom (BRCM) co-founder and former CEO Henry T. Nicholas III should not be thrown out. Nicholas' attorneys argue, in a petition before the

CHINA LEADS U.S. IN IPOs

2010-02-23T11:23:42Z

<div><h1>CHINA LEADS U.S. IN IPOs </h1><img src="http://admatch-syndication.mochila.com/images/ad.gif?aid=65969649&bid=informcom" /></div><div id="copyright"><div> Copyright 2009 <a href="http://www.businessweek.com">BusinessWeek is owned by San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, Dec. 9-13, researchers and physicians traded the latest information on drug discovery, ongoing clinical trials, the genetics of cancer, preventive therapies, and more. Bloomberg's Rob Waters filed these dispatches from the meeting. ...

SARAH KETTERER: MY FAVORITE INDICATOR

2010-02-23T11:24:05Z

<div><h1>SARAH KETTERER: MY FAVORITE INDICATOR </h1><p>I'm watching volatility. The MSCI World Index, which tracks developed markets, had an average annualized return of 10% over the past 30 years. Volatility, or the risk that the index's returns would swing wildly compared with historic norms, averaged 15%. In the credit crisis, it shot to more than 40%. It's now 25%. If v...

INVESTORS START TO LOOSEN UP

2010-02-23T11:24:08Z

<div><h1>INVESTORS START TO LOOSEN UP </h1><p>A Bloomberg BusinessWeek poll finds that investors are less fearful than they were a year ago, at the height of the financial crisis. Real estate has regained favor, as have mutual funds. Gold is big, too--a sign that some investors are worried about inflation and a sinking dollar. Meanwhile, safe government bonds and ...

THE DREAMLINER FLIES

2010-02-23T11:24:27Z

<div><h1>THE DREAMLINER FLIES </h1><p>It took more than two years, but Boeing's 787 Dreamliner finally got off the ground. (Although the first test flight, around Seattle on Dec. 15, was cut short by foul weather.) Now comes a rigorous testing program over the coming year to obtain government certification ahead of a planned delivery in lat...

EXXON GOES FOR GAS

2010-02-23T11:24:39Z

<div><h1>EXXON GOES FOR GAS </h1><p>ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson suggests it may take awhile before the wisdom of his Dec. 14, $41 billion acquisition of XTO Energy is obvious. XTO drills for "shale gas," a type of fuel obtained by injecting ...

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