Copyright (c) 2009 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/i/1295 business Business - Opinion en-us Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:08:41 GMT 5 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/i/1295 http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/nws/th/main_142b.gif http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/buscommentary/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/bw/20091106/bs_bw/nov2009bs2009115016982 bw/20091106/nov2009bs2009115016982 BusinessWeek business Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:08:41 GMT BusinessWeek - Our goal as college professors is to open students minds to new experiences so they can grow intellectually while they mature through the traditional four-year process. But we are also challenged to give students the immediate skills they will need once they graduate so that they can begin their professional careers and move away from the fry-o-later to the cubicle and beyond. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/buscommentary/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/bw/20091106/bs_bw/0946b4155088843140 bw/20091106/0946b4155088843140 BusinessWeek business Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:08:41 GMT BusinessWeek - For three months early this year, 63-year-old Ronald Lang was one of the most plugged-in patients in America. Lang, who suffers from congestive heart failure and multiple sclerosis, was pilot-testing the Intel (NasdaqGS:INTC - News) Health Guide, a device that lets doctors monitor his health remotely. Each day after he woke up, he'd step on a scale and strap on a blood pressure cuff that was attached to the Health Guide. The device collected his vital signs and zapped them to his doctor's office. ... http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/buscommentary/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/bw/20091106/bs_bw/0946b4155058815908 bw/20091106/0946b4155058815908 BusinessWeek business Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:08:41 GMT BusinessWeek - Stuart Frankel isn't what you'd call a power player in the world of franchising. Five years ago he owned two small Subway sandwich shops at either end of Miami's Jackson Memorial Hospital. After noticing that sales sagged on weekends, he came up with an idea: He would offer every footlong sandwich (the chain also sells 6-inch versions) on Saturday and Sunday for $5, about a buck less than the usual price. "I like round numbers," says Frankel, a brusque New Yorker who moved to Miami in 1972 and owned a drugstore before opening his first Subway outlet in 1988. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/buscommentary/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/bw/20091106/bs_bw/0946b4155030836539 bw/20091106/0946b4155030836539 BusinessWeek business Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:08:41 GMT BusinessWeek - As a candidate and President, Barack Obama has had one core message for the middle class: I won't raise your taxes. The White House has pledged that only the wealthy -- families earning more than $250,000 -- would face a boost in income, capital gains, or other taxes. For the 97% of Americans below that level, no increases are in store. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/buscommentary/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/bw/20091106/bs_bw/nov2009gb2009115550451 bw/20091106/nov2009gb2009115550451 BusinessWeek business Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:08:41 GMT BusinessWeek - After> Today,> Eastern>The> In> Eastern> Jena:>One> Jena> Another> Rural>Still,> Given> Peter> For> http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/buscommentary/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/bw/20091106/bs_bw/nov2009gb2009115371357 bw/20091106/nov2009gb2009115371357 BusinessWeek business Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:08:41 GMT BusinessWeek - On> Across> German> Rapid>I> When> The> Reunification> Culture>The> The> By> With> Trade>For> Almost> From> Victory>I> Inside> http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/buscommentary/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/bw/20091106/bs_bw/nov2009bw2009115287334 bw/20091106/nov2009bw2009115287334 BusinessWeek business Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:08:41 GMT BusinessWeek - The> A> Topping> None> "These> Room>The> A> The> "If> Travel,> "People> New> The> "Without> Click> http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/buscommentary/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/bw/20091106/bs_bw/0946b4155087841130 bw/20091106/0946b4155087841130 BusinessWeek business Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:08:41 GMT BusinessWeek - The stock market's surge ended in October. After seven months of gains the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index closed at 1036.18 Oct. 30, down 2% for the month. Investors are left to ponder whether this is a pause or prelude to a deeper dive. In other words: Is the market overvalued or undervalued? As these experts show in their analysis of the market's price-earnings ratio, the answer depends on whether you're looking back or looking ahead. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/buscommentary/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/bw/20091106/bs_bw/0946b4155048800331 bw/20091106/0946b4155048800331 BusinessWeek business Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:08:41 GMT BusinessWeek - When Megan Lum enrolled in the MBA program for executives at the University of Washington's Foster School of Business last fall, her plan was to use the degree as a stepping-stone to the C-suite. Based on her career trajectory, that goal wasn't so farfetched. In 20 years she had worked her way up the corporate ladder to the role of senior environmental manager at Weyerhaeuser . The company thought so highly of her that it agreed to foot 80% of the bill for her EMBA, a nice perk considering the degree's $75,000 price tag. ... http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/buscommentary/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/bw/20091106/bs_bw/nov2009id2009114889781 bw/20091106/nov2009id2009114889781 BusinessWeek business Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:08:41 GMT BusinessWeek - On a sunny day in June 2006, David McDonough, chief executive of Trustmark Insurance, was roaming Chicago's Navy Pier, talking to strangers. "We needed to understand what made people tick," says McDonough of the exercise, which was part of a two-day workshop designed to get his executive team to look beyond actuarial tables and stimulate thinking about the company's future. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/buscommentary/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/bw/20091106/bs_bw/nov2009bs2009114875502 bw/20091106/nov2009bs2009114875502 BusinessWeek business Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:08:41 GMT BusinessWeek - "Tell me," the career counselor said. "Why did you decide to study for an MBA?" http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/buscommentary/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/bw/20091106/bs_bw/mar2009ca20090327860041 bw/20091106/mar2009ca20090327860041 BusinessWeek business Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:08:41 GMT BusinessWeek - TalentSmart industrial psychologists have studied emotional intelligence (EQ) -- a person's ability to understand and manage emotions -- in the workplace for well over a decade. Back in 2003 we embarked on a mission to measure shifts in America's collective EQ. Each year since then, we have measured the EQ of tens of thousands of people. To our pleasant surprise, we discovered the collective EQ of the U.S. workforce climbed steadily from 2003 to 2007. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/buscommentary/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/bw/20091105/bs_bw/nov2009gb2009112915027 bw/20091105/nov2009gb2009112915027 BusinessWeek business Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:08:45 GMT BusinessWeek - Like> The> Now> So> Manchester>Meanwhile,> Manchester> The> Iowa>Like> Making> Although> http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/buscommentary/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/bw/20091105/bs_bw/nov2009gb2009112513163 bw/20091105/nov2009gb2009112513163 BusinessWeek business Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:08:45 GMT BusinessWeek - As the ice hockey legend Wayne Gretzky astutely noted, one should "skate to where the puck will be, not where it is now." In management education, the puck is moving rapidly toward Asia. Western business schools that do not figure out how to play the Asia game effectively run a serious risk of ending up as regional players. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/buscommentary/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/bw/20091105/bs_bw/nov2009db2009112606442 bw/20091105/nov2009db2009112606442 BusinessWeek business Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:08:45 GMT BusinessWeek - To> Citigroup> Health-care> Large>According> Like> "It's> New> New>Responsibility> The> When> The> At>There> On> "We> http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/buscommentary/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/bw/20091105/bs_bw/nov2009bs2009112962441 bw/20091105/nov2009bs2009112962441 BusinessWeek business Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:08:45 GMT BusinessWeek - Wow. That one word pretty much sums up my summer internship at The Washington Post newspaper. At first, my project -- creating a print wedding planning guide for the D.C. metro area -- sounded like it would be cool but perhaps not too substantive. As I met with my two managers to discuss it over lunch on my first day, however, the project quickly revealed itself in all its multifaceted, cross-functional, skill-stretching glory as the most perfect MBA internship project I could have imagined. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/buscommentary/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/bw/20091105/bs_bw/nov2009db2009112270880 bw/20091105/nov2009db2009112270880 BusinessWeek business Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:08:45 GMT BusinessWeek - Outsourcing> But> "Unless> Part>Bendor-Samuel> H-1B> Som> Lots>For> It> Experts> Opening>HCL> Khorana> HCL> Up>Ramasubbu> http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/buscommentary/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/bw/20091102/bs_bw/0945b4154056753069 bw/20091102/0945b4154056753069 BusinessWeek business Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:08:44 GMT BusinessWeek - Every Friday morning, James J. Murren heads to the Las Vegas Strip in his chauffeur-driven SUV to check on the status of his dream project. "Look at that," says the chairman and CEO of MGM Mirage , pausing inside the Aria Resort & Casino. "The marble, the vaulted ceiling -- it looks like the Vatican." http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/buscommentary/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/bw/20091030/bs_bw/oct2009db20091028283152 bw/20091030/oct2009db20091028283152 BusinessWeek business Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:08:41 GMT BusinessWeek - The Oct. 28 report by the government that the rate of new-home sales posted a surprising 3.6% drop in September from August is likely to give a boost to advocates of extending a federal first-time home-buyer tax credit that is due to expire at the end of November. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/buscommentary/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/bw/20091030/bs_bw/oct2009bs20091029551372 bw/20091030/oct2009bs20091029551372 BusinessWeek business Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:08:41 GMT BusinessWeek - Columbia Business School (Columbia Full-Time MBA Profile), which is No. 7 on BusinessWeek's 2008 list of the best business schools in the nation, is highly selective. In fact, this year the admissions committee accepted just 15% of the nearly 7,000 applications it received. Standing out and expressing how you could contribute to the community are key elements in the Columbia application.