Archive for June, 2010:

Harvard Business School Announces 2+2 Program Updates

For applicants to the 2+2 Program at Harvard Business School (HBS), Admissions Director Dee Leopold provided updates about upcoming steps in the current admissions cycle in a recent post to her Director’s Blog. Interview invitations will go out on July 19th, she wrote. Her team expects to invite roughly 200 applicants to interview at that time, [...]

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Will You Go It Alone?

Yesterday we posted an article about the recent surge in entrepreneurial activity at Yale. Now we wonder, how entrepreneurial are you? Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post’s poll. Go to Source

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Suge Knight — Stay Away, or Else!

Filed under: Suge Knight, Celebrity Justice Semi-good news for a man who claimed Suge Knight put out a hit on his life — Suge was just ordered to stay the hell away from the guy for three years … good news only if Suge gets the memo. According to documents obtained by TMZ, the L.A. [...]

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Lindsay Lohan’s Hired Help — I Can’t Quit You

Filed under: Lindsay Lohan, Budweiser Select 55 Lindsay Lohan ‘s former assistant — the one who quit earlier this month — is back doing LiLo’s dirty work … we’re guessin’ because the Naomi Campbell gig didn’t pan out. TMZ has learned Eleonore — who was loving life yesterday as she schlepped… Read more Go to [...]

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Solar Energy: Blue Jeans The Secret To Better Technology

It turns out that particular molecules found in blue jeans and some ink dyes can be used in a process for assembling a structure called “covalent organic framework” or COF, which can help create cheaper, flexible solar cells. More on Green Energy Go to Source

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Rep. Carolyn Maloney: Innovation: Creating the Next Generation of Jobs

As we dig out from the Great Recession, there’s no silver bullet to cure the high unemployment rate. We need a robust job creation strategy to help us recover the almost 8.4 million jobs lost during the recession. Innovation must be at the center of such a strategy. Fostering innovation and transforming that innovation into [...]

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Who Will Pay, Wall Street or Main Street?

Ellen Brown submits: Wall Street banks have been saved from bankruptcy by governments that are now going bankrupt themselves; but the banks are not returning the favor. Instead, they are engaged in a class war, insisting that the squeezed middle class be even further squeezed to balance over-stressed government budgets. All the perks are going [...]

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Surprising Success of European Bank Stress Tests

The European bank stress test has already proven a huge success. This is unlike the US version, which in retrospect didn’t even begin to identify any real problem, functioning as nothing more than the standard Ministry of Truth line of "move on, nothing to see here." No, I’m not saying the European version has more [...]

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Hot Clicks: Bethany Dempsey; Vanity Fair-Erin Andrews bizarre interview

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Restaurant Activity Softens in May, But Outook Remains Pos. as Capital Spending Rose to 2-Yr. High

“The outlook for the restaurant industry softened in May, as the National Restaurant Association’s comprehensive index of restaurant activity fell below 100 for the first time in three months. The Association’s Restaurant Performance Index (RPI) - a monthly composite index that tracks the health of and outlook for the U.S. restaurant industry - stood at 99.7 in [...]

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