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Swiss business school IMD has named long-time marketing professor Dominique Turpin to serve as its next president, the school’s equivalent of dean, the Financial Times reports. Turpin succeeds John Wells, who stepped down in June after just over two years in the post. Turpin, who has worked at IMD for more than 20 years, was [...]

Many business school applicants plan to begin their own ventures one day, so in this week’s Trivia Tuesday, we’ll take a look at some of the hands-on new venture funding and entrepreneurial learning experiences available to students at Ross and Johnson. The Wolverine Venture Fund (WVF) at Michigan’s Ross School of Business is one of [...]

Filed under: Joe Francis, Celebrity Justice  Joe Francis just received a visit from L.A. County Sheriff’s Deputies … who seized his car! The deputies were there to enforce a judgment against Francis in a 2003 civil case.  L.A. County Sheriff’s spokesperson Steve Whitmore tells TMZ… Read more Go to Source

Filed under: Jake Gyllenhaal, Taylor Swift, Hook Ups After being spotted getting cozy at a coffee shop in Tennessee this weekend, rumored couple Jake Gyllenhaal , 29, and Taylor Swift , 20, enjoyed another intimate cup of joe at the Frothy Monkey in Nashville this morning. Sources tell us the duo have been… Read more [...]

ATLANTA — The number of so-called “dropout factory” high schools in the United States has declined since 2002, translating into at least 100,000 more students getting a diploma, a new report shows. But the report from America’s Promise Alliance to be released Tuesday also said that progress needs to increase fivefold for the country to [...]

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Karl Denninger submits: Ambrose-Evans Pritchard manages to speak the truth in The Telegraph today: Stripped to its essentials, the €85bn package imposed on Ireland by the Eurogroup and the European Central Bank is a bail-out for improvident British, German, Dutch, and Belgian bankers and creditors. Complete Story » Go to Source

Chevelle submits: While high-ranking eurozone bureaucrats are ruminating on the appropriate burden-sharing mechanisms of a future Europe, something potentially more momentous has been going on in the background: European banks have been cutting back their intra-European exposures… fast! The numbers are pretty stunning: Between December 2009 and June 2010 (the latest data available from the [...]

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The National Restaurant Association (NRA) reported today that its Restaurant Performance Index reached a three-year high of 100.7 in October, the highest level since September 2007 (see chart above).  Restaurant sales set a new monthly industry record in October, with sales above last October by more than 4%, and year-to-date restaurant sales above last year [...]