Kellogg class examines value of fashion
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The course, the first of its kind at the business school, will teach MBAs how to manage the fashion component necessary to launch and sustain a successful product, said Steven Fischer, the instructor who created the course.
There will be no talk of seams and fabrics here. Rather, students will learn how fashion can become an [...]
LeBron James’s Olympic Cheat Sheet Is Growing: Scott Soshnick
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LeBron James can jam. We’ll soon know if he can cram.
Almost a year ago the National Basketball Association star and Vogue magazine cover boy was invited to join professional athletes in signing an open letter to the Chinese government. The letter, penned by James’s former teammate, Ira Newble, urged China to pressure Sudan, a major [...]
Call to keep the internet faith despite downturn
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Venture capitalists should not let prevailing financial conditions prevent them from putting money into technology start-ups, one leading investor has warned.
The internet industry, which relies largely on venture capital to fund start-up companies, has yet to feel any significant damage as a result of the spreading credit crisis. However, many investors are now being swayed [...]
Yahoo releases rosy forecast
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SAN FRANCISCOYahoo Inc. has released a rosy outlook for the next two years, hoping to give investors a better understanding why the slumping Internet pioneer isnt willing to sell to Microsoft Corp. for less than $45 billion (dollar figures U.S.). Analysts interpreted the [...]
Murdoch wont get into a fight with Microsoft
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Rupert Murdoch said yesterday his News Corp. organization would not get into a fight with Microsoft Corp. over Yahoo Inc., confirming what most industry and Wall Street observers suspected. Murdoch’s company has been in talks with Yahoo over a transaction to combine [...]
Make money by investing in your kind of music
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Slicethepie.com has financed 13 bands, earned 40,000 scouts more than %26pound;40,000 ($97,000) and landed hundreds of investors some rosy returns since its launch seven months ago.
The problem the industry is struggling with is that the cost of producing new artists is phenomenally high, the companys founder and chief executive David Cortier-Dutton, tells Reuters.
With music sales [...]
Woosh ponders DSL pullout
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The loss was slightly smaller than Wooshs $24 million net loss in 2006 and was achieved on higher revenues of $17.8 million. The result took Wooshs accumulated losses to $117.4 million.
Woosh said in a note to its accounts that directors believed there was a reasonable expectation the company will have sufficient resources to continue trading [...]
Credit crunch fuels investor thirst for art wine
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Downturns typically mean a slowdown in investments that are seen as discretionary, but industry watchers say the credit crunch has left the appeal of so-called investments of passion art, wine and collectibles largely untarnished.
Instead, they say, it brought home the need for investors to take on uncorrelated assets to offset the ups and downs of [...]
20000 fine for broker who lost clients’ 2m
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Michelle Jensens case, and the amount of money she lost from primarily innocent people, has been described as an unprecedented prosecution under the Securities Act.
But Jensen, a 31-year-old Martinborough artist with three young children, did not set out to commit fraud, Masterton District Court heard during sentencing yesterday.
Jensen had pleaded guilty to five charges laid [...]
20000 fine for broker who lost clients’ 2m
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Michelle Jensens case, and the amount of money she lost from primarily innocent people, has been described as an unprecedented prosecution under the Securities Act.
But Jensen, a 31-year-old Martinborough artist with three young children, did not set out to commit fraud, Masterton District Court heard during sentencing yesterday.
Jensen had pleaded guilty to five charges laid [...]