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Getting into b-school
Is the GMAT the most important criterion? Personal essays? Letters of recommendation? School of Management Director of Graduate Admissions Christopher Storer discusses the business-school admissions...
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Creative Writing Program hosts annual Faculty Reading
The Creative Writing Program will be hosting its annual Faculty Reading tonight at 7:30 PM in the School of Management Auditorium (595 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston). The readers will include: former US...
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Google buys 3-D software maker Bump
Continuing its furious buying spree, Google has acquired Bump Technologies, maker of software that makes computer desktops appear to be 3-D. This latest acquisition by the world’s most popular search...
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Greece's debt crisis grows
As nationwide workers’ strikes continued and deadly riots erupted in Athens over austerity measures invoked to deal with Greece’s ongoing debt crisis, fears grew that the situation may adversely impact...
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iPad rival from Verizon/Google
Verizon and Google are teaming to develop a tablet computer in their combined effort to catch up with Apple‘s iPad and host AT&T. School of Management Professor N. Venkat Venkatraman, head of the...
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German trading ban roils markets
Because no one followed suit, Germany’s unlateral ban on “naked” short selling of European government bonds – speculative bets that prices will fall on borrowed assets which then can be sold back to...
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Congress close to financial reg reform
The most extensive overhaul of financial regulations since the 1930s has cleared its big hurdle in the U.S. Senate and how can head to President Obama for a signature after a conference committee works...
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Financial regulatory reform crunch time
Capitol Hill negotiators from the House and Senate committees dealing with financial regulatory reform are getting down to the details of working out differences between the bills passed in respective...
View ArticleKenneth W. Freeman named Dean of Boston University School of Management
Kenneth W. Freeman, currently a partner in the investment firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR), today was named the Allen Questrom Professor and Dean of Boston University’s School of Management...
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Goldman executives questioned
The Congressionally appointed Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission exploring the 2008 crash questioned executives from Goldman Sachs, the world’s most profitable bank, about how much it makes trading...
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