Nussbaum Center Uncg Launch New Program
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The Nussbaum Center for Entrepreneurship and UNC-Greensboro’s Bryan School of Business and Economics will partner on a new program to offer more assistance to entrepreneurs from students.
The Entrepreneur Assistance Support and Education program will use master’s-level interns in marketing and accounting who will work with clients of the Nussbaum business incubator. There are currently [...]
Study Health Industry Growing
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Comparatively, employment in automotive manufacturing dropped by about 17 percent in that same three-year period and education jobs grew by only about 2 percent.
“The growth in health care employment was not enough to offset the losses in manufacturing,” said Charles Ballard, professor of economics at Michigan State University. “But clearly we’re a whole lot better [...]
Yek Business Program Gets $34,000 Gift From Cargill
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Cargill Inc. has donated more than $34,000 to Youth Entrepreneurs of Kansas.
The money is going toward a program that provides YEK students with backpacks filled with business supplies. They will be issued at the beginning of the school year and is theirs to keep through the duration of the business-education program.
“This support from Cargill gives [...]
May 21 Conference Geared To Entrepreneurs, Small Business
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Big box retailers, call centers and corporate institutions may get a lot of attention when the subject of Maine抯 economy comes up, but state and local business leaders, economists and market researchers know well the importance of small business in Maine.
Small businesses, micro-businesses of four or fewer employees, and budding entrepreneurs have an economic impact [...]
Hamline Launches Business School Education Jobs
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Minnesota’s oldest liberal arts institution is launching a business school.
St. Paul-based Hamline University’s move to offer undergraduate business degrees, expand an existing graduate business program and open a St. Louis Park site at Interstate 394 and Minnesota Highway 100 stokes the competition in the local b-school market. It also bodes well for Hamline’s bottom line, [...]
Older Americans wealthier living longer
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - Older Americans have more money and are expected to live far longer than prior generations, U.S. government researchers said on Thursday.
They said the average net worth of older Americans — those 65 or older — has increased almost 80 percent over the past 20 years.
And those who reach the age of 65 [...]
UPDATE 1Older Americans wealthier living longer report
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By Julie Steenhuysen
CHICAGO, March 27 (Reuters) - Older Americans have more
money and are expected to live far longer than prior
generations, U.S. government researchers said on Thursday.
They said the average net worth of older Americans — those
65 or older — has increased almost 80 percent over the past 20
years.
And those who reach [...]
Need to know
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Economics UK economic growth will slow to 1.7 per cent this year and fall further
to 1.5 per cent next year, the Institute of Directors forecast. This is well
below the Chancellors forecast for GDP growth of between 2.25 per cent and
2.75 per cent in 2009.
Bank of Japan Masaaki Shirakawa, Deputy Governor of the Bank of Japan,
has [...]
Finance lessons edged out by time deficit
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Parents brought up in the days when there were student grants and money was a dirty word may be a little worried by the way the workaday world of business and finance seems to be creeping into their children’s education. With an extra E for economics being added to the confusing subject area known as [...]
The new seekers
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I’m most like a ’seeker’,” says Fiona Fung, 21, from Brunei, in her final year of a BA in media and performance at Salford University. “But I’ve got friends who are ‘gekkos’.” “I’m a ‘bono’,” says Cecilia Ostlund, 23, from Sweden, in her last year of a BA in languages and management at Lancaster University.What [...]
