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Bow Tie Revolution
Dressed in a blue oxford shirt and neatly pressed khakis, Diego Torres-Palma looks like any other MBA student. But what sets the 26-year-old entrepreneurial engineer apart is his choice of neckwear. On...
View ArticleStrange Bedfellows
A finance major and a philosophy professor are in a room. (No, this isn’t the setup for a joke.) The prof has just given the student a less-than-stellar grade on a paper, which makes this prelude to...
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Your Financial Life Explained
The course description for Aaron Stevens’ economics class should read: “Take this and you’ll be prepared for every decision you make from now until death.” That may be a tad dramatic, but it’s not far...
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Crazy? The Man Bought a Bookstore
For the past year, Tom Lyons has been planning with the precision of a field general, hiring a consultant and holding weekly meetings. The issue? How to move and recategorize more than a million books....
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Shopping Smart for the Holidays
The future of the economy may be uncertain, but money woes appear not to have dampened the spirits of holiday shoppers. Spending over the four-day weekend following Thanksgiving, including Black Friday...
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Want to Be a Successful Artist?
To tweet or not to tweet? If you make your living as an independent painter, sculptor, graphic designer, musician, actor, or director, the answer is: tweet. As well as blog, email, and Facebook—and...
View ArticleThe Fine Points of Sports Marketing
BU journalism lecturer Jack Falla was famous for scheduling his College of Communication sports writing classes at 8 a.m. A longtime Sports Illustrated reporter, Falla (COM’67,’90) was widely...
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Abolishing Work-at-Home Policies
Last week, Best Buy became the second Fortune 500 Company to announce recently that employees would no longer be allowed to work from home. Best Buy’s decision came on the heels of an announcement by...
View ArticleNPR to Take WBUR’s Here & Now National
This summer, the country will be tuning in to the studios at 890 Commonwealth Avenue more often than ever. National Public Radio last week announced a new partnership with WBUR, Boston University’s NPR...
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JetBlue CEO Talks Airlines, Aspirations
David Barger, JetBlue president and CEO, liberally mixed humor and candor throughout an hour-long discussion last week at the School of Management about JetBlue’s success in an airline industry replete...
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Taste Makers
A smooth, full-flavored beverage with dark fruit and licorice notes in the aroma. Pairs well with beef and earthy cheeses. The description above is not some sommelier’s assessment of a $42 pinot noir;...
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SMG’s Finance Degree Ranked Seventh Nationwide
Michael Tobitsch took his first finance class junior year at BU and never looked back. He landed a job after graduation in investment banking at Wachovia Securities, now merged with Wells Fargo, where...
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BU Team Takes a First at MIT Clean Energy Competition
A new technology that could be a game-changer for energy use in today’s commercial buildings, the result of a collaboration between two BU schools, took first prize in the energy efficiency category of...
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BU Earns Greenovate Boston Award
BU’s favorite color—right behind scarlet and white, of course—is green. Why? Because the University has made a solid commitment over the past several years to embrace ecofriendly practices that have...
View ArticleDoes Massachusetts Hate Business?
It’s That ’70s Show time at Chief Executive magazine. A generation after Massachusetts was dubbed “Taxachusetts” for its putative hostility to business, the charge has been resurrected in the magazine...
View ArticleUnpaid Interns and the Law
The days of unpaid interns doing anything from getting coffee to writing for the company’s blog may be numbered. Three recent lawsuits filed by former interns target employers who allegedly benefited...
View ArticleSMG Named 10th Among World’s Best B-Schools
Who needs Wharton or Kellogg when you can have BU? Business Insider recently ranked Boston University’s School of Management 10th in its survey of the World’s Best Business Schools, boosting its...
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Updated Technology Enhances New Curricula at SMG
Case studies are a thing of the past in Lloyd Baird’s undergraduate course Meeting the Leadership Challenge. Why read about a business dilemma, he says, when students can help solve a real one? Baird,...
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The Quirky Birth of SMG
Men, Men, Men. That’s what the relatively small number of male Boston University alumni wanted to see more of at their alma mater. It was the early 20th century, and graduates of the previous century...
View ArticleYelp Reviews: Can You Trust Them?
If you’re combing Yelp reviews to decide where to eat, you’re likely to be misled or even duped, according to Georgios Zervas, coauthor of a recent study concluding that at least 16 percent of the...
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