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Meteoric Business Innovation at MIT

Gideon Gartner | Posted 11.26.2011

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Gideon Gartner

Many of my mechanical engineering learning experiences at MIT bored me to tears. One exception was an undergraduate course called "Creativity," which possibly influenced my entrepreneurial future.

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Citigroup Customer Data Exposed In Computer Breach

Reuters | Posted 08.08.2011

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June 9, 2011 3:37:53 AM Bangalore (Reuters) - Citigroup Inc confirmed a computer breach at Citi Account Online, giving hackers access to the da...

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Fed's Dividends Decision Helps Shareholders, Might Hurt Taxpayers

The New York Times | Simon Johnson | Posted 05.25.2011

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Four groups of people were directly affected by the Federal Reserve's decision late last week to allow major banks to increase their dividends and to ...

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Goldman Sachs's Hudson Mezzanine CDO Subect Of New Probe By SEC

bloomberg.com | Joshua Gallu and Christine Harper | Posted 05.25.2011

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June 10 (Bloomberg) -- Goldman Sachs Group Inc.'s $2 billion Hudson Mezzanine collateralized debt obligation, sold in 2006, is the target of a probe b...

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Goldman Turns Into a Financial Frankenstein While the Fed Snoozes Away

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 05.25.2011

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Raymond J. Learsy

Goldman was not assisted by the government to become a voracious and even heftier investment bank. Rather, one can presume that the government's assistance was to prevent systemic failure.

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Economics and the Power of Prediction

Robert Teitelman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Robert Teitelman

Economics gets its large and defining role in our world through the shamanistic believe that prediction is possible. Why would economists surrender such a "power"?

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How The Press Failed Readers On The Changing Credit Card Industry

Columbia Journalism Review | Dean Starkman | Posted 05.25.2011

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One of the paradoxes of the business press is that while everyone should read it, since we all live in the economy, not everyone does. In fact, most p...

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