| Q & A: Bears owner Virginia McCaskey | | Posted Thursday, January 25, 2007 12:55:03 PM by Blog57 Team | | Q: You have talked before about being unexpectedly thrust into the role of owner. Can you elaborate on the importance of maintaining the legacy? A: I think it's important that all of our family remembers that we really haven't done anything to earn this. We're just the recipients of a tremendous legacy. I use the word custodian, and we want to pass it on the best way we can. Q: Giving yourself enough credit? A: It was a bumpy road a lot of times, how I should sell the team and give Chicago competent ownership. OK, maybe I'm not competent, but Ed and I found the people to do the job. Actually, we found Ted Phillips and he found Jerry Angelo and Jerry Angelo found Lovie Smith. And here we are. INTERJECT By Mrs. McCaskey: I'd like to go back to the Colts for a moment, because I also want to mention the high regard Ed and I have always had for Bill Polian and Tony Dungy, along with Jim Irsay.... | |
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| | | UF Graduate School Of Business Receives $30 Million Gift | | Posted Saturday, January 20, 2007 2:48:50 PM by Blog57 Team | | St. Petersburg investment banker William R. Hough gave the University of Florida its largest private gift ever - $30 million for graduate business programs. Hough, a 1948 graduate of the university's first master of business administration class, wants the school to be a national powerhouse and says the state Legislature is not paying it enough money to make that happen. "It's the top business school in Florida," Hough said by phone after UF officials announced the gift in Gainesville. "I want to see it become the best in the country." His gift qualifies for up to $20 million in matching state funds, bringing its total value to as much as $50 million. The money establishes an endowment to back teaching and school programs in the graduate business school, which will be named the Hough Graduate School of Business.... | |
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| | | Business opportunity in Pacific gaining international traction | | Posted Saturday, December 09, 2006 12:48:12 PM by Blog57 Team | | Conducting business in the islands was the focus of a conference coordinated by the United States Department of the Interior. Hundreds took the opportunity to see what the insular areas have to offer, with the main goal being to try and stimulate an appetite amongst various companies to bring economic development to the island. Andy Jordanou is acting administrator for the Guam Economic Development and Commerce Authority, and tells KUAM News this year's Business Opportunity Conference was a thriving success."We had about 500 or 600 CDs that GEDCA presented for opportunities. We have submitted all of those we had a place that we designated and everybody that was involved basically took one. We had over 700 hundred people attended this conference," he explained. Jordanou says that this conference is primarily for the insular islands and those insular areas that fall under the DOI's umbrella.... | |
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| | | Orange County's Largest Mixer Joins Chambers of Commerce With Business Professionals for a Networking Event Unlike Any | | Posted Wednesday, November 15, 2006 10:48:14 AM by Blog57 Team | | In Southern California, the adage, "It's not what you know, it's who you know" still rings true. And the more people you know the better. Orange County's Largest Mixer IV provides the perfect opportunity to mix business with the pleasure of networking to help build that ever-important contact list. "The great availability of diverse professions -- all in one place, all at one time -- and all exchanging information and ideas brings me back to Orange County's Largest Mixer for another year," said Daran K.S. Meredith, Senior Loan Consultant, Ross Mortgage in Irvine, CA. "The mortgage industry is and has been a very difficult market in Southern California. Because of this, you must always be branching out. The Largest Mixer is a fantastic chance to enforce this credo." Scheduled for Thursday, March 8, 2007 from 5 to 9 p.m., the event will be held at the Orange County Fair and Exposition Center, 88 Fair Drive, Costa Mesa, CA 92626.... | |
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| | | MBA-Business-Schools.com Suggested Careers Make "Best Jobs in America" List | | Posted Monday, November 13, 2006 6:48:04 PM by Blog57 Team | | (PRWEB) November 13, 2006 -- MBA-Business-Schools.com's "Tips and Advice" section and Money Magazine and Salary.com's "Best Jobs in America" list both agree that marketing communications and human resources management jobs have bright futures. MBA-Business-Schools.com, a Web site that offers resources to potential students seeking a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree program, highlights jobs in the marketing communications and human resources sectors as prime career paths for MBA grads (http://www.mba-business-schools.com/articles/). "Money Magazine" and Salary.com's "Best Jobs in America" support those suggestions and rank human resources manager as the fourth best job in America, advertising manager as eleventh and public relations specialist as twentieth on a list of 50 careers.... | |
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| | | For small investor, opportunity online | | Posted Sunday, November 12, 2006 2:50:14 AM by Blog57 Team | | Online share trading has witnessed tremendous growth in the recent past and is emerging as a popular tool for investments in the stock market. Business Line caught up with Mr Kedar Deshpande, Assistant General Manager, ICICIdirect.com, to discuss the advantages that the e-broking platform offers to the retail investor. Excerpts from the interview: Unlike in the West, online trading in India is still at a nascent stage. Your comments. About 75 per cent of the population in the US invests in equities or mutual funds, whereas in India the investor population is just two per cent. Further, only seven million (roughly about 0.7 per cent of the population) of them hold shares in dematerialised form. One of the main reasons for this low investor base is that for a vast majority of people, access to the capital market is difficult.... | |
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| | | Many Companies See Business Opportunity in Citizenship and ... | | Posted Saturday, November 11, 2006 12:51:11 PM by Blog57 Team | | NEW YORK, Nov. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- A majority of major companies concerned with corporate responsibility issues acknowledge that they lack an active strategy to develop new business opportunities arising from meeting these citizenship and sustainability needs, according to a report released today by The Conference Board. The report is based on a new survey of 198 medium to large multinational companies. It is the first report issued by The Center for Corporate Citizenship & Sustainability, just launched by The Conference Board, to help senior executives seize opportunities and avert risks stemming from corporate social responsibility issues. Nearly half (46%) of the responding companies say that corporate citizenship and sustainability are major sources of business opportunity and not only sources of business risk alone.... | |
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| | | Many Companies See Business Opportunity in Citizenship and Sustainability Issues, but Few Have Strategies to Capitalize | | Posted Friday, November 10, 2006 10:49:54 AM by Blog57 Team | | A majority of major companies concerned with corporate responsibility issues acknowledge that they lack an active strategy to develop new business opportunities arising from meeting these citizenship and sustainability needs, according to a report released today by The Conference Board. The report is based on a new survey of 198 medium to large multinational companies. It is the first report issued by The Center for Corporate Citizenship & Sustainability, just launched by The Conference Board, to help senior executives seize opportunities and avert risks stemming from corporate social responsibility issues. Nearly half (46%) of the responding companies say that corporate citizenship and sustainability are major sources of business opportunity and not only sources of business risk alone.... | |
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| | | Business Objects Puts New Productivity Twist on XI | | Posted Wednesday, November 08, 2006 2:48:29 PM by Blog57 Team | | Business Objects SA is prepping a user-friendly upgrade of its flagship XI Release 2 business intelligence platform that incorporates new innovations the company has been working on around enterprise search and data visualization. The new release, which is being called "Productivity Suite", is expected in the first half of 2007 and comes with a usability twist on the XI Release 2 platform that was launched a year ago. .... | |
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| | | Ferry business in choppy waters | | Posted Monday, November 06, 2006 10:50:07 PM by Blog57 Team | | When Manhattan attorney William B. Wachtel rescued NY Waterway from near-bankruptcy last year, he beamed about his opportunity to save a historic form of transportation. Ferries were in his blood, said Wachtel, who talked about being "in my mother's belly riding the Fire Island ferries." .... | |
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