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President Obama has a new idea to stimulate the economy, but not raise the national debt.  The President is proposing the “Buffett Tax Rule for Millionaires.”  Essentially, this means that people making more than $1 million a year will pay a higher percentage of their income in federal and payroll taxes than those who make [...]

Today we learned that our MBA program ranked 20th in the world and 5th among smaller full-time MBA programs by the Aspen Institute. This is consistent with our rank of 22 in 2009 and an improvement over our first participation in the survey in 2007, when we ranked 66th.  The “big reveal” happened at midnight.  [...]

We love to hate it.  I am referring to our daily dose of “junk mail.”  It may be tossed into the recycling bin while hunting for something of substance., but we are reluctant to dismiss it altogether.  There is something life affirming about viewing a crisp envelope with my name and my address correctly spelled [...]

First day on the job!  It’s a big deal!  Especially when jobs are hard to find.  But good market or bad, the first day on the job is both exciting, and a little intimidating. To begin with, the employee wants to make a good impression.  Wants to seem glad to be there, and eager to [...]

President Obama was absolutely correct when he said that the unemployment level in America is too high and that we need to put people back to work.  Americans, he said, believe in work and want to work.  Work is part of our heritage and culture.  The great promise of the Protestant Work Ethic is that [...]

The current political buzz is about jobs — or lack thereof –  in the U.S. economy.  Economists at the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that unemployment at the end of August is at a seasonally adjusted rate of 9.1%.  This is a sad figure, since the number represents 14 million unemployed Americans and struggling [...]

Fall is upon us again, and with the start of school, the annual debate about the real value and the high cost of a college education is “open for discussion” once more! Over the last few years this debate has taken on a much sharper and angrier tone due to the continuing precariousness of both [...]

The first temperature dip in September elicits visions of  football, autumn harvest meals and multi-colored leaves.  Fall marks the spring of the new school year.  We reap the harvest of our summer experiences as we begin afresh the process of creating an intellectual, spiritual and social network.  As we savor the balmy days of Indian [...]

I don’t know about you, but I was more than a little horrified this past summer by the conduct of both political parties in the debate regarding the federal budget and the national debt. Frankly, it was not only embarrassing, it bordered on irresponsible and unethical behavior by all involved! Instead of a philosophical debate [...]