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A Correlation Between Obesity and Medicare Costs Is Apparent. How About Some Incentives...
As Lending Heats Up Chinese Real Estate, Bankers Receive Stern Warning from Government Last week, KnowledgeToday noted growing concern about a real estate bubble forming in China, where government figures show housing prices increased in October by 3.9% in 70 big and medium-sized cities. In...
New Violence Underscores India's Troubled Labor-Management Relationships As India Knowledge@Wharton reported in a July article, titled Labor Pains: Is Industrial Unrest Growing or Slowing?, the emerging economy's economic slowdown and outdated labor laws have led to disturbing incidents of violence...
Stimulus Lending Fuels a Real Estate Bubble in China The volume of lending by China's banks appears to be pumping up a real estate bubble that could have global repercussions. Time magazine reports buyers waiting on line to snap up new condos in Shanghai and Wuhan....
FCC Scrutinizes Barriers to Broadband Access in the U.S. ...
'Christmas' or 'Holiday'? Wharton Expert Says Pluralistic Route Is Best It happens every year...
A Comprehensive Study Finds No Savings from Electronic Medical Records Efforts In June, Wharton health care management professor Mark V...
A Car Company's Infamous Bureaucracy Is Being Dismantled by New Leadership When General Motors said last month that it would discontinue its formerly innovative Saturn line, many a finger was pointed at the company's moribund bureaucracy. "Saturn fell prey to the culture of GM.......
Fox Pulls the Plug on Josh Whedon's 'Dollhouse,' but Viral Marketing Teases Fans Chalk up another short-lived series on the Fox Network for envelope-pushing producer and writer Joss Whedon, whose ideas for monetizing Internet programming were featured in a Knowledge@Wharton interview in February...
Motorola Is Said to be Considering an Exit from the Quickly Evolving Set-top Box Business At a time when set-top boxes are reaching beyond their traditional role as the final gatekeeper for premium channels on cable-television systems, Motorola is reported by The Wall Street Journal to be looking ...
As Commercial Real Estate Woes Mount, More Alarms Sound The head of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta raised cautionary flags about the moribund commercial real estate market (CRE). In an address before the Urban Land Institute in Atlanta today, Dennis P....
Education Elevating the Status of Women in India's Family Businesses In India, women have always been powerful forces in politics. Indira Gandhi was probably the most dominating prime minister the country has ever had...
In a Discouraging Unemployment Report, a Rise in Temporary Positions The U.S. unemployment rate surged to 10.2% in October, according to the Labor Department. Another interesting data point in today's report: "Temporary help services added 44,000 jobs since July, including 34,000 in October....
MySpace's Fall from Favor Threatens Deal with Google In 2006, which is ancient history in the online social network world, Wharton marketing professor David Bell told Knowledge@Wharton that "there is a fad or a fashion component to all these networks. ...
Railroads May Rebound, but They Still Face Fundamental Challenges Announcing his deal to buy the 77% of the Burlington Northern Santa Fe railroad that his company does not already own, Berkshire Hathaway chairman Warren Buffett described it as "a huge bet and one that I'm very happy to make, but ...
