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March 25, 2011 | ||
Insider NewsletterA weekly summary of the best in Bloomberg Businessweek and Businessweek.com | ||
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| CONTAMINATION The Future of Fukushima Prefecture In the best case, hundreds of thousands of evacuees will spend months away from home CRISIS IN JAPAN Rebuilding Japan, Without the Graft Can the government rein in the country's big construction firms, or zenekon, which still wield an outsize influence? COMPANIES & INDUSTRIES Wal-Mart Faces the Big Box of Class Actions The Supreme Court will soon decide the fate of a million-worker class action against the retailer GIGAOM • From GigaOm Will Pricing, Flash Sell RIM's PlayBook? The tablet computer from Research In Motion is priced to compete with Apple's iPad and can run Adobe Flash, but question marks include battery life and apps Best Buy CEO Reboots to Regain Sales Best Buy Co. is rebooting—again—to regain sales from Wal-Mart and Amazon Groupon Operating Chief Rob Solomon Steps Down The departure leaves a hole in the executive ranks of the world's largest coupon site as it prepares for an initial public offering VIEWPOINT SEC Should Back Off Markets for Startups' Shares The development of private marketplaces to trade shares of pre-IPO companies is a natural and needed financial innovation, says Scott Shane SMART ANSWERS How Small Businesses Can Boost Profits Focus on technology, cost-cutting, and cross-selling, says author and consultant Patricia Sigmon VIEWPOINT Three Simple Spring Training Tips for Your Office Think of baseball as an example and then take a swing at revitalizing the team of workers who report to you EUROPEAN B-SCHOOLS Social Media Burst into Europe's B-Schools European MBA programs are using blogs, wikis, social networking, and other Web 2.0 tools to link students and explore new business strategies EUROPEAN B-SCHOOLS Study the World for a European MBA B-schools in Europe are setting up partnerships and satellite campuses in Asia and the Mideast to give students a jump in global business CULTURE Billionaires Splurge on Middle-East Art as Dubai Fair Rebounds From Slump Business at Art Dubai was up as buyers shrugged off worries about political unrest and natural disasters EATING AND DRINKING More Silk, Less Slurp, Alcohol as Vintners Class Up Pinot Noir: Elin McCoy A small band of passionate California pinot makers are championing pure fruit elegance and silky-textured finesse Cantaloupe’s Seed Device Keeps Vending Machines Well-Stocked The Seed fits easily into vending machines and transmits sales data to a remote server, which turns the information into online reports that vending companies can use to replenish their machines more efficiently THE NEXT BIG THING Online Education, With a Low-Cost Twist Western Governors University delivers online education at a fraction of the cost of for-profit players, and cash-strapped states are taking notice VIEWPOINT A College Degree Is Still Worth It Sure, it costs more, and technology is threatening high-paying jobs. But the Great Recession shows postsecondary education is more valuable than ever Dimon Makes $20 Billion AT&T Loan Deal in Bid to Be Dominant JPMorgan Chase's role in AT&T's bid for T-Mobile USA helps CEO Jamie Dimon cement the firm's spot as the nation's top M&A bank Japan's Quake Is Buffett's Buy Sign William Pesek says that's one of the early lessons we can learn from the recent earthquake
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