Selling health tips to globe trotters

While running health services at the University of Baltimore in the early 1990s, Fran Lessans met a law student who was petrified about the prospect of attending her mother-in-law’s funeral in Ghana. The young woman had visited the country once before but ended up getting sick and spending two weeks in the hospital. For the funeral trip, she’d done her homework and gotten the right shots, Lessans recalls

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The hydrogen car fights back

The “Valley of Death,” in auto-industry-speak, is a metaphorical desert where emerging technologies reside while car executives figure out which of the experiments ought to make their way into actual cars.

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Rust Belt Shine: Pittsburgh

“I’ll be disappointed if you’re still in Pittsburgh.”

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The best places to launch a business

We’ve all heard the hype: In our wireless world, your company can thrive from a loft in Brooklyn or a houseboat in Hawaii. Where you are doesn’t matter, because we’re all on the same vast, virtual plane

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The man behind 2009’s biggest bank bust

Just after 9 a.m. on a humid Friday in late September, the trustees of Auburn University gather in a campus hotel conference room for their first meeting of the new school year. Even this early in the day there’s a bit of electricity in the air.

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Stanford University looks to sell $1 billion in assets

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How much risk can you stand?

Wise investing isn’t simply about your brain power; you also need a sense of how strong your stomach is — of how much market turbulence you can take before you sell in a panic.

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Place your bids: Silverdome goes on the block

The hard-hit city of Pontiac, Mich., is auctioning off the Silverdome, a stadium of more than 80,000 seats that once played host to the Super Bowl.

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Jack Welch talks about his health scare

After 92 days in the hospital battling discitis — a spinal infection so serious that the doctors were worried he might not make it and newspapers began preparing his obituary — former GE CEO Jack Welch, 73, has finally gone home.

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How to innovate: A step-by-step guide

The funeral business might not be the first place you’d look for inspiring new products or services. But in recessionary times, necessity drives invention all across the economy

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