Word: consumerization
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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You might not think that a multibillion-dollar deal between two European banks would affect your own (considerably more modest) financial situation. But it just might. Thursday, Germany's Deutsche Bank and Dresdner Bank announced plans to join in a "merger of equals" to form Deutsche Bank AG. The new...
Fearing a consumer backlash, New Zealand King Salmon, a major producer of Chinook salmon--the largest Pacific salmon--announced last week that it was suspending its gene-modification experiments. Entis, by contrast, believes he can win acceptance of his supersalmon through public education. "We have to show we have nothing...
Mostly, burgeoning consumer debt is about living well: funding a car or vacation. But in some cases--a fast-growing share, I'd wager--it's about people leveraging bets in the stock market in pursuit of their million. No one knows how much has been borrowed to play the...
Sources: Good News--Amer. Association for the Advancement of Science; Nature Neuroscience (3/00). Bad--J.A.M.A. (2/23/00); U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission and National Safe Kids Campaign
Time spent developing consumer products is time not spent reading a great work, or pursuing some purely academic project. Given the busy schedules of most students, any efforts directed toward building a business will undoubtedly be diverted from more scholarly endeavors. Defenders of the TECH insist that entrepreneurship is a...