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Recent Articles about University of Miami

Best Courses 2011: The Launch Pad

A novel program run at a college career center  Read more

Linda Steckley

Age: 45 Hometown: West Chester, Pa. Undergraduate Degree: Dickinson College Business School: School of Business Administration, Universi...  Read more

The 10 Best Entrepreneurship Courses of 2011

University courses in entrepreneurship are better—more useful, more real, more likely to produce actual companies—than they have ever been. Here are 10 w...  Read more

How to Open a Business in Miami

Think you can make it in the Magic City? Here's how to find growth zones, attract a loyal following, and get your game on.  Read more

The Case for Dress Codes

Doctors who wear casual or revealing clothing are a turn-off to patients, according to research cited in an article in today's New York Times. "In a study...  Read more

Increasing Productivity with Gratitude

Yes, you heard me right: increasing productivity with gratitude is, indeed, a highly effective process. Why? In a nutshell, giving and receiving thanks in...  Read more

A Messaging System for All Smartphones

Tyler McIntyre, a sophomore triple-major at the University of Miami, is bootstrapping his third tech company: a multi-platform chat system.  Read more

How The Survey Was Conducted

Early this year, we set out to survey members of the M.B.A. class of '87 with the goal of gaining some insight into who they are, what they believe, and w...  Read more

Universities: Your New Best Friend

For resource-hungry entrepreneurs, the explosion of university-based business-development programs comes as sweet relief in tight economic times. From Ann Ar...  Read more

The Two (Pseudo)-Live Crew

From the sunny campus that helped make Luther Campbell a 'hood-hold' name, and ironically, an accidental first amendment Read more

Should You Drop Out?

Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and Steve Jobs all dropped out of college. But does that mean you should, too? We staged a debate between two college entreprene...  Read more

Entrepreneurship Education for All

Why it's time to take entrepreneurship training out of business schools.  Read more

Revitalizing the American Dream

Our highly practical, eminently doable, totally reasonable, 16-point plan to create thousands (upon thousands) of new companies and a million new jobs.  Read more

The Classroom vs. the Real World

For years, business schools have been criticized for focusing too much on analysis and not enough on practical experience. But as more and more students turn...  Read more

Getting Behind The Camera

Creating a single videotape can cost less than $50 or more than $5,000, depending on how much you want to do yourself, and how professional a result you r...  Read more

Breaking Away

This year's crop of M.B.A.s has more in mind than investment banking and high-paying consulting jobs  Read more

Why Products Fail

It is a report with implications that should reverberate throughout the American economy. It looks at a new industry and asks an old question: What are the m...  Read more

Will Success Spoil Jerry Gorde?

On the road to the revolution, a young radical took a detour and wound up as CEO of a $6-million company.  Read more

The Reluctant Entrepreneurs

Are American blacks still stuck on the bottom rung of the economic ladder because so few start businesses of their own?  Read more