Stories about "business"
Inside China
Tuesday, July 1, 2008 11:56 am
As China becomes a global player, Bates economist Margaret Maurer-Fazio and her students have ringside seats.
New report calls avoidance a poor green alternative
Monday, June 9, 2008 12:00 pm
A Rogers Casey Inc. researcher argues that targeted bets on "green" companies could prove superior to more sweeping strategies that purge polluters from institutional portfolios.
Balanced Beam
Tuesday, May 13, 2008 10:44 am
Behind the Ben Ayers ’99–Kirsten Walter ’00 farmhouse, barn designer and friend Brad Morse ’99, along with neighbor Bruce Bell, was cutting beams from hemlock timbers that Bell and son Nat had milled. On Morse’s T-shirt was the phrase “Measure twice, cut once.” An understatement, actually, said Morse with a smile. “I’m pretty picky about everything, so I do it more than twice.”
Bob’s Job Says Goodbye
Tuesday, May 13, 2008 10:27 am
“Your job has been outsourced to India.” I shouldn’t have been surprised — though a week earlier, at our insurance company’s Holiday Concert Celebration, the CEO had trumpeted our “three-times-the-industry growth rate” over hot hors d’oeuvres and good tidings.
Brand Width
Wednesday, May 7, 2008 12:29 pm
John Hassan ’82, senior deputy editor at ESPN.com, looks like a genial…
It's a Microworld After All
Tuesday, May 6, 2008 12:19 pm
MicroVest’s Gil Crawford ’80 takes the lead as private investors surge into the microfinance world.
Brand Width
Saturday, March 1, 2008 12:29 pm
John Hassan ’82, senior deputy editor at ESPN.com, looks like a genial…
Lecture to open economist's tenure as Stangle Professor at Bates
Thursday, December 20, 2007 11:39 am
Professor Margaret Maurer-Fazio inaugurates her tenure in the newly established Betty Doran Stangle Professorship in Applied Economics at Bates with a lecture at 4:30 p.m Friday, Feb. 1, 2008, in Chase Hall Lounge, 56 Campus Ave.
Four appointed to Bates Board of Trustees
Thursday, October 25, 2007 10:55 am
President Elaine Tuttle Hansen has announced four appointments to the Bates College Board of Trustees: Alison R. Bernstein of New York, N.Y., H. Scott Bierman of Northfield, Minn., Scott D. Freeman of Newton, Mass., and Kathleen M. Whelan of Boston, Mass.
National business journalist shares spiritual journey
Wednesday, January 3, 2007 4:24 pm
Paul Solman, business and economics correspondent for the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer since 1985, will speak Thursday, Jan. 11, at the Edmund S. Muskie Archives, 70 Campus Ave., as part of "Spiritual Sojourners," a series sponsored by the Office of the Chaplain at Bates College.