Ecuador: Greenback Magic?
Article offers an overview of the issues involved with dollarization, especially in Latin America.
Content: Article | Author: Ian Katz | Source: BusinessWeek | Subjects: Economics, International – Americas
Online Auctions: Going, Going, Gone…Sucker!
Article discusses some limiting factors that could affect the future of online auction markets, including winner’s curse and collusion.
Content: Article | Author: Peter Coy | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: IT / Technology / E-Business
What’s a Subscriber Worth?
A Whole New Currency Game
This BusinessWeek article argues that the foreign exchange markets have shifted their dominating reliance on central bank actions (specifically interest rate interventions) to also consider equity markets and global M&A activity.
Content: Article | Author: Stanley Reed | Source: BusinessWeek | Subjects: Economics, Finance
Is This Man Building the Amazon.com of Asia?
Hiroshi Mikitani’s Rakuten cybermall is growing at Net speed.
Content: Article | Author: Irene M. Kunii | Source: BusinessWeek | Subjects: International – Asia, IT / Technology / E-Business
A Business Radical Takes on the System
This article provieds an interesting look at the French government-private sector relationship, specifically with regards to the social welfare system (at least for outsiders like me). Also profiles the man at the heart of it all, Ernest-Antoine Seilliere.
Content: Article | Authors: Carol Matlack, John Rossant | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: International – Europe
Taking Asia Digital
Interesting article discusses how the old-line family dynasties in Asia are approaching the Internet and its impact on their economies and businesses. Highlights some interesting similarities and differences with the situation in the West.
Content: Article | Author: Bruce Einhorn | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: International – Asia
Ignore That Rate Curve
Though somewhat dated (Feb ’00) this interesting article is useful for the larger question it raises about the power of the yield curve as an economic indicator.
Content: Article | Author: Mike McNamee | Source: BusinessWeek | Subjects: Economics, Finance
Online P2P Payment / Funds Transfer / Credit Card Markets
Is It an Encyclopedia or a Web Site?
An author-publisher dispute about material posted online raises tough questions about Internet copyright law.
Content: Article | Author: Olga Kharif | Source: BusinessWeek | Subjects: IT / Technology / E-Business, Legal | Industry: Law
Return of the LBO
“It may not be the glory years, but buyout shops are back, raising billions–and heading into uncharted waters.” An interesting look at the LBO world and the changes it is seeing. Discusses the idea of PIPE (private investments in public equities) and raises the question of whether LBO managers are out of their depth in the New Economy.
Content: Article | Author: Debra Sparks | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: Finance | Industry: Investing
Hatching Success
More and more B-schools are starting ”business incubators” to launch startups. Is it education or business? Well, it’s both
Content: Article | Author: Jennifer Merritt | Source: BusinessWeek | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, MBA Related
Ann Winblad
Founder of Hummer Winblad Venture Partners
Content: Thought Leader | Source: BusinessWeek | Subjects: Management, Venture Capital
Getting Old Economy Advertisers to Ante Up Online
Be honest with them: Brand building is different on the Web, where marketers must focus on users’ heads, not their hearts.
Content: Article | Author: Heather Green | Source: BusinessWeek | Subjects: Advertising, Marketing / Sales | Industry: Advertising
MBA Journals
Business Week asked 12 B-school students — six new ones for the 1999-2000 school year, added to the six who participated last year — to write accounts of their B-school experiences.
Content: Article | Source: BusinessWeek | Subjects: MBA Related, Miscellaneous MBA-related Resources
Employment Statistics – Creative Positions
Best B-Schools
Business Week’s all-too-famous rankings are found here, along with other useful features including forums, news, MBA journals, program database, profiles, comparison tools, facts & figures, admissions Q&A, career issues, and more.
Content: Online Resource | Source: BusinessWeek | Subjects: MBA Related, Miscellaneous MBA-related Resources
Inside an Internet IPO
Business Week obtained rare access to E-Loan’s IPO process and reports on it. “E-Loan’s experience going public provides a peek into what any IPO prospect might now expect in this volatile market. Its IPO is a tale of giddy highs and exhausted despair, of surprising insights both corporate and personal. It’s a story of how two founders, nearly broke less than two years ago, persevered … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Source: BusinessWeek | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Finance
BusinessWeek Online’s Frontier
This site takes a softer approach to small business news, and it has lots of good links. Its “Smart Answers” section allows you to post questions to experts for free.
Content: Online Resource | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: Small Business
What Every CEO Needs to Know About E-Business
Here’s the straight dope: There’s no turning back from the Internet Age. And that doesn’t mean E-mail or Web browsers or a Web site. It means transforming your company into a full-fledged E-business. It means reengineering and throwing out the old busines
Content: Article | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: IT / Technology / E-Business