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| Obesity: Reviving the Promise of Leptin
The 1995 discovery of leptin, an appetite-suppressing hormone, generated great hopes for an effective obesity drug. But hopes dimmed when obese people proved to be leptin-resistant. Now, researchers from Children's Hospital Boston have, for the first time, re-sensitized the brain to leptin, using FDA-approved drugs. In mice, this led to significant weight loss when combined with leptin treatment. (Embargo expired on 06-Jan-2009 at 12:00 ET.)
Cell Metabolism | 06-Jan-2009
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| BIZ | Law Center Presents 'Global Financial Crisis for Dummies'
For visual evidence of just how bad the global financial crisis has become, visit the Web site of the University of Iowa Center for International Finance and Development. If you dare. The page has a meticulously detailed timeline of events leading up to the economic collapse, and it highlights news reports of every struggling investment bank, failed mortgage company, missed-earnings warning, lousy housing report, cut dividend, and various other portents of impending financial doom. And that's just up to December 2007, before things really got bad. | 06-Jan-2009
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| BIZ | Pharmacy Pricing Expert Who Predicted 2004 Flu Vaccine Shortage Builds Thriving Consulting Business
A University of Mississippi pharmacy graduate, who gained national attention by predicting the 2004 flu vaccine shortage two years before it hit, is running his own successful business, with international implications in pharmacy pricing. Medical Marketing Economics, which deals with research and pricing strategies in the pharmaceutical industry, is enjoying phenomenal growth from its headquarters in Oxford, Miss. | 26-Dec-2008
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| BIZ | Franchising Index Weathers Recession in Third Quarter
The Rosenberg Center Franchise 50 Index weathered the brutal correction under way in the financial markets far better than the S&P 500 in the third quarter of 2008, dipping a mere .4 percent compared with a 9 percent drop in the S&P 500. Buffalo Wild Wings led the Franchise 50 Index with a 62.3 percent increase in market value. | 23-Dec-2008
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| BIZ | Iowa Electronic Markets Offers Lessons in Box Office Prediction Markets
A division of the bond trading firm Cantor Fitzgerald has announced a plan to start a real-money movie box office futures exchange. The University of Iowa's Iowa Electronic Markets has been operating a similar real-money box office market since 1995, and its coordinator thinks traders on Cantor's proposed market will have their work cut out in finding a way to make money.
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| BIZ | How President-elect Obama and CEOs Can Deliver Change Via the Internet
Weekly YouTube videos posted by President-elect Obama are missing their mark if change is the goal according to Jackson Nickerson, a professor at Washington University in St. Louis. Nickerson, a professor of organization and strategy at the Olin Business School, has developed a set of web-based techniques that allow executives to lead and accelerate change within their organizations.
Expert available | 19-Dec-2008
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| BIZ | Experts on the Holiday Retail Market
Faculty experts at the University of California, Berkeley’s Haas School of Business are available to comment. on topics relating to holiday shopping, the retail market and consumer trends.
Expert available | 19-Dec-2008
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| BIZ | A Profitable Holiday Shopping Season Depends on Manufacturers Providing Retailers with Incentives to Forecast Demand, Says Prof
Retailers may not have predicted an official recession for this year’s holiday shopping season, but they can make better future forecasting decisions, according to Terry Taylor, associate professor at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business. | 19-Dec-2008
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| BIZ | Burger King at Forefront of Viral Marketing with New Men’s Fragrance ‘Flame’
Burger King’s marketing campaign of a new men’s fragrance “Flame” that has a partially clad “King” looking seductively while laying on a fur rug in front of a fireplace may be a bit on the creepy side but it shows that the hamburger chain is at the forefront of viral marketing, according to a University of New Hampshire communication professor.
Expert available | 18-Dec-2008
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| Serving Others a Key to Effective Leadership
Recently-published research by a Valparaiso University business professor and undergraduate student indicates that stewardship, community-building and other traits associated with servant leadership may give a boost to the effectiveness of leaders.
Review of Business Research | 17-Dec-2008
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