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Which MBA? The Economist: Weatherhead School of Management’s full-time MBA program made The Economist’s 2012 list of the 100 best MBAs, appearing at No. 100 in the world and No. 47 among degrees offered by business schools located in the U.S. The rankings are determined in part by survey responses…

University research budgets hang in the balance (subscription required) Crain’s Cleveland Business: If the federal government fails to create a budget deal by the end of the year, research budgets at universities will be cut dramatically. If Congress can come up with its own way to reduce the…

Looming tax hikes ideastream: Tax cuts enacted under Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama are set to expire next year, including a temporary 2 percent payroll tax holiday. Kathryn Lavelle, the Ellen and Dixon Long Professor of World Affairs, joined The Sound of Ideas to discuss whether…

When job-creation engines stop at just one The New York Times: For years, start-ups have been doing mores with fewer employees, which has implications for the work force. “There’s this idea that we can somehow rely on entrepreneurship to get us out of the job crisis,” said Scott Shane, the A.…

Ohio: Staring into the face of change American Public Media: In a look at Ohio’s economic history and future, Marketplace went to John Grabowski, the Krieger-Mueller Associate Professor in Applied History. "We have to get used to a smaller city, we have to get used to a city with empty spaces, we…

Big Bird will haunt Mitt Romney The Washington Post: When Gov. Mitt Romney mentioned cutting subsidies to PBS, it opened up an opportunity for President Barack Obama’s campaign, according to one Washington Post blogger: moms. The blog cites an article by Amy Przeworski, assistant professor of…

Case Western Reserve University's library receives $5 million gift The Plain Dealer: Kelvin Smith Library received a $5 million gift from a donor who wished to remain anonymous, marking the single largest gift in the library’s history. The funds will be used to buy books and journals, update…

AT&T makes $200K donation to Upward Bound at Case WKYC: AT&T announced it would make a $200,000 commitment to the Upward Bound program at Case Western Reserve. The program, which started in 1966, helps prepare low-income and potential first-generation college students for success following…

Galaxy formation: The new Milky Way Nature: Astronomers argue about the sequence of events during the Milky Way’s birth, but all agree it involves dark matter. At some point, dark-matter subhalos would have pulled in enough gas to form stars and become dwarf galaxies, which eventually would be…

Artificial inspiration Nature: About 65 million people live with chronic pulmonary obstruction disease, many of whom require lung transplants. Relatively few lungs are donated, and so new technologies that serve the same purpose are needed. Joseph Potkay, research assistant professor in the…