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SLO group helps women in technology

By   /  Friday, January 8th, 2016  /  Central Coast, Latest news, Technology  /  Comments Off on SLO group helps women in technology

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It’s déjà vu for investment bankers

By   /  Friday, January 8th, 2016  /  Latest news, Op/Eds  /  Comments Off on It’s déjà vu for investment bankers

We’ve been there before. The movie “The Big Short” explains how and why the financial services industry helped to bring down our economy during 2007-08. Banks took home mortgage loans that were made based on shaky credit and pooled them into a basket of mortgage-backed securities (MBS) that were backed by the homes. These were Read More →

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Tri-county startups sizzle with potential for 2016

By   /  Friday, January 1st, 2016  /  Latest news, right, Small Business, Technology, Top Stories  /  Comments Off on Tri-county startups sizzle with potential for 2016

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Cal Poly SLO offers new master’s degree in business analytics

By   /  Friday, December 18th, 2015  /  Central Coast, Higher Education, Latest news, middle, Top Stories  /  Comments Off on Cal Poly SLO offers new master’s degree in business analytics

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Corporate tax inversions unethical

By   /  Friday, December 11th, 2015  /  Op/Eds, Opinion  /  Comments Off on Corporate tax inversions unethical

You say you have a U.S. corporation and want to reduce corporate income taxes? Agree to be acquired by an Irish company and re-incorporate in Ireland. You’ll only pay 12.5 percent corporate income taxes rather than the 35 percent rate in the U.S. But wait. There’s more. Ireland recently announced that it reduced the rate Read More →

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Tri-county accounting graduates in demand

By   /  Friday, December 4th, 2015  /  Central Coast, Columns, Higher Education, Latest news, Top Stories  /  Comments Off on Tri-county accounting graduates in demand

Universities aren’t always great at adapting to the workforce needs of today and tomorrow. Journalism schools across the land, for example, still churn out thousands of graduates every year —  bright-eyed, but unable to find jobs, and soon forced to move back in with mom and start freelancing. But at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, Read More →

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Corporate social responsibility on hold when it comes to outrageous drug prices

By   /  Thursday, November 19th, 2015  /  Health Care & Life Science, Op/Eds  /  Comments Off on Corporate social responsibility on hold when it comes to outrageous drug prices

Imagine you just went to your local pharmacy and were told that the cost of a life-saving drug was $22,500 for 30 tablets to treat AIDS or another infectious disease. Well, if you need the drug Daraprim, that is what you would have to pay. Turing Pharmaceuticals purchased the right to Darprim this past August Read More →