Education
Martin Center column probes MBA programs
Jason Fertig writes for the Martin Center about the merits of master’s of business administration programs. Once a hot degree, the MBA is now being questioned by more and more…
Master of Business Administration
master's degree in business leadership
Health Care
Direct Primary Care for Local Governments
Local governments across North Carolina, like other employers, are wrestling with the question of how to provide quality health care to their employees in a cost-effective manner. This is particularly…
Health Care
Medical Care Doesn’t Have To Be Expensive
View in your browser. Obamacare’s third annual enrollment period for health insurance is officially underway. Americans who do not have access to employer-sponsored health insurance, are self-employed, or have been…
Liberty
What’s being taught in business school?
Many MBA programs have been criticized as offering little educational value. Often, the faculty members have scant business experience themselves, but are just academics who preach theories about business. That’s…
Education
Tailoring an MBA program to online students
People don’t have to take two years out of their lives these days to move to a college campus and study to get a master’s degree in business administration. Business…
Education
Innovation challenging traditional higher ed structures for MBAs
The latest Bloomberg Businessweek documents interesting changes in the traditional approach to higher education in business. When Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business launched an online MBA program in 1999,…
Liberty
Soon The Left Will Target Them As Bad Guys Who Don’t Deserve Their Wealth
Top business schools are focusing on helping MBA students plan and fund new businesses. The Wall Street Journal reports here on the trend in business incubator programs across the country…
Liberty
Paying Attention To The Practical Value Of A Degree
It’s not just our governor who thinks higher education should be more closely aligned with job prospects and tangible, marketable skills. Business schools have realized the value of an MBA…
Liberty
Another Sad, Ongoing Saga
An issue that has been in the news a lot is the demise of New River Behavioral HealthCare. The service had been in business 45 years, treating people with mental…
Liberty
Council Hits Snooze Button on BID
A drum beat wildly amongst other sounds audible in the chambers of Asheville City Council. I supposed former vice mayor, Chris Peterson, had hired a bunch of fake Occupiers to…
Elections & Public Integrity
Romney as a problem solver
The latest Bloomberg Businessweek takes former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney to task for bashing Preaident Obama’s Ivy League background during campaign speeches, despite the fact that Romney holds two degrees…
Liberty
Fiction vs. Reality – or vice versa
“I’ve got an idea that should allow geothermal energy to be harvested more efficiently than existing mechanisms,” said Dr. David Rockenhurst. “What’s more, it can be set up with minimal…