By: Concentrate Staff, 6/10/2010
Success in business means venturing outside Michigan, even U.S., borders. More and more companies here are learning to do business there. At our next Speaker Series event Ted Dacko, former president and CEO of Healthmedia, will talk about going global but staying local. It's TOMORROW. Join us by signing up!
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By: Constance Crump, 10/21/2009
With nearly 10K people a day encountering its paintings and sculptures U-M's hospitals might just be the biggest arts audience in the state. From patients to visitors to staff, its Gifts Of Art program provides music and culture to an amazingly diverse audience on a minuscule budget.
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By: Leia Menlove, 6/10/2009
Michigan could take a lesson from Healthmedia. From it's early struggles to find local investment to its recent purchase by Johnson & Johnson, the innovative software-as-service company has stayed committed to remaining in Ann Arbor.
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By: Kimberly Chou, 12/17/2008
Ann Arbor as an international center? You betcha. With it's growing global appeal, and proximity to the country's automotive hub, The Deuce has to keep up with its foreign-born citizens and visitors. Case in point: The growing Japanese community and the rising influence of Japanese-owned businesses.
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By: Kim North Shine, 10/22/2008
"Paging Dr. Clarinet... " For the last eight years U-M's life sciences orchestra has been bringing together eighty or so of the university's most talented doctors, dentists, researchers, technicians
and students to make beautiful music. And it doesn't matter how many letters they've got after their name. They have to audition like everyone else.
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By: Jeff Meyers, 10/1/2008
Through his research, author and U-M physician Peter Ubel has discovered that people have the uncanny ability to mispredict what will make them happy. So, what does that mean when we make decisions about healthcare or the economy? As director of the Center for Behavioral and Decision Sciences in Medicine, Ubel wrestles with questions like these every day.
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