AUBURN HILLS - Have you felt the pain of seeing your priorities get pushed below the daily fires? Is your business falling short of its full potential? If you are a business owner or top leader and answered yes to these questions, you are not alone. A staggering 95 percent of business owners struggle to
ANN ARBOR - With a $25 million grant from an anonymous donor, the University of Michigan will begin training doctors in Africa in reproductive health services not widely available to many women living in remote areas of the continent. The grant will allow faculty at the U-M Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology to create a
DETROIT - Wayne State University?s Innovation Fellows Program is cultivating the next generation of chief scientific officers and entrepreneurial scientists for local high-tech industry. The program is supported by the New Economy Initiative (NEI) for Southeast Michigan and is led by Bramdon Dogwill, project manager of innovation programs in WSU?s Technology Commercialization Office. The first
LANSING - A team from the Grand Rapids area recently took home the grand prize and $15,000 at Code Michigan. The second annual event began Friday and ran through Sunday, Oct. 5. Residents from around the state competed at three different locations in Detroit, Newaygo and Marquette. First, second and third place awards were presented
LANSING - Governor Rick Snyder appears to be solidifying a consistent lead over his Democratic opponent, Mark Schauer, in two polls that came out Tuesday showing a developing trend of Snyder leading Schauer with a percentage outside the margin of error. In both polls, one by Lansing-based Marketing Resource Group, and the second by the
AUBURN HILLS - The Macomb-OU INCubator announced a pitch competition that will award $20,000 in cash and in-kind prizes to Michigan small businesses. Prizes: First Place: $8,500 (cash) | Mac-OU INC service package Second Place: $1,500 (cash) | Mac-OU INC cubicle (one-year lease) | consultation with Butzel Long (5 hours) | strategic-planning session with Advicoach
LANSING - Republican hopes of finally winning a U.S. Senate seat in Michigan appear in serious danger of vanishing with a raft of new polls in the last week showing Democratic U.S. Rep. Gary Peters opening up a sizeable lead over Republican Terri Land and the decision of the National Republican Senatorial Committee to pull
TROY - Automation Alley will welcome speakers from Microsoft, Dell and AT&T for a lunch ?n? learn event called Mobile Computing for the Enterprise Oct. 29, from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., at its headquarters in Troy. Organized by Automation Alley?s Technology Committee, this event is open to Automation Alley members and non-members. The event
ANN ARBOR - The University of Michigan has established a new long-term partnership with Bloomberg to release the U-M Surveys of Consumers starting in January 2015 on a non-exclusive basis. "I am very pleased with this new agreement, which provides for the simultaneous release of the monthly consumer sentiment data to the public and to
DETROIT - There was a popular TV commercial back in the 1990s that featured two security guards on patrol in a scary cement tunnel. Cue the sound of running footsteps and the dramatic chase music as our guys desperately pursue an unknown intruder through the tunnel. Then they stop, a look of satisfaction spreads across