EAST LANSING - 64 alumni of the Michigan State University Broad College of Business Executive Master's of Business Administration anniversary were nominated for making a significant and lasting impact on the program, their industry, or their communities. Only ten were selected, two from each decade. Alumni of the Decade Honorees are:
CUPERTINO, Ca. - A key component of the Apple Watch made by one of two suppliers was found to be defective, prompting Apple to limit the availability of the highly anticipated new product, people familiar with the matter told the Wall Street Journal. The part involved is the so-called taptic engine, designed by Apple to
DETROIT - NextEnergy has awarded $295,000 in Michigan Accelerating Technology Energy Grant funds to three Michigan companies - Navitas Advanced Solutions Group, REL and Temper. The MATch Energy Grant provides matching funds, or cost-share, as well as funding for follow-on commercialization projects, to eligible Michigan businesses and universities applying for federal funding in the area
DETROIT - Challenge Detroit will host its fourth-year finalists for interviews with 25 host companies at the Fort Shelby Hotel in Detroit May 7 and 8. The new Fellows will be announced in June and start the program in September. Finalists will be seeking participation in Challenge Detroit, a program that provides people with the
LANSING - Michigan's University Research Corridor - the University of Michigan, Michigan State University and Wayne State University - contributed $16.8 Billion to Michigan's economy, a 50 percent increase since 2007, a new report contends, bested only by a cluster of universities in Southern California. "With a more than 50 percent increase in these
GRAND RAPIDS - JJ Caldwell from the Rusty Bucket Restaurant and Tavern in Northville won this year's top award from the Michigan Restaurant Association for going above and beyond to create a fun, hospital environment for guests, the award reads. Caldwell took home the Front of the House Restaurant Employee of the Year on April
SOUTHFIELD - Eighty robotics teams that have advanced from nine Michigan qualifying events will compete in the Robofest Michigan Championship at Lawrence Technological University on May 2. The opening ceremony in the Ridler Field House on the campus at 21000 West 10 Mile Road will be at 9 a.m., and the awards ceremony will be
EGHAM, United Kingdom - Device vendors will have to raise the prices of PCs to offset the effects of currency devaluation, according to Gartner, which predicted prices of PCs in the Eurozone and Japan, in particular, will increase by up to 10 percent during 2015. "We are currently seeing the sharp appreciation of
GRAND RAPIDS - The West Michigan Sustainable Business Forum will discuss on May 11 at a lunch-and-learn the huge amount of energy that typically scientific laboratories expend at major universities - typically four to six times as much energy as typical office buildings. Harvard University, for instance, estimates that its labs account for
WASHINGTON DC - President Barack Obama wants Detroit's Big Three automakers to build more fuel-efficient vehicles getting ahead of future vehicle demand, rather than trying to catch up. "Detroit needs to be focused on capturing, you know, the lion's share of the market for fuel-efficient cars. And you know, they worked with us to double