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...Just before he found out that the folks who paid him were seeking someone else to do it, BusinessWeek.com's editor in chief John A. Byrne wrote, "What newspapers and magazines are going through right now is a business-model problem, not a readership problem." For Business Week, actually, it's a bit of both: the magazine's total audience declined during the first six months of 2009, according to the latest MRI data, while Fortune's and Forbes' grew. Interestingly, in the same period, its website, with the much touted Business Exchange - a business-news aggregator cum social-networking...
...companies struggle to keep afloat in an age of abundance, Anderson posits a provocative solution: give your wares away gratis. An idea "as powerful as it is misunderstood," Free has become a multibillion-dollar business model tailor-made for the Internet economy. As digital-infrastructure costs approach zero, Anderson argues that Free often pays off, whether it involves giving away cell phones to hawk monthly plans or embracing piracy to spark demand for merchandise. He also explains how charging even a penny can scramble consumer psychology and sketches a blueprint for competing with juggernauts, like Google, that have harnessed...
McNair seemed like a model citizen, a married father of four who was active on the Nashville charity circuit. But when he was found lying dead in his apartment next to his mistress, Sahel Kazemi, that happy portrait was cracked forever. McNair was shot four times; Kazemi also died from a gunshot wound. Authorities confirmed that the deaths were a murder-suicide committed by Kazemi...
...starters, Congress needs to double the federal funding for these schools, according to a May report from the Brookings Institution. But, the report argues, to truly "transform our community colleges into engines of opportunity and prosperity," funding needs to be tied to performance in areas like degree completion - a model some states, including Indiana and Ohio, are already trying. The City University of New York has rigged up an experimental program that requires its community-college students to take intensive remedial courses if they aren't prepared to do college-level work. Begun in 2007 with the goal of getting...
...world's most famous community organizer, U.S. President Barack Obama. This September, a delegation of high school students from Chicago will visit Sidi Moumen to study Mazoz's methods and implement them in deprived neighborhoods back home. "The grand vision is to make his endeavor into an international model," says Marilyn Diamond, co-chair of the Chicago Casablanca Sister Cities International Program. (See pictures of Barack Obama's victory celebration in Chicago...