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What Changes To Gerrymandering Means For The Business Sector
Thursday, September 7, 2017 - 2:54pm | 470Beyond the irrepressible ire of rural America, Republicans boasted another edge going into the 2016 elections. According to Associated Press analyses, gerrymandering ultimately fixed the Congressional composition. After the 2010 census, the GOP had redrawn district lines and reconfigured voting...
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Georgetown Wins University Investment Challenge
Friday, May 5, 2017 - 12:55pm | 363Students at Georgetown University were crowned with the title as being the best investment managers. University students in both the United States and abroad took part in the challenge to manage a portfolio of real money. The competition was held in conjunction with Peeptrade and judged by a panel...
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Will Hulu Raise Its Price After Netflix And Amazon Prime?
Friday, April 25, 2014 - 10:02am | 477Higher prices are impacting two of the largest streaming video sites. Will Hulu be next? Earlier this spring Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) announced that it would raise the price of its streaming video and two-day shipping service, Amazon Prime, from $79 to $99 per year. That price increase has now gone...
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Netflix CEO Reed Hastings 'Learned His Lesson' After First Price Hike
Thursday, April 24, 2014 - 11:12am | 690Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) CEO Reed Hastings was in hot water when his company decided to increase its monthly service fee in 2011. Hastings also attempted to split his company in two by launching a new DVD service, Qwikster. After hearing what consumers thought of the idea, Netflix canceled those...
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Some Say Pre-Thanksgiving Sales Push May Not Be Effective
Tuesday, November 19, 2013 - 12:32pm | 634Black Friday, as the official start of the holiday shopping season, is over. Thanks to a shortened holiday calendar with only four weeks between Thanksgiving and Christmas (not to mention the fact Hanukkah begins November 27), many retailers had already planned an early start to this important...
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U.S. Utilities Anticipate Negative Effects From Obama's New Climate Policies
Thursday, June 27, 2013 - 2:47pm | 329On Tuesday at Georgetown University, President Barack Obama outlined the first-ever set of U.S. governmental plans to regulate corporate environmental footprints. As reported by the Wall Street Journal, the president proposed to place limits on carbon dioxide emissions from coal-based power...
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Deputy Secretary Neal S. Wolin Remarks at Georgetown University McDonough School of Business
Monday, October 25, 2010 - 2:55pm | 2950Thank you, Mark, for that kind introduction. I'm delighted to be here. I'd like to thank Dean Daly for organizing this conference and for giving me the opportunity to speak to you today about financial reform implementation. The financial crisis was caused not by one gap or breakdown in our...