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		<title>Prof featured on Forbes.com
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:32:00 EDT</pubDate>
		<link>http://www.forbes.com/2009/11/03/creative-disruption-forbes-opinons-walmart.html</link>
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		<title>WVU economics professor asserts new theory on gangs and violence
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:32:00 EDT</pubDate>
		<link>http://be.wvu.edu/multimedia/gangsandviolence.htm</link>
		<description><![CDATA[West Virginia University’s College of Business and Economics professor Russell Sobel has received the 2009 Georgescu-Roegen Prize for the best academic article published in the Southern Economic Journal.]]></description>
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		<title>Thinking about a logo change? Think again.
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:32:00 EDT</pubDate>
		<link>http://be.wvu.edu/multimedia/logochange.htm</link>
		<description><![CDATA[When Marketing Professor Michael Walsh saw an article in the Oct. 3 issue of Newsweek magazine, he just shook his head.]]></description>
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		<title>West Virginia’s Economy to be Examined at Nov. 11 Conference in Charleston
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:48:00 EDT</pubDate>
		<link>http://www.be.wvu.edu/news_events/outlook11-11/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[The DOW average has broken the 10,000 mark and oil is back over $80/barrel, and many economists believe the recession is over. Where is the national and West Virginia headed and what are some of the challenges facing the state?
To answer this, West Virginia University’s Bureau of Business and Economic Research will issue its 2010 economic forecast for West Virginia at its 16h annual Economic Outlook Conference, 8 a.m. to 12:15 p.m., Nov. 11, at the Charleston Embassy Suites Hotel.]]></description>
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		<title>WVU football legends, team owners to discuss "The Business of Sports"
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:37:00 EDT</pubDate>
		<link>http://be.wvu.edu/news_events/besports/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Oliver Luck, two-time Academic All-American who led the Mountaineers to victory in the 1981 Peach Bowl and Sam Huff, NFL Hall of Fame star, will join two team owners for a discussion on “The Business of Sports” Wednesday, Nov. 4, at 6 p.m. at the Erickson Alumni Center.]]></description>
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		<title>Prof. to take business students to Africa to help in HIV/AIDS fight
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:37:00 EDT</pubDate>
		<link>http://be.wvu.edu/news_events/neidermeyerbook/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Neidermeyer’s book defines the disease and explores its history, but its main point is what it will take to defeat it. The authors suggest that the AIDS epidemic will not be quelled by financial aid alone. She and her co-author, Dr. Roger W. Hoerl of GE Global Research and Development in New York, believe the AIDS crisis can be surmounted, and the title of their book Use What You Have points to the solution.
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		<title>WVU professors: Health-care reform should start with better health literacy
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:37:00 EDT</pubDate>
		<link>http://be.wvu.edu/multimedia/healthcare.htm</link>
		<description><![CDATA[The health-care reform debate has raged all summer, with lots of arguments pro and con, and much information – some useful, some not.]]></description>
		<guid>http://be.wvu.edu/multimedia/healthcare.htm</guid>
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		<title>WVU alum to give free talk
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 10:42:00 EDT</pubDate>
		<link>http://be.wvu.edu/news_events/alumtalk/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Philip Antoon, Managing Director and the Global Practice Leader of Marsh’s Valuation Services practice, will speak about “Valuation of Intangible Assets” at 9 a.m. on Friday, Oct. 16 in Room 126 Ming Hsieh Hall.]]></description>
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		<title>Annual student business plan competition kicks off
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		<pubDate>Tue, 6 Oct 2009 10:32:00 EDT</pubDate>
		<link>http://be.wvu.edu/news_events/bpc09/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[MORGANTOWN, W.Va. —The West Virginia University Entrepreneurship Center in the College of Business and Economics has launched the eighth annual Student Business Plan Competition.]]></description>
		<guid>http://be.wvu.edu/news_events/bpc09/</guid>
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		<title>Mylan cofounder talks about Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal and Daring to Dream
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 11:09:00 EDT</pubDate>
		<link>http://be.wvu.edu/news_events/mylancofounder/index.htm</link>
		<description><![CDATA[A businessman who has been successful in endeavors ranging from pharmaceutical research to golf tournaments spoke recently on 'Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal and Daring to Dream' at the Waterfront Place Hotel, Morgantown, W.Va.]]></description>
		<guid>http://be.wvu.edu/news_events/mylancofounder/index.htm</guid>
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		<title>Marketing professor gives tips to help auto dealerships</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 16:30:00 EDT</pubDate>
		<link>http://wvutoday.wvu.edu/n/2009/08/19/7965</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Car dealerships are being cut everywhere, including in West Virginia, but dealers can protect their businesses, according to a recently published journal article by West Virginia University economics professor, Dr. James Brown.]]></description>
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		<title>Harrison County unemployment rate up, but below state and nation, while prices of grocery items fluctuate
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 16:30:00 EDT</pubDate>
		<link>http://be.wvu.edu/news_events/unemployment_rate/index.htm</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Harrison County lost 190 jobs from the second quarter of 2008 to the same quarter of 2009, which translates into an annual rate of decline of -0.5 percent, according to a new study released in the Harrison County Economic Monitor, a publication of the WVU College of Business and Economics. This publication is sponsored by the Harrison County Development Authority. ]]></description>
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		<title>Prof's book explores media's role</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 15:32:00 EDT</pubDate>
		<link>http://be.wvu.edu/multimedia/profsbook.htm</link>
		<description><![CDATA[A West Virginia University professor has just published Media, Development, and Institutional Change, a book that investigates the media’s critical role in institutional change and economic development.]]></description>
		<guid>http://be.wvu.edu/multimedia/profsbook.htm</guid>
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		<title>Medicaid research report issued in Charleston</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 14:30:00 EDT</pubDate>
		<link>http://be.wvu.edu/news_events/medicaid_research/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[The West Virginia University College of Business and Economics, has released the Mountain Health Choices Beneficiary Report, a performance review of the Mountain Health Choices program.  Mountain Health Choices is a federally approved program within the Bureau for Medical Services at the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources.]]></description>
		<guid>http://be.wvu.edu/news_events/medicaid_research/</guid>
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		<title>Wall St. Journal profiles grad, Silicon Valley CEO</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 14:49:00 EDT</pubDate>
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		<title>NY Times looks at 1974 graduate</title>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 14:48:00 EDT</pubDate>
		<link>http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/07/23/business/AP-US-Reynolds-Bio-Box.html?_r=2</link>
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		<title>German students experience Morgantown, US</title>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 14:50:00 EDT</pubDate>
		<link>http://be.wvu.edu/news_events/germanstudents/index.htm</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Twenty-one students from Muenster, Germany, are visiting the United States for four weeks, studying collective bargaining and negotiations and sharpening their English skills at the WVU College of Business and Economics.]]></description>
		<guid>http://be.wvu.edu/news_events/germanstudents/index.htm</guid>
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		<title>Interim dean to Tweet at fraud conference</title>
		<pubDate>Thu, 9 Jul 2009 15:27:00 EDT</pubDate>
		<link>http://wvutoday.wvu.edu/news/page/7877/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[West Virginia University College of Business and Economics Interim Dean Dr. William Trumbull will attend the 2009 Fraud and Forensic Accounting Education Conference July 9-11 in Las Vegas and will use the online social networking mode Twitter to connect with others.]]></description>
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		<title>WVU B &amp; E students test high on national exam</title>
		<link>http://be.wvu.edu/news_events/highscores/index.htm</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Test scores are in for 54 WVU College of Business and Economics students who graduated last month. The students placed in the top 95 percent of 83,323 students from 564 U.S. business schools.]]></description>
		<guid>http://be.wvu.edu/news_events/highscores/index.htm</guid>
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		<title>WVU professor aims for state's prosperity in Rule of Law</title>
		<link>http://www.be.wvu.edu/multimedia/sobelbook.htm</link>
		<description><![CDATA[The Rule of Law, edited by West Virginia University’s College of Business and Economics Professor Russell Sobel, continues a conversation started by Unleashing Capitalism: Why Prosperity Stops at West Virginia Border and How to Fix it.]]></description>
		<guid>http://www.be.wvu.edu/multimedia/sobelbook.htm</guid>
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		<title>WVU accounting professor receives innovation award</title>
		<link>http://www.be.wvu.edu/multimedia/riley.htm</link>
		<description><![CDATA[A professor who helped bring the forensic accounting program to West Virginia University is the recipient of a national honor.]]></description>
		<guid>http://www.be.wvu.edu/multimedia/riley.htm</guid>
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		<title>Demographer liaison to U.S. Census Bureau</title>
		<link>http://www.be.wvu.edu/news_events/demographer/index.htm</link>
		<description><![CDATA[West Virginia University’s College of Business & Economics recently hired the state’s first and only demographer.]]></description>
		<guid>http://www.be.wvu.edu/news_events/demographer/index.htm</guid>
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		<title>Bayer VP to give business college graduation address</title>
		<link>http://be.wvu.edu/news_events/commencement/index.htm</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Susanna Wayt, vice president, human resources, Americas, for Bayer MaterialScience LLC and 1981 graduate of the WVU College of Business and Economics will be the <A href="http://be.wvu.edu/commencement/index.htm">commencement</A> speaker for May 16 at 6 p.m. at the WVU Coliseum.]]></description>
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		<title>WVU College of Business and Economics Class of 2009 May Commencement</title>
		<link>http://be.wvu.edu/commencement/index.htm</link>
		<description><![CDATA[&nbsp;]]></description>
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		<title>Students win $20,000 in Business Plan Competition</title>
		<link>http://be.wvu.edu/multimedia/businessplan.htm</link>
		<description><![CDATA[A student who makes bracelets from broken bicycle parts and another who has an idea for a drill rig that can be used to place supports for buildings with failed foundations won this years West Virginia University Statewide Student Business Plan Competition.]]></description>
		<guid>http://be.wvu.edu/multimedia/businessplan.htm</guid>
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		<title>Economics professor talks to Federal Reserve</title>
		<link>http://www.richmondfed.org/publications/research/region_focus/2009/winter/pdf/interview.pdf</link>
		<description><![CDATA[&nbsp;]]></description>
		<guid>http://www.richmondfed.org/publications/research/region_focus/2009/winter/pdf/interview.pdf</guid>
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		<title>10th Annual B &amp; E Alumni &amp; Friends Golf Tournament</title>
		<link>http://www.be.wvu.edu/golf/index.htm</link>
		<author>Tim Terman</author>
		<description><![CDATA[<P>Join us for a beautiful day of golf, food, fun and friendship at the<BR><STRONG>10<SUP>th</SUP> Annual Alumni &amp; Friends Golf Tournament</STRONG><BR><STRONG>Friday, May 1, 2009<BR>Lakeview Golf Resort<BR>Morgantown, WV</STRONG> </P>]]></description>
		<guid>http://www.be.wvu.edu/golf/index.htm</guid>
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		<title>Students conduct labor negotiations simulation (video)</title>
		<link>http://www.be.wvu.edu/multimedia/labornegotiations.htm</link>
		<description><![CDATA[&nbsp;]]></description>
		<guid>http://www.be.wvu.edu/multimedia/labornegotiations.htm</guid>
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		<title>MIS student named Truman Scholar</title>
		<link>http://wvutoday.wvu.edu/news/page/7617/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[<P>John Armour hopes to give back to his community by using technology and logistics for FEMA and perhaps as WVUs 20th Truman Scholar he will. </P>]]></description>
		<guid>http://wvutoday.wvu.edu/news/page/7617/</guid>
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		<title>NBC News looks at Morgantown</title>
		<link>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032619/#29744203</link>
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		<title>April 16 conference to explore Morgantown's economic future</title>
		<link>http://www.be.wvu.edu/bber/confdescription.htm</link>
		<author>Tim Terman</author>
		<description><![CDATA[For all public and private decision-makers, strategic planners, and analysts who depend on having the best available information on economic trends in our region and nation.]]></description>
		<guid>http://www.be.wvu.edu/bber/confdescription.htm</guid>
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		<title>Students get taste of new hospitality course</title>
		<link>http://wvutoday.wvu.edu/news/page/7585/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[A new course in <A href="http://www.be.wvu.edu/">West Virginia Universitys College of Business and Economics</A> will open doors for students and could also help the state bolster its work force.]]></description>
		<guid>http://wvutoday.wvu.edu/news/page/7585/</guid>
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