Business
- Boeing Center for Technology and Information Management - Focused collaboration between business and academe. Businesses provide professors and students with access to in-house real-world technology, and these researchers use these data and machines to formulate theories on operations and supply chain management to better improve logistics and processes.
- Center for Research in Economics and Strategy - supports empirical and scientific research to aid in the understanding of how markets behave, how firms strategize, and how industries evolve.
- Reuben C. Taylor Experimental Laboratory - a high-technology facility for conducting experimental research to analyze negotiation, market behavior, and decision making. Included in the laboratory is a computer network that allows participants to make decisions and communicate with others in real-time.
- Skandalaris Center for Entrepreneurial Studies - established in 2004 with a grant from the Kauffman Foundtation. The Center's initiatives focus on corporate innovation, application and commercialization for early-stage science, student-initiated ventures (such as the Hatchery course and the Olin Cup competition), social entrepreneurship, and connecting the University with the St. Louis start-up community.
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Famous quotes containing the word business:
“Boxing is just show business with blood.”
—Frank Bruno (b. 1961)
“The elements of success in this business do not differ from the elements of success in any other. Competition is keen and bitter. Advertising is as large an element as in any other business, and since the usual avenues of successful exploitation are closed to the profession, the adage that the best advertisement is a pleased customer is doubly true for this business.”
—Madeleine [Blair], U.S. prostitute and “madam.” Madeleine, ch. 5 (1919)
“If you’re so helpless you can’t find the water you’ve no business in it.”
—Robert Tusker, and Michael Curtiz. Joanne Xavier (Fay Wray)