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Businesses today are turning to quantifiable analysis to map strategies. According to a professor at the Olin School of Business, companies can address specific problems in a scientific way by using basic principals of game theory.

People’s suspicions about outsourcing are sometimes right; it is just a way for firms to save a buck. But when firms outsource IT projects or share resources with a supplier, they might be creating competitors who could steal customers or profit making ideas, says a professor from the Olin School of Business. Without knowing when it is appropriate to outsource, the financial impact could be quite harmful.

Surgeons once treated blockages with a carotid bypass, which reroutes a scalp artery to restore normal brain blood flow and pressure.

Photo by Kevin LowderChinese New Year parties at the University included a Dragon Dance, student singing and dancing performances, and a bojutsu demonstration.

“We’re analyzing the genes active in breast tumors to characterize the biological behaviors of each breast-cancer subtype,” says lead investigator Matthew Ellis.

Photo by Tim ParkerMedical students in the Ballroom Dance Club learn dances for the School of Medicine’s 10th annual Faculty/Student Med Ball, to be held March 11.

In November 2003, the group shared the stage with Bono, Peter Gabriel, the Eurythmics and others at Nelson Mandela’s 46664 Concert in Cape Town.

The reading, sponsored by The Writing Program in Arts & Sciences, is free and open to the public and will take place in Duncker Hall’s Hurst Lounge.

The program will feature several virtuosic works by late 19th-century Russian composers, most notably Mili Balakirev’s colorful Islamey, Oriental Fantasy.

The new ages are set between 32,000-33,000 years old, and perhaps slightly older; in 1998, the fossils had been radiocarbon dated to 28,000-29,000 years.