Commentary

Wedding Bills
By Kelly Nolan

Don’t believe all those industry surveys. You can have your dream wedding without breaking the bank.
School of Hard Knocks
By Steven Bertoni

Why starting a new business might provide a better education than earning an MBA.
Who’s Afraid of a Recession?
By Gina F. Faridniya

Certainly not fledgling entrepreneurs.
Rating the Raters
By Sui-Lee Wee

Credit rating agencies are finally in the line of fire among regulators. It’s high time.
Ads, Ads Everywhere
By Jay Yarow

As you walk down the street — ping — it’s an ad on your GPS-equipped phone. The age of location-based marketing is here. And it might be less-intrusive than you think.

Behind the News

Adventure Venture
By Ana Patricia Ferrey

Alley Pond Park in Queens opened an adventure course to attract active New Yorkers looking for a thrill and businesses searching for team-building activities. Rock climbing anyone?
CEO Go Go
By Tatyana Shumsky

Amid market turmoil chief executive officer turnover hits a record high, leaving companies worried about keeping CEOs on the job.
Dollars for Scholars
By Joyce Koh

If an educated workforce is the key to America’s future prosperity, somebody’s got to pay for it.
Riding With the Fishes
By Wayne Ma

New York City Transit plans to dispose of 1,600 old subway cars off the Atlantic coast. But do the cost savings for the city outweigh the environmental costs to the ocean?
Live, From a Stage 1,000 Miles Away
By Ryan Derousseau

Fabchannel.com streams real-time concerts from a club in the Netherlands to a computer near you. Cool. But is it profitable?
Good Enough for Government Work?
By Debra Borchardt

It’s official. Federal procurement offices must find bio-based products that don’t use fossil fuels. Soy ink anyone?
Regulation Nation
By Simone Baribeau

As the world waits for a resolution to the subprime debacle, many state governments have jumped in and proposed legislation to protect consumers and the economy.

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About BER Business Times

BER Business Times is a bi-weekly Webzine written, edited, and produced by the graduate students in New York University’s Business & Economic Reporting Program. In addition to specialized courses in business writing, students take MBA courses in accounting, finance, economics, business history, and marketing from the faculty at NYU’s Stern School of Business, one of the top business schools in the country.

Contributing Editors
Jasmine D. Adkins, Smitha Ballal, Simone Baribeau, Steven Bertoni, Debra Conn Borchardt, S. J. Constable, Gabrielle Pia Coppola, Myrlande Davermann, Ryan Michael Derousseau, Gina Faridniya, Ana Ferrey, Daniel Harrison, Jennifer Leigh Hodson, J.T. Keehner, Bryan Keogh, Joyce Koh, Jason Leow, Wayne Ma, Chuck Marvin, Kelly Nolan, Tatyana Shumsky, Samar Srivastava, Sui-Lee Wee, Eva Ying Wu, Jay Yarow, Candice Zachariahs