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ABSTRACT: Business Data Services (BDS), formerly called special access services, are dedicated broadband lines offered by network providers to business customers and network providers. In a packet-based broadband network, the distinction between customer and competitor is being blurred, and with it the meaning of the wholesale/retail distinction. A new approach to pricing and regulatory oversight is needed that moves away from treating any market segment as passive purchasers of BDS services. The authors propose a simple pricing structure that is cost-causative, reflects the opportunity cost of using the network, and controls opportunistic behavior. While the main focus of the paper is on BDS services, the recommendations also hold in other networks industries.

One of the hardest parts about writing great content is getting it to reach the right people. This is why search engine optimization (SEO) is so important. By including certain words and phrases in a neat and organized structure, you increase the chances that your content will be found by the people who have a need for your service.

Tayllor Gomez-Spillane is an SEO Strategist at SEMGeeks, with a B.S. in Marketing from Rutgers Business School.

The Toys R Us and Babies R Us chain announced last month it's closing 180 locations nationwide as the company tries to restructure $5 billion in debt.

Rutgers Business School Professor Marc Kalan comments on changing retail.

It used to be part of the American Dream -- the cute house in the suburbs with a garage and a big yard for the kids.
Now, however, more and more New Jersey residents are opting out.
After the housing crisis of 2008, the standards for qualifying for a mortgage became much more stringent, said Kevin Riordan, executive director of the Rutgers Center for Real Estate.
"Especially for borrowers on the cusp [economically], the process just became more difficult," Riordan said.

“When we were looking at the refugee problem, we realized there were all these great opportunities,” explains Gia Farooqi, the company’s CEO. “There’s nonprofit hospitals, education centers, job opportunities for refugees, but the issue was that they weren’t actually reaching the resources.”
Their idea? Create a low-cost, easy-to-use transportation network that connects refugees and other displaced persons to the vital resources they need to live happy, healthy, productive lives. They call their system Roshni Rides.

YouTube uses watch time as a metric in its algorithm for suggesting videos. The algorithm prioritizes videos that lead to longer overall watch time or viewing sessions, rather than videos that get more clicks.

Mayor Megan Barry’s input in the head of her security detail Sgt. Robert Forrest's activity and eventual overtime pay raise legitimate questions, said Chris Young, an assistant professor of professional practice in the Department of Management and Global Business at Rutgers Business School in New Jersey.
“There may be an ethical violation here, and I want to be very careful that we say may," Young said. “We don’t have all the facts and unfortunately ethics dives into as much data and facts that you can get your hands on.”

A Purdue Blockchain Lab project headed by Hong Wan, received a $1.5 million grant from an Australian company, CollinStar Capital Pty Ltd., supporting blockchain research and technology development.

A blockchain is a distributed database that maintains a dynamic list of records, secured against tampering and revision.

The research lab is the first in the U.S. to study blockchains from an operations research perspective and to work on characterization and application of blockchains to various areas.

Wan is joined by Blockchain Lab co-director Dadi Xing as well as Vaneet Aggarwal and Mario Ventresca, both assistant professors of industrial engineering. Other researchers include Siyuan Liu, co-director of Blockchain Lab Business Intelligence and assistant professor in the Smeal College of Business at Pennsylvania State University; Jacob Cheng, co-director of Blockchain Business Development and a managing partner of CollinStar Capital Pty Ltd.; and Xiaowei Xu, associate professor of supply chain management at Rutgers University Business School.

Leading edge and “best place to work” companies recognize the critical need to synch up their talent acquisition strategy with their employer branding.
John “Johnny” Torrance-Nesbitt, Rutgers MBA '88, is an award-winning Global Recruiting & Employer Branding executive.

Cities across America are competing to host Amazon's second headquarters. Will it be worth it?
Lyneir Richardson, instructor of professional practice and executive director of The Center for Urban Entrepreneurship and Economic Development (CUEED) interview begins at 4:30 of the recording.

“We are delighted to provide students at CCM a top-ranked Rutgers Business School education to help them launch their careers,” said Dr. Lei Lei, dean. Rutgers Business School is highly ranked by U.S. News & World Report, Poets & Quants and the Princeton Review.
“The advantage of programs like this is to help students, who face many challenges going to college, make the transition to a four-year school. This partnership with CCM facilitates that,” said Dr. Jerome Williams.

“Facebook provides an easier way for users to stumble upon content, making it ideal for marketers to launch a new product or campaign that the target audience wouldn’t know to proactively seek out,” says Stacy Smollin Schwartz, marketing professor at Rutgers Business School.

But according to Arturo Osorio-Fernandez, an expert on small business and assistant professor at Rutgers Business School, changes to the ACA could make health care inaccessible to some entrepreneurs and their families.
Innovation and the creation of new business might not be able to be entertained because its either that or a doctors visit.

A so-called “new” recruiting philosophy or paradigm needs to emerge where we consider hiring smart people with skills that are transferrable — even if it is from another industry.
John “Johnny” Torrance-Nesbitt, Rutgers MBA '88, is an award-winning Global Recruiting & Employer Branding executive.

Volunteers from Beta Alpha Psi, the Accounting and Finance Honors Society at Rutgers, will help taxpayers file online, by appointment only, on Fridays and Saturdays from February 2 to April 7, 2018.

Atlantic Stewardship Bank, announced the appointment of Mark Van Grouw to assistant treasurer/assistant vice president of ASB’s accounting department.
Van Grouw has a Masters of Accounting from Rutgers Business School and is a CPA in the state of New Jersey.

Since 2015, a group of Rutgers alumni, headed by Jim Simos, meet once a year and distribute wreathes to deceased veteran alumni at Arlington National Cemetery in Washington, D.C. as part of the tradition of the national Wreaths Across America organization.

Chris Buren, founder and president of RutgersBit and a first-year student in the Rutgers Business School, said that the goal of the club is to teach all members of the Rutgers community about cryptocurrency and blockchain.

The common goal is to fill the pipeline with the best talent and groom and entice students to join an organization once their degree requirements have been completed.
Rutgers Business School Internship rates for the Class of 2017 before senior year: 72.9%.

“Once the new governor is briefed and really understands, I believe it’s something the new governor would support because of all the economic benefit developments over time,” said Lyneir Richardson, Instructor of Professional Practice and Executive Director of The Center for Urban Entrepreneurship and Economic Development (CUEED) at Rutgers Business School.

Martin Luther King Intermediate School students learned about entrepreneurship from their High School Heroes recently.
Trained by Rutgers Business School Professor of Finance Ron Richter and Stephanie Rae Chou of Junior Achievement, and followed by hours of preparation and practice, the High School Heroes delivered standards-based financial literacy lessons to almost 500 fourth and fifth grade students.

Lyneir Richardson, a professor of entrepreneurship at Rutgers Business School and executive director of the Rutgers University Center for Urban Entrepreneurship, says an MBA program with faculty who have real-world business experience is ideal.

"Professors who have battle scars and war wounds bring color commentary to the reading and assignments and are invaluable to students," he says.

MBA applicants often compare the rankings of various business schools before they decide which they want to target. But experts say these same applicants often forget to consider another critical factor: which schools' teaching methods are the best fit for their learning style and career goals.

Terri Kurtzberg is co-author of a new book called Distracted: Staying Connected without Losing Focus, arguing that workers have become addicted to the nonstop Twitter feeds, news alerts, texts and emails on their mobile phones. And their brains aren't equipped to handle it.

You could begin with Facebook and Twitter. They can help you recruit more diverse candidates and also spread your diversity brand message.
This could be an effective channel for tweeting out your firm’s programs, processes, awards and accomplishments in Diversity and Inclusion.
John “Johnny” Torrance-Nesbitt, Rutgers MBA '88, is an award-winning Global Recruiting & Employer Branding executive.

Years of steady hiring and economic growth have delivered a cumulative benefit for at least one group that hasn't always shared in America's prosperity. The unemployment rate for African-Americans fell to 6.8 percent in December, the lowest level since the government began tracking such data in 1972.

Q. Why is the African-American unemployment rate higher than the rate for whites?

Nancy DiTomaso, a business professor at Rutgers University, says her research has found that whites likely benefit from networks of family and friends that don't intentionally exclude blacks or other minorities. Yet, nevertheless, their networks have the effect of helping whites get jobs more readily than blacks.

Growing out of Professor Jonathan Eckstein's twenty years' experience teaching courses on management information systems (MIS) at Rutgers Business School, this book fills this gap in the literature by providing a rigorous introduction to relational databases for readers without prior computer science or programming experience.

When a student is the first in their family to attend college, the pressures not to disappoint are immense, and the stresses pulling them apart are many. To help these students have a fair chance at success once they have been accepted into business school, there are many ways in which institutes provide support throughout their educations to guide them to graduation.

The optimal scenario is to pay your credit card off in full each month, regardless of the rate. If you are not able to do so, then you should consider the use of a card with a "teaser" rate, that has abnormally low interest rates for a period of up to 2 years.

Dr. Farok Contractor, distinguished professor in the Management and Global Business department and a lecturer in the Rutgers Business School Executive MBA program said: “Very simply, the role of managers at senior executive levels involves top level strategy and leadership, which has to integrate concepts and personnel across the various departments and divisions of a firm. Such integrative skills cannot be taught online.”

“We offer a great program in those eight jam-packed days, so students come out enthused about what supply chain management can mean for them,” John Impellizzeri explains. “We show even those who are interested in sports, media, and music how supply chains relate to any interest they might have.”

“It’s not the sexy area of banking, but students walked away from the class saying ‘I didn’t know it would be so interesting,'” said Ron Richter, a Rutgers professor who teaches a class on working capital management. He helped establish the Citi tie-up alongside Michael Fossaceca, Citi’s head of treasury and trade solutions in North America.

The hospitality industry has finally embraced the challenge of tackling sustainability, with most hotel groups believing that operating a sustainable company is not just "a nice thing to do" but the new way of doing business, say Rutgers Business School's Matthew Walsman and Cornell's Rohit Verma.

The saying is that ‘Cash is King,’ but in my view, the saying should be ‘Cash Flow is King.’ Ultimately, I had to sell the assets of my company at a discount, and I went out of business.”

"Across the U.S., 96 percent of the land is available for development – it's just not where it needs to be," said Morris Davis, academic director of the Center for Real Estate at Rutgers Business School. "This is particularly true in New Jersey."

Trump's statement on Monday was perhaps the last straw for many political observers and Trump foes, if not GOP primary voters. The billionaire businessman called for a complete "shutdown" of Muslims entering the United States "until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on" with terrorism.

Ashwani Monga, professor and chair of the Marketing Department at Rutgers Business School, said Trump threatens further damage to his personal brand. He notes, however, that Trump only seems to care about one core group right now — those who support his primary campaign.

The Institute for Ethical Leadership at Rutgers Business School has announced eight Institute for Ethical Leadership Research Fellows. The full-time Rutgers Business School faculty members conduct research and/or teaching in areas related to business ethics, leadership ethics and corporate social responsibility.

"There are millions of businesses throughout the country," says Jeffrey Robinson, a professor of management and entrepreneurship at the Rutgers Business School.
"And then of course, they get concentrated in cities and urban areas because there's more people there, there's more commerce and activity taking place there."

MBA graduates looking to apply their skills to a fast-growing and high-paying career may be interested in pursuing a role in Pricing Analysis. Named among the 100 best jobs in America by CNN.

The ultimate test of a business school for many students, however, may well be something that meets an even higher standard: Leveraging your educational experience to land a job in a specific company you really want to work for.

Veteran undergraduate students make up roughly 4 percent of the student body. Because of this, the Rutgers Business School now offers a Mini-MBA: Business Management for Military and Veterans program that serves veterans, transitioning military personnel, ROTC students and undergraduate students returning from military service, according to RBS's site.
Margaret O' Donnell, the program manager with Rutgers Business School, said the program is customized for veterans transitioning into the workforce, helping them make sound business decisions in their careers.

Let's look beyond the obvious trends at some developments percolating below the surface that will impact marketing in 2018 and beyond.

"Our comparative advantage is why we're out of space," said Morris Davis, academic director and Paul V. Profeta chair at the Rutgers Center for Real Estate. "There is an opportunity in New Jersey. It's a massive growth opportunity, but how do we take advantage of it?"

The most important aspect of leadership, Tara Dowdell said, is the ability to inspire and empower.

Can Uslay, an associate professor of Marketing, director of Special Projects of the Rutgers Business School (RBS) and organizer of the Business Leader Speaker Series, said the goal of the series is "to expose our students to a variety of pathways to success."

TD Bank, America's Most Convenient Bank®, today announced the appointment of Nick Miceli to Regional President, Florida. Miceli will oversee TD Bank's commercial, retail, small business, specialty banking operations and lending services throughout the state.

Tom Szaky, the founder of TerraCycle, a New Jersey-based garbage startup, has built a $24 million business around the belief that everything is recyclable.
It starts with an evaluation of cost during a product's complete life cycle, said Kevin Lyons, a professor of supply chain management at Rutgers Business School.

For those who have attended world-class MBA programs, pay bumps are verifiable, and substantial.
In the most recent Financial Times Global MBA ranking, for instance, MBA graduates from Rutgers Business School reported that three years after graduation, they had increased their salaries by 130 percent, on average.

Third in the list is the Rutgers Executive MBA program from the Rutgers Business School in New Jersey, with 22% of students from the pharma, biotech, and healthcare fields. Especially created for busy executives, this 20-month program is a suitable learning option for healthcare managers and executives who want to remain working while studying for an MBA.

What many Americans don't realize, however, is that the story of those early settlers' struggle, which culminated in what we remember today as the first Thanksgiving feast, is also a tale of globalization, many centuries before the word was even coined.