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January 09, 2007
Do startups really need formal business plans?
The Wall Street Journal online, January 9, 2007 (subscription required)
Business schools and consultants have long preached that writing a formal business plan greatly improves a startup's odds of success. But a growing number of academics are questioning whether that's really the case. Scott Shane, a professor at Case Western Reserve University, says most studies that discount business planning are flawed because they don't correct for business failure rates, only accounting for businesses that survived. Read article.
December 04, 2006
Just how precise is the balancing act that maintains life?
Wall Street Journal, December 1, 2006
If the laws of physics and the fundamental constants of nature were the slightest bit different, the world would not exist, at least in the form we see it. For years, many scientists viewed anthropic reasoning as "the last refuge of scoundrels," says cosmologist Lawrence Krauss of Case Western Reserve University. "It was what you resorted to when you couldn't think of other explanations. But science has always tried to explain why the universe is the way it is…" Read article. (subscription required)
November 22, 2006
Alzheimer's research makes dramatic shift to widen perspective
The Wall Street Journal online, November 17, 2006
For more than 20 years, the leading theory has held that sticky blobs in the brain called amyloid plaques cause Alzheimer's disease. But as I've written before, many scientists whose work challenges the amyloid dogma have been unable to publish in top journals, and their grant proposals, "go down in flames," as Mark Smith of Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine told me. Read article (subscription required).