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- One Midwest university has jumped down from its ivory tower to train graduate-level entrepreneurs from across campus how to succeed in their own businesses. Here's how it happens.

- S2 Yachts and Energetx Composites demonstrate resiliency, entrepreneurship – and a willingness to change.

- In an economy like this, it is important to remember that there are businesses that are surviving, thriving and growing in the state of Michigan. Corp! magazine set out to honor those companies that are doing just that. Selected by our readers, they are the annual Best of Michigan Business honorees, and we applaud them.

- It’s all business when you go into Detroit Mayor Dave Bing’s office in the City-County Building in Detroit. Staff and communications directors are ready and waiting to shuttle you into his office. Inside, a comfortable room greets you with comfy, stuffed seating at one end, a sleeves-up working table in another area and the mayor’s desk at the other end.

- Bong, bong, bong! You’ve probably heard that electronic sound a number of times at a clothing store, a grocery store, even your local library. It’s the sound made when someone leaves with something that contains an active RFID tag.

- It gets the best mileage of any non-hybrid, you can park it for half price in some New York City garages and they’ll plant a tree when you buy it. “It” is the smart fortwo, a still head-turning bob-tailed ‘city car’ that has more headroom than most traditional sedans and now has a new boss for American operations.

- This year’s Corp! Going Green Award winners range from automotive suppliers to alternative energy companies, a hotel, a laundromat, dentist’s office, architects, IT firms and a farm. All are worthy of recognition as Michigan’s environmentally conscious leaders for their sustainable business practices, education programs, and daring in a number of green initiatives.

- One of the most powerful people in publishing spoke last week to the women of Inforum about the Time Inc. 'investment' in creating a Detroit bureau, based in a home in the West Village. She hopes to change the image of the city — for the better...

- In our attempts to control global warming by cutting down on greenhouse gasses will we be pricing some of our basic food products out of reach? Is the choice for ethanol as a non-polluting additive at the gas pump solely between food or fuel? There may well be a new alternative.

- If there was a “bottom line” on the national front in 2009, it appears to have been drawn by Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke in September when he said, “From a technical perspective, the recession is likely over.”