Today CIBC global markets are predicting $7 oil by 2012. 

There is somewhat of a controversy brewing at Olin Business School on the campus of Washington University in St. Louis. Professor Tzachi Zach was recently denied tenure in his sixth year at Olin teaching Accounting. The main reason for the decline was the lack of published research in Professor Zach's body of work. Zach had hoped for a three year extension before a final decision on his tenure decision was rendered.

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Natural Gas E&P Trend Here To Stay

"I have been very bullish on Natural Gas since the beginning of 2008. The commodity has rallied through the $10 mark. This morning, Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) noted that it now sees summer nat gas to come in over $11 and may be as high as $13 in 2009..."

I love this. You don't often hear deans come right out and say they're going after a ranking, but we all know they are. Not so though for new University at Albany business school dean Don Siegel. Siegel's other goals include expanding entrepreneurial opportunities including incubator space and more start-up opportunities for student businesses. He is walking into a great situation as the New York State legislature has just passed funding for the new business school building at Albany.

Such were the words of Jo-Anne Shibles in an announcement that the Santa Clara University will be cutting its undergraduate business school enrollment by 33 percent. Current students can still declare a business major or minor, but only through tax day.

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For a more in depth look take a look at the headlines on Bloomberg.com, they do a decent job giving you a brief overview and always check out John Crudele's jobs article in the NY Post.

The economy lost 80k (Street est. was 50k) jobs and unemployment rose to 5.1 percent. Factory payrolls contracted by 48k jobs (st estimate was 35k).

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The USNews and World Report has just released the 2009 version of its popular "Best Graduate Schools" report. The rankings of business schools are included. The top five this year were Harvard Business School, Stanford Graduate School of Business, The Wharton School at University of Pennsylvania, MIT's Sloan, and Northwestern University's Kellogg.

Best for Finance: U Penn (Wharton)
Best for Accounting: U Texas at Austin (McCombs)
Best for Entrepreneurship: Babson (Olin)

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