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April Phase 0 SBIR Grant Winners- Are you next??

Congratulations go to the following winners of this month’s Phase 0 grants: Montana Microbial Products LLC 510 East Kent Missoula, MT 59802 (406) 542 9404 Phase 0 Title: Enyzmatic Hydrolysis and Fermentation of Sugar Beet…

Do You Tell Your Staff When You Disagree With the Boss’s Orders?

Last week I wrote about how managers who are excluded from decision making that affects their work can try to get included and make their views known to senior executives. But what should they do…

Dot-coms may be dead, but small businesses are still using the Internet to extend their reach

e-commerce hasn’t died. It’s just gone underground. At a time when acres of glassed-in offices hold the ghosts of failed dot-coms, one of New England’s more successful online businesses operates from the musty basement of…

A change in thinking could make all employees leaders

A common misconception that many business organizations have is the "someday" mindset: Someday, somehow, someone will come along and sprinkle magic dust on employees, transforming them into the leaders of tomorrow. By JIM SWEENEY Seattle…

Great Falls native earns science honor

Great Falls native Dr. Irving Weissman will be crowned the 44th California Scientist of the Year next month. By RICHARD ECKE Tribune Staff Writer Weissman, a Stanford University professor and medical doctor, will receive the…

MSU Research Roundup- Space cassettes -Wheat from on high-Dish review – Architecture on-line

Space cassettes If everything goes as planned, Elinor Pulcini, two other MSU researchers and three or four undergraduates will head for the Kennedy Space Center in July. They will load bacteria into 16 cassettes designed…

Boise Cascade continues to refine business mission to wean itself from the endless cycles of boom and bust.

The word Cascade isn´t the only thing removed from Boise Cascade´s new logo. The fir tree is gone, too. That missing tree seems to symbolize the Boise company´s efforts to start weaning itself from the…

Seattle expert discusses retailing ‘Anytime, Anywhere’

At the height of the dot-com boom, some Web heads brashly predicted that e-commerce would soon replace traditional stores as the preferred forum for shopping. By Jake Batsell Seattle Times business reporter For some shoppers,…

Drafting an Internet Policy for your Employees

If you monitor your employees’ Internet usage, you’re not alone. According to a survey conducted late last year by the American Management Association, the ePolicy Institute and US News & World Report, 61.6 percent of…

Former biology buff Lloyd Chestnut VP of R&D makes leap into administration

VP of research and development feels at home in Montana Bryan O’Connor Montana Kaimin — This is the fifth story in a weekly series of interviews with university administrators that will run in the Kaimin….

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