GE Healthcare today launched Stimulus Simplicity, a new financing and product-certification program that will offer zero percent interest loans to physicians’ offices, hospitals, clinics, and other organizations. The concept is to help them...

Not too long ago, the discount-clothing chain Steve & Barry's was the center of newspaper style-section stories and glossy fashion-magazine spreads. It was another example of the democratization of design.

If you haven't watched Annie Leonard's film, The Story of Stuff, you really should. Seven million people have watched the 20-minute film since it was launched in December 2007, captivated by Leonard's breakneck-paced, fact-filled look at the story of...

Mayo Clinic is moving toward becoming more of a virtual hospital. The not-for-profit complex just announced a telemedicine collaboration this morning with a Swiss semiconductor company, STMicroelectronics, to monitor the condition of cardiac patients...

Ford Motor may have cheered investors with back-to-back reports this week that it netted almost $1 billion in the third quarter and increased its market share and year-over-year sales in October. (See this report from my BW colleague David Welch.) But...

A recent survey developed for the Small Business Administration’s Office of Advocacy by researchers at New York University’s Stern School of Business and NYU's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development suggests that successful...

Interesting. We've written about Better Place, the electric vehicle services provider, before (see, for instance, this piece from last year and, after the jump, a video interview with founder Shai Agassi from a few months ago.) In August, Better...