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The state of Michigan conjures certain classic images: the Great Lakes, the Motor City. Time to add “hotbed of entrepreneurial activity.”

U-M Hospitals and Health Centers ranked best in the state; Bionic eye soon available at Kellogg Eye Center; Increased hydraulic fracturing causing concerns in Michigan; New master of management degree targets non-business undergrads; U-M researcher records gritty details of undocumented immigrants; Detroit seeks app builders for new auto technology; Does empathy get better with age?

Business professor-cum-shark diver George Siedel will teach the LA cohort of the Executive MBA Program this fall.

Banks that received federal bailout money ended up approving riskier loans and shifting capital toward risky investments after getting government help, say U-M researchers. Further, these banks were no more likely to issue loans, overall, than non-TARP banks, in contrast to the declared objective of the federal program to increase lending.