January 22nd, 2009. Nightly Business Report's 30th anniversary will be here before you know it, and we're gearing up for it with a special project, "The Top 30 Innovations of the Last 30 Years." A group of professors from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania will judge the nominations you submit via the Knowledge@Wharton website.
You've got lots of innovations choose from. Just think about it! There's the World Wide Web, hybrid cars, medical breakthroughs... heck even Paul Kangas and the Nightly Business Report team are an innovation. The program was a pioneer in business journalism, bringing economic and market coverage off the page and on to television screens in 1979.
We invite you to post your comments about this project and about the innovations you are considering at the bottom of this blog entry. Let's discuss those innovations and think about just how they've changed the world.
Just remember...if you post an innovation here, you still need to submit it on the Knowledge@Wharton website -- if you want the judges to review it.
NOTE: The deadline to recommend an innovation was September 15, 2008, so we are no longer accepting submissions. The panel of judges from The Wharton School is currently busy reviewing the thousands of entries already received. We thank you for your interest in this project, and we invite you to continue to discuss the Top 30 Innovations of the Last 30 Years in this blog. Oh, and don't forget to tune into Nightly Business Report in February 2009, when we announce the final list of the Top 30 Innovations.
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My question is reference to tax rebates; why do you mention 2007 tax returns for tax rebates and not 2008?
Dear Ms. Gharib:
Thank you for acknowledging my suggestion of THE best innovation of the past 30 years on your broadcast this evening, Friday, 12 Sep 08: the "Mute" button on a TV Remote Control. As I just submitted it Thursday evening, I was pleasantly taken aback by your closing comment.
Sincerely,
Robert R. Brown
A member of many of your long time viewers.
I have faithfully watched nightly business report for a number of years---and now that I invest in the stock market via an online broker and contribute to my 401K with employer match, I
don't buy a stock until I run it past Paul and Suzie and the rest of the NBR team. I consider them amoung my investment advisors. I might suggest that PBS consider a 24-7 Business channel. That's how good the program gets---I will stay tuned and hope you will to. Like Paul--I wish all viewere the best of "GOOD Buys" !
Although our technology has been around for the last 16 years, it is still a relatively new and undeveloped breakthrough that would provide for safer pharmaceuticals. Part of the problem is that the technology is a paradigm shift in how we understand how drugs activate our cellular receptors. More on this technology can be read at Avelient.com
(NBR Editor's Note: The http: link Mr. Lanzara provided was too long for this space. It has been adapted into an html link. Clicking on Avelient.com above will take you to the link Mr. Lanzara provided.)