The business portion of the program is accredited through the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, while the law portion, along with the entire law school, is accredited by the American Bar Association.
"The NFIP must be reauthorized in a meaningful way that addresses the fundamental business model of the program," Federal Emergency Management Agency administrator Brock Long, who oversees NFIP, told Politico last week.
The study looked at absenteeism and turnover rates to determine quantitative business benefits of the program in four factories in Egypt and Pakistan, and the results clearly demonstrate the value of investing in women's health.
Shop owners, who benefit from the increased traffic coming through their businesses because of the program, don't want the state to go back to a centralized program.
But the real business of the evening — the program — seemed oddly low key.
Mr. Bloomberg's own company, Bloomberg L.P., may be a model of the type of business the program could spawn, but he started out with $10 million of severance he had received when he was fired from his job at Salomon Brothers.
Anthony R. Hendrickson, dean of Creighton's school of business, said the program would be flexible, based on each student's academic and business experience and personal goals.
Since its launch, Amazon says it has signed up "millions" of business customers and "hundreds of thousands" of business sellers to the program.
More recently, this criticism has found support among city and state officials, who are threatening to shut down the small-business lending arm of the program, the Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone.
But as critics have argued, the study by the General Accounting Office also found that the program did not pay "a substantial portion" of the losses of most of the businesses in the program.
Following high-end fashion items, which today is a significant portion of eBay business, the program will likely expand to jewelry and watches next, eBay told us.
