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The quality of top management has a greater impact on the valuation of Internet companies at an initial public offering than financials, according to a paper written by Thomas Dean, management professor at the University of Colorado at Â鶹¹ÙÍø Leeds School of Business. Dean's research found that because Web-based ventures often lack physical assets characteristic of non-Web-based ventures -- such as a plant or equipment and, in some cases, a tested product -- the management team's knowledge and experience is the leading determinant of a company's value.

The Off-Campus Student Services Office at the University of Colorado at Â鶹¹ÙÍø will host an Off-Campus Housing Fair for students on Wednesday, March 13, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Glenn Miller Ballroom of the University Memorial Center. The fair will allow students to collect information on housing opportunities for next year from a variety of property management companies and landlords, according to Susan Stafford, center director.

For the first time in its history, the University of Colorado at Â鶹¹ÙÍø School of Law has cracked The Hispanic Business magazine's top 10 list of the best law schools for Hispanics. The survey, published in the March 2002 edition, ranks CU ninth in the nation.

University of Colorado at Â鶹¹ÙÍø engineering students will participate in a first of its kind, round-the-clock Global Design Initiative with students in England and Singapore March 11-15. The goal of the project is to design a race car in just five days by taking advantage of successive time zones to do 24-hour-a-day design. Students from Aston University in Birmingham, England, and Temasek Polytechnic in Singapore will collaborate with CU-Â鶹¹ÙÍø students on the design, with each team handing off their work electronically to the next group at the end of the day.