March 3, 2012 | New York Times

A new scientific paper suggests that the ocean is acidifying at a rate that is many times faster than at any time in the past 300 million years. The change is occurring so rapidly that it raises “the possibility that we are entering an unknown territory of marine ecosystem change,” said the paper, published this week in the journal Science.

March 2, 2012 | Wall Street Journal

I.P.O. Pipeline Is Filled With Enterprise Technology While the big Silicon Valley I.P.O.'s have lately been companies that focus on consumers, the next wave will be businesses that cater to business, like Splunk, Workday and Palo Alto Networks, The Wall Street Journal reports.

March 1, 2012 | peHUB

In the March edition of Harvard Business Review, Mihir Desai, a longtime finance professor at Harvard Business School, has written an article that’s as compelling as it is certain to spur acrimonious debate. Titled “The Incentive Bubble,” Desai’s piece examines the country’s rising income inequality and the kind of corporate governance failures that led to the financial collapse of 2008. Connie Loizos discusses the article with Desai:

February 29, 2012 | Bloomberg Business Week

Our elected officials often design policies to help entrepreneurs because they believe doing so will create jobs. One of their favorite approaches is to give investors incentives such as angel tax credits or capital gains tax exemptions, or by matching grants to finance startups. While it’s obvious that investors want to maximize return on investment—not job creation—policymakers often forget this.