The increased applications primarily come from international students, but American applicants are also more frequently looking abroad when considering their options for a business education, based on information from the 2012 World Geographic Trend Report.

FORBES: The Rise of the International MBA

But before this vision could be realized, she recognized the need to deconstruct the raw costs of their services and report that detailed cost-information back to the business.

FORBES: What CIOs Can Learn From Moneyball

The report The Financial Impact of Breached Protected Health Information: A Business Case for Enhanced PHI Security enables health care organizations to make a business case for appropriate investments to better protect PHI.

FORBES: Can Health Care Orgs Maintain Trust With Electronic Records?

Intel incorporated an integrated approach into this report, providing information on the connection between corporate responsibility performance and the creation of business value.

ENGADGET: Intel wants to have conflict-free processors by the end of 2013

Sageworks, a financial information company, collects and analyzes data on the performance of privately held companies and provides the Business Credit Report by Sageworks.

FORBES: Slowest-growing U.S. industries

In New York foreign investors mainly help to fuel the finance, insurance and information sectors, according to a new report by the Partnership for New York City, a business group.

ECONOMIST: Foreign investment

"I felt that in order to be able to take the right managerial decisions, you need to have full information - and this information needs come to you fast and leave you fast as well, " he tells Russia Business Report in his marble office with great views of the Kazan skyline and a neat arrangement of Blackberry, iPhone and iPad on the desk.

BBC: Tatarstan's government goes electronic

Comparing the development of broadband to the development of other essential infrastructures such as roads and electricity, the report argues for the involvement of both government and business in enabling societies to benefit from the potential of information and communication technologies.

UNESCO: MEDIA SERVICES