Running Government Like a Business?

October 23rd, 2010 · 4 Comments

Job cuts, factory closings, foreclosures, bank failures — do we really want government run like a business?

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Make Michigan Best Place to Attract Socially Conscious Business Investment

July 15th, 2010 · 2 Comments

Make Michigan Best Place to Attract Socially Conscious Business Investment Guest Column by Bob Leonard July 16, 2010 Some estimates of the market for “friendly” capital put the total available to environmentally and socially conscious businesses above three-trillion dollars. It could make a big difference for Michigan if we could attract even a small portion [...]

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Inspiration Point

July 15th, 2010 · 1 Comment

Inspiration Point by Annie Scott July 16, 2010 Here’s what’s going on in a land far away but not so far apart from the Mitten … One of the few good things to come out of this struggling economy, with its disastrous unemployment rate and litany of stability-shattering challenges, is the fact that it is [...]

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Building Guanxi

May 20th, 2010 · 6 Comments

Building Guanxi by Dan Redford May 21, 2010 During my travels in China, I’ve come to understand that this country is a complete anomaly. The Shanghai World Expo is testament to that. Where else in the world could you turn around after hosting an over-$40 billion Olympics and two years later spend $50 billion in [...]

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Business Leaders Ask Lawmakers to Turn State Around

January 16th, 2010 · 3 Comments

Business Leaders Ask Lawmakers to Turn State Around Guest Column by Doug Rothwell January 16, 2010 Business Leaders for Michigan, an organization composed of many of the state’s largest job providers, has created the Michigan Turnaround Plan to help make Michigan more competitive and once again become a “Top Ten” state for job and economic [...]

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Entering a Depression

November 30th, 2009 · 3 Comments

Entering a Depression by Neil Munro December 1, 2009 Let’s face it. We’re no longer in an economic recession. The economy here in Michigan is entering a depression. What we’re embarking on is more comparable to our plight in the 1930s than, for example, to the very deep but short downturn of the early 1980s. [...]

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Pressing On

November 15th, 2009 · 3 Comments

Pressing On University publishers tackle digital revolution by Jean B. Eggemeyer November 16, 2009 The Model T and the Amazon Kindle may share space in the history books of the future as technologies that transformed an industry. And, rather than printed books, those future histories are likely to be electronic files. Gabriel Dotto, Michigan State [...]

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Mitten State Obsession

October 29th, 2009 · 3 Comments

Mitten State Obsession by Susan J. Demas October 30, 2009 A few weeks ago, I took a leisurely drive down to Ann Arbor while listening to a Michigan Radio report on the woes of Baraga County, where one in four people is unemployed. The reporter noted that the Upper Peninsula county holds dubious honor of [...]

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Business Leaders Offer Plan to Fix Michigan

October 29th, 2009 · 7 Comments

Business Leaders Offer Plan to Fix Michigan Guest Column by Dave Brandon and Mark Murray October 30, 2009 Two generations ago, Michigan was a “Top Ten” state for economic growth. For the past generation, we have lagged the nation as we become economically poorer, smaller and less competitive. Motivated by a desire to see Michigan [...]

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The Color of Jobs

October 17th, 2009 · 3 Comments

The Color of Jobs by Tom Shields October 16, 2009 If an award were given to the color of the decade, it would be green. Green is clean. Green is good. Both the Jolly Green Giant and Kermit the frog should get a Nobel Prize for truly being green. Where becoming more environmentally friendly was [...]

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