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Michigan Business Network episodes

  • What Small Businesses Should Consider when Purchasing Workers' Comp Insurance
    Mike Maurer Divisional Director of Business Development for the Accident Fund Insurance Company of America talks with Jeffrey Mosher on the Michigan Business Network. Mike addresses some crucial questions around workers’ compensation including why a company needs it, who to talk with to obtain coverage, what factors go into pricing and how to keep costs down.
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    7 min
  • Careers in Energy Week (Oct.15-19) | Michigan Business Beat
    Chris Holman welcomes back Edythe Hatter-Williams, CEO, Capital Area Michigan Works! To the Michigan
    Business Beat. Coming up on Monday, October 15, through Friday, October 19, is Careers in Energy Week. Careers in Energy Week is a nationwide effort that began in 2010 to increase awareness about energy careers. The purpose of the week is to help communities better understand the importance energy has in a local economy.
    Energy careers are very prevalent today. Opportunities range from positions in digital marketing to mechanics to field engineering technicians and more. Local energy companies such as the Lansing Board of Water & Light, Consumers Energy and DTE Energy are active participants in Careers in Energy Week. The energy companies in our region participate to help increase the awareness of careers in Greater Lansing’s energy industry. As of 2017, the energy sector employed nearly 99,000 people across the state of Michigan.
    Energy careers are projected to increase by 9 percent through 2024.
    Be sure to keep up with your energy company through social media for information on free events and open houses during Careers in Energy Week. To explore energy workforce opportunities in the capital area, visit Pure Michigan Talent Connect’s mitalent.org.
    Visit getintoenergy.com for more information on how to incorporate Careers in Energy Week into your calendar this month.
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    7 min
  • LAFCU Shred Day October 13th | Michigan Business Beat
    Kelli Ellsworth Etchison, Chief Marketing Officer, LAFCU discusses with Chris Holman AutoBooks, JUMBO CD’s, and LAFCU's statewide reach. AutoBooks is created for and is a great resource small business.
    In addition, Kelli announces their upcoming Shred Day which is October 13th from 10am - 12pm at 106 N. Marketplace Blvd.Lansing, MI 48917.
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    7 min
  • How satisfied are customers around the world, and what do we expect for the near future?
    Hosted by Tomas Hult, this segment of the globalEDGE Business Beat is a conversation with Forrest Morgeson, Director of Research for the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI), about customer satisfaction around the world. Tomas Hult is Professor and Byington Endowed Chair in the Eli Broad College of Business at Michigan State University. The American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) is the only national cross-industry measure of customer satisfaction in the United States. ACSI measures the satisfaction of U.S. household consumers with the quality of products and services offered by both foreign and domestic firms with significant share in U.S. markets. Today, we see a lot of international trade talk, political issues of a somewhat extreme nature in many countries that did not used to have such issues (e.g., European countries), and more of a win first attitude over cooperation. How does this affect customer satisfaction and how does customer satisfaction, reversely, perhaps affect politics?
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    8 min
  • Trump Subsidies are a Band-Aid for Farmers, Not a Solution | Dr. Tomas Hult
    Hosted by Tomas Hult, this segment of the globalEDGE Business Beat is an opinion segment on the show titled “Trump subsidies are a Band-Aid for farmers, not a solution.” Tomas Hult is Professor and Byington Endowed Chair in the Eli Broad College of Business at Michigan State University. Dr. Hult also published this piece as a an op-ed article in The Hill, with the same title, on September 24, 2018. The focus of the segment is on international trade, with a specific eye toward President Trump’s $12 billion in farm subsidies and what they may mean for the trading balance and issues with other countries and for the world. A unique side-point with everything that is going on around the world regarding trade – but important one - is that for the first time in seven years, we expect the global efficiency ratio for international trade to go down. In large part, tariffs and subsidies make the globe less efficient and more win-lose oriented.
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    8 min
  • Creating a sustainable strategy for sustainability efforts
    Hosted by Tomas Hult, this segment of the globalEDGE Business Beat is an opinion segment on the show titled “Creating a sustainable strategy for sustainability efforts.” Tomas Hult is Professor and Byington Endowed Chair in the Eli Broad College of Business at Michigan State University. Dr. Hult also published this piece as a an op-ed article in The Hill, with the same title, on September 24, 2018. The focus of the segment is on sustainability and how much cost/expenses that customers, companies, and countries are willing to take on to be more sustainable. This segment follows previous opinion segments and interviews on the globalEDGE Business Beat on the topic of sustainability. It tackles sustainability within the architectural framework of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals, a topic that Dr. Hult as spoken about at the 2016 World Investment Forum in Nairobi, Kenya, and will be a keynote on at the 2018 World Investment Forum in Geneva, Switzerland on October 26, 2018.
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    6 min
  • What does an economy with low employment, high customer satisfaction mean for the future?
    Hosted by Tomas Hult, this segment of the globalEDGE Business Beat is a dialogue with Forrest Morgeson, Director of Research for the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI). Tomas Hult is Professor and Byington Endowed Chair in the Eli Broad College of Business at Michigan State University. The American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) is the only national cross-industry measure of customer satisfaction in the United States. ACSI measures the satisfaction of U.S. household consumers with the quality of products and services offered by both foreign and domestic firms with significant share in U.S. markets. Forrest and Tomas dig a bit deeper than their recent op-ed in The Hill on “US heading toward an economy with unsatisfied customers — and voters” that was published on September 18, 2018, to better understand the data and implications for the US economy and coming elections.
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    7 min
  • U.S. heading toward an economy with unsatisfied customers— and voters
    Hosted by Tomas Hult, this segment of the globalEDGE Business Beat is an opinion segment on the show titled “US heading toward an economy with unsatisfied customers — and voters.” Tomas Hult is Professor and Byington Endowed Chair in the Eli Broad College of Business at Michigan State University. Dr. Hult also published this piece as a an op-ed article in The Hill, with the same title, on September 18, 2018 together with Dr. Forrest Morgeson, a clinical professor in MSU’s Broad College of Business. The focus of the segment is the likely scenarios of what will happen to the economy now when customer satisfaction is relatively high, unemployment the lowest it has been in about seven years, and lots of people are switching jobs. It sounds too good to be true, perhaps, and the intersection of these positive data points has implications.
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    6 min

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