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Michigan Business Network

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Michigan Business Network episodes

  • Sparrow Goes Pink for Breast Cancer Awareness Month
    Sharon Cosgrove Breast Health Navigator, Sparrow Herbert-Herman Cancer Center joins the Michigan Business Network to talk about breast cancer awareness.
    This October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and Sparrow Health System has their 29th Annual WINS Breast Cancer Celebration on Monday, Oct. 8, for survivors and their families, along with a healthy
    cooking demonstration for cancer Patients on Oct. 18 at Sparrow’s Demonstration Kitchen.
    Things to know:
    •It’s important to maintain a healthy lifestyle and to start checking at age 40 so we can catch breast cancer early.
    •Sparrow’s Patient-centered approach means every Patient is evaluated and cared for by a team, including a social worker, genetic counselor, dietician and lymphedema clinic and others.
    •Sparrow are your advocates.
    •For more information, call 1.517.364.9400 or go to sparrowcancer.org/our-services/compassionate-care/
    6 min
  • Big Success for Drug Disposal Day! | Michigan Business Network
    Sparrow and the Ingham County Sheriff’s Office sponsored a community-wide Drug Disposal Day. Community members disposed of unused or expired medications, including opioids in a effort to address the opioid crisis. The unused or expired medications were disposed in containers monitored by the Sheriff’s Office.
    As an outgrowth of Sparrow's collaboration with the Mayo Clinic, there are developing a standardized practice for managing and prescribing opioids and educating the public on their use. MBN was on hand to learn more from Ingham County Sheriff Scott Wriggelsworth and Sparrow officials.
    www.michiganbusinessnetwork.com
    3 min
  • Ken Glickman: Key Factors to Elevate Your Personal Game | Leadership Low Down
    Ken Glickman has helped countless professionals find their way in the corporate jungle. Helping hard working people in managing their careers through his work, in coaching and consulting. In this interview, Ken shares his insight on key factors to elevate your personal game.
    “Investing in ourselves is the most important investment we can make”, Ken firmly believes. So in the business environment, demonstrating and showing your worth to company leadership, can create great conversations and tremendous upward momentum to your career!
    Some of the most loyal and engaged employees, don’t take time to update their resumes. They lack critical interview experience and techniques. Ken offers great insight in the preparation of your professional story…Being ready for opportunity, no matter when or where it strikes!
    www.michiganbusinessnetwork.com
    44 min
  • Creating a Culture of Entrepreneurship on Campus | Michigan Business Beat
    Chris Holman welcomes Neil Kane, Director of Undergraduate Entrepreneurship of Michigan State University to talk about how entrepreneurship is creating a culture on college campus. Entrepreneurship is now a minor option for undergrads and embodies a resourceful and unique set of skills that can further help students in the future. MSU has around 600 students that participate in this unique program that began in the winter of 2016. The program is open to anyone across campus, in any major and in any college. For more information about the Entrepreneurship & Innovation program visit: https://entrepreneurship.msu.edu/
    Neil Kane, the quintessential serial entrepreneur, is a leading authority on technology commercialization, entrepreneurship and innovation. He is the former co-Executive Director of the Illinois Technology Enterprise Center at Argonne National Laboratory and was Entrepreneur in Residence at the University of Illinois and Northern Illinois University. He has been the CEO of startup companies in areas as diverse as consumer packaged goods, toys, nanotechnology, Internet marketplaces, medical diagnostics and energy storage.
    He holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois and an MBA from The University of Chicago. He attended graduate school at the Australian Graduate School of Management and studied in Japan on a scholarship from JETRO. Named a 2007 Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum, he twice attended their annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland. He has been recognized for Outstanding Entrepreneurship by the National Science Foundation and twice was an invited witness on technology transfer for the U.S. House of Representative’s Subcommittee on Research & Science Education. He was also a mentor in the very first cohort of NSF’s Innovation Corps (I-Corps) program taught by Steve Blank at Stanford University.
    www.michiganbusinessnetwork.com
    7 min

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