Michigan Business Network

Jeffrey Mosher welcomes Jamie DeWitt, Principal, NexTech Lansing to MBN's Michigan Business Beat. Jamie DeWitt is welcomed to the school as the new principal. DeWitt began her educational career 12 years ago and has a background in blended learning in schools throughout Michigan. She most recently comes from the position as Director of Blended Professional Learning at Michigan Virtual.

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Jeffrey MacCowan talks with Cold Box Film owners, Cooper and Tracey Spaulding about being millennial entrepreneurs.

Jeffrey MacCowan talks with Cold Box Film owners, Cooper and Tracey Spaulding about being millennial entrepreneurs.

Jeffrey Mosher welcomes Amy Busch, Human Resources Manager, Bekum America Corporation which is a CAMW! MVP organization. Bekum America Corporation is where many household and name brand containers begin. They produce several everyday products for a variety of industries including ag chem, apparel, automotive, canisters, dairy, food and beverage, household products, industrial packaging, lubricants, medical, personal care and technical parts. Six different skilled trades positions are essential in the creation of their products. This includes electricians, welders, machine assemblers, machinists, field service technicians and mechatronics professionals.

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Should the U.S. be part of more Regional Trade Agreements?

Hosted by Tomas Hult, this segment of the globalEDGE Business Beat is an opinion segment on the show titled “Should the U.S. be part of more Regional Trade Agreements?” 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 globalEDGE Blog post, with the same title, on August 24, 2018. It was also featured by the Broad College of Business at Michigan State University. The focus of the segment is the tremendous “global efficiencies” that can be realized by engaging in more free and fair trade agreements. After all, we expect the value of world trade to be about 167 times larger in 2020 than it was in 1960, and the world economy to be 65 times larger in the same span. And, the reason trade is carrying more value than what is being manufactured has to do with cultivating global efficiencies. Participating in Regional Trade Agreements is one major driving force in realizing these production efficiencies.

Founder of Michigan Business Network, Chris Holman catches up with Regional Administrator of the Small Business Association (SBA), Robert Scott at the 2018 Great lakes Lenders Conference in Detroit August 16th. Among the highlights of the video shared below, they cover the top two issues that small businesses are facing.

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Jeffrey Mosher catches up with Patrick Harrison, Human Resource Supervisor of Dean Transportation. Patrick talks about how Dean Transportation was named CAMW! MVP of the Month.

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Bryan Finnerty, co-founder and CEO of ProtectCell, is on the Be Investable podcast discussing how he took his company from zero dollars in revenue to $125 million in six years. Find out the key to getting traction and why success to Bryan is not looking at some type of scorecard.

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Steve Purdy and A.J. Baime provide an update on the Automotive Heritage Awards we talked about on our last program. They presented a series of awards for journalism, special automobiles and one for lifetime achievement at the Concours d’Elegance of America at St. Johns. GM executive vice president, Mark Reuss, was there to accept the Future Collectible Vehicle of the Year award from the National Automotive History Collection and the Mercedes Maybach Cabriolet won the Concept Vehicle of the Year honor. Most important is the AHA Lifetime Achievement Award that went to veteran columnist for Road & Track and Cycle World magazines, Peter Egan.

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This episode of A Shunpiker's Journal features best-selling author A.J. Baime talking about his masterfully written 4-program series of half-hour stories for the Wondery Business Wars podcast detailing a century of automotive history centered on the epic competition between Ford and Chevrolet. Mr. Baime is a regular contributor to The Wall Street Journal as well as author of five books about important historical topics. One of his books, Go Like Hell, chronicles the conflict between Henry Ford II and Enzo Ferrari that resulted in Ford building a race car that beat the unbeatable Ferraris at Le Mans.