By Shatabdi Basu, Senior Vice President of Marketing at InfoArmor
What sort of data should be considered “private?” Who is responsible for keeping it private? And what happens when that private data is shared or stolen?
Your company has recently adopted an employee benefit plan. This is great news for your employees; however, do you understand your plan document? Too often, the plan administrator and HR personnel misunderstand the document’s provisions, resulting in compliance issues and frustration.
Michigan Business Network was on the road to Grand Rapids, MI for stop #3 for the latest Michigan Economic Forecast Series.
The Right Place held its 2020 Economic Outlook for West Michigan. Speakers’ Birgit M. Klohs - President and CEO, The Right Place, Inc. and Jim Robey - Director of the Regional Economic Planning Services at the W.E. Upjohn for Employment Research were on hand to answer questions about Michigan’s economic future.
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News & Editorial from Amy Clickner and Lake Superior Community Partnership, sharing the U.P. Perspective:
In several columns, I have worked to communicate the value of investing in an economic development organization (edo) in your community. It is amazing, yet not unique to the LSCP, that being able to clearly and concisely define our value proposition or our “elevator speech”, if you will, continues to be a challenge.
News & Editorial from Amy Clickner and Lake Superior Community Partnership, sharing the U.P. Perspective:
With the holiday season underway, here in Marquette County we truly have many reasons to be thankful. We are lucky to live in this wonderful community filled with amazing organizations, businesses and people. On behalf of the LSCP, we want to thank all of our partners and stakeholders who continue to assist in economic development in our region. By working together we make Marquette County a great place to live, work, play AND shop!
Hosted by Jade Sims, this segment of the globalEDGE Business Beat is an interview with Jay Kennedy. Jay is an Assistant Professor jointly appointed to the Department of Criminal Justice and the Center for Anti-Counterfeiting and Product Protection (A-CAPP) at MSU. He focuses much of his research on brand protection issues faced by small and medium-sized enterprises, and has developed a tool for businesses to help them make better brand protection decisions and create brand protection strategies globally. You can contact the A-CAPP Center and follow their work on their website: a-capp.msu.edu/
Hosted by Jade Sims, this segment of the globalEDGE Business Beat is an interview with Kari Kammel, Assistant Director of the Center for Anti-Counterfeiting and Product Protection (A-CAPP) at MSU. Kari discusses their educational outreach efforts, including their online Professional Certificate in Anti-Counterfeiting and Brand Protection. She also talks about issues surrounding e-commerce and how companies can proactively combat intellectual property issues in that space.
You can contact the A-CAPP Center and follow their work on their website: a-capp.msu.edu/
Hosted by Jade Sims, this segment of the globalEDGE Business Beat is an interview with Jeff Rojek, Director of the Center for Anti-Counterfeiting and Product Protection (A-CAPP) at MSU. Jeff talks about the Center, his background in law enforcement and how he became interested in brand protection, and how he and his team help Michigan businesses through their research, training and certificate program, their practitioner journal The Brand Protection Professional, and their annual Brand Protection Summit held here in East Lansing.
Nationally, SBA backed more than 63,000 small business loans totaling $28+ billion in FY 19
DETROIT – The U.S. Small Business Administration’s Michigan District helped the state’s small businesses access $787 million in capital via its various loan programs in fiscal year 2019, which ended on September 30, 2019. Across the nation, the federal agency backed more than $28 billion in loans to entrepreneurs who, without the SBA, would otherwise be unable to access loans at reasonable rates.
The 15th annual Michigan Celebrates Small Business awards gala recognized awardees for the creation of 12,506 jobs and the generation of $1.6 billion of revenue.
Will your favorite small business contribute to these numbers in 2020?
