JACKSON — More than 25 Jackson business leaders, including Mayor Harvey Johnson, former Gov. Ronnie Musgrove and State Sen. John Horhn, traveled to Washington, D.C., late last week to participate in a White House business leader briefing. Leaders from the Jackson business community provided feedback to Obama Administration officials on ways to work together to [...] [...]
HATTIESBURG — Students planning to pursue an Associate in Applied Science degree in Business Marketing and Management Technology at Pearl River Community College will have several class options available to them in the spring semester. Oone option will be the addition of two business marketing day classes on Tuesday and Thursday that will be taught [...] [...]
The first week of May, business owners along Vicksburg’s Washington Street corridor were preparing for the Mississippi River to unleash a flood the likes of which the city hadn’t seen since 1927. They were also preparing for a slow-to-non-existent summer tourist season. Nearly three months later, the water has receded, and the bulk of the [...] [...]
Bankers in Mississippi and elsewhere in the country have penciled in July 21 as the day a new era in America banking regulation begins in earnest. July 21 marks a year to the day that President Obama signed what one Mississippi banking executive calls an “absolute dramatic rewriting of the rules” of banking. Few banking [...] [...]
What responsibility does business have to society? Nobel prize recipient Milton Friedman and others have argued that a corporation’s purpose is to maximize returns to its shareholders, and that since only people can have social responsibilities, corporations are only responsible to their shareholders and not to society as a whole. Others have gone so far [...] [...]
I believe that Mississippi has an underappreciated and underutilized secret weapon in the business world. Simply put, we have a great culture of generosity and friendliness. We care about other people. Mississippi consistently is No. 1 on the Generosity Index created by the “Catalogue for Philanthropy,” which analyzes the average adjusted income of residents and the [...] [...]
Carolyn Boteler believes her employees are like family. Minutes earlier, the CEO and president of TempStaff had accepted her company’s third “Best Places to Work in Mississippi” award at the Kickoff Breakfast for the 2010 Mississippi Business & Technology EXPO at the Mississippi Trade Mart on April 7. With her management team surrounding her, Boteler [...] [...]
Decision to reduce number of days mail is delivered will hamper business The Yazoo Herald newspaper is the one place Yazooans can find out who’s getting married, who’s been arrested or what happened at the latest meeting of the county supervisors or city aldermen. The newspaper, which hits mailboxes on Wednesdays and Saturdays, also offers [...] [...]
What is your exit strategy? This is a frequent question I hear when working with investors in a business. Whether your business is investor-backed or not, this is a pertinent question. Since none of us are immortal, all entrepreneurs need to consider what will ultimately happen to their business. I find that many people simple [...] [...]
Great entrepreneurs are usually great builders. Like a real estate developer who turns an open lot into a beautiful building, an entrepreneur takes an idea and turns it into reality. In this sense, entrepreneurs are truly creative people. The business world is where they do their art. In this process, entrepreneurs create value. They create [...] [...]
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