Archive for 2009
Money and the Recent Graduate
October 23rd, 2009 | post a comment
This week, we’re discussing how young people are handling the recession. If you, or someone close to you has just graduated college and is having trouble finding work, or maybe heading into college and not sure how it would be possible to pay for it you will definitely want to listen to this weeks show. [...]
Is the Recession (really) Over
October 16th, 2009 | post a comment
So the Dow is back above 10,000, 3rd Quarter GDP growth may be looking good, and Goldman Sachs is making splendid profits, but with rising double-digit unemployment, can this really be the end of the recession? We went searching for the answer to that question this week on Business Matters, and although each of our [...]
The Business of Fakery
October 9th, 2009 | 1 comment
This week we’re exploring the business of fakery, when people pretend to be one thing, and advocate some position based on that pretense, and then turn out to be something else. It’s not just businesses that get into this fakery, setting up fake grassroots groups (also called astroturfing) or using marketing to mislead consumers about [...]
The Business of Youth Sports
October 2nd, 2009 | post a comment
This week, we explore the marketplace and culture of youth sports. How are adults and our broader national culture of competition impacting childhood development? How can youth sports help kids grow up to be successful? We’ll lay out some of the challenges facing youth sports today and then talk to some innovators in the field [...]
Entrepreneurial Leadership for Small Business
September 25th, 2009 | post a comment
This week on Business Matters, we’re continuing to showcase one of our favorite topics, small businesspeople and entrepreneurs. Our guests today all have been entrepreneurs themselves, and also devoted their careers to helping others achieve success, both going into business for themselves and being leaders in the organization they’re in. Listen to the Full Episode [...]
The Business of Free
September 18th, 2009 | post a comment
This week on Business Matters we’re talking about the economy of free. From ways that large companies are increasingly offering their content either for free, or giving some of it away and charging for the rest of it with a system known as “freemium”, to the ways that individuals in their communities are operating networks [...]
Women Entrepreneur Award Winners
September 11th, 2009 | post a comment
This week on Business Matters, we’ll speak with some of the award winners from this years Entrepreneurial Women’s conference. The 23rd annual conference is held Wednesday, September 16th at Navy Pier in Chicago, and we spoke with the founder and three of their honorees ahead of the conference to learn their stories about being a [...]
The Music Show: Smaller is Better
September 4th, 2009 | post a comment
With big box music stores closing down left and right, the independent music scene has found a way to thrive and succeed in its market. We’ll speak with “the suits” at Drag City Records about their experiences as a successful indie label and also hear the artist’s perspective with indie rock band, MahJongg. Listen to [...]
The Business of School Lunch
August 28th, 2009 | 1 comment
On this week’s Business Matters, we bring you a whole show on ways that we can improve our school lunch programs. We’ll find out if it’s possible to serve healthy, natural and affordable lunches to children in an institutional setting, and give you tips on how you can get your local school district to adopt [...]
Fear and the Health Care Debate
August 21st, 2009 | post a comment
This week on Business Matters we’re examining the relationship between fear, the media, and public opinion about health care reform. We’ll look at what’s behind some of the increasingly extreme anti-Obama and anti-health care reform rhetoric. Also, we’ll explore fear has been employed to defeat reform and how can supporters of President Obama counter the [...]
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