Taking Stock of the Current Situation
The data is grim at every level — local, state, and national. Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.), the House Majority Whip, says that unemployment is hitting close to 24% in Sumter County, SC. Michigan has over 11.6% unemployment.
This month I interviewed Jeff Shuman, vice president of human resources and corporate relations for the Harris Corporation.
We need to stop saying it’s not our fault there is no infrastructure to deliver healthcare and start saying, ‘Who can we work with to ensure that the infrastructure does exist?’
Microsoft, Target and Wal-Mart do a great job making a positive difference in their communities, according to their peers in the business community.
As we look back at 2008, we’ve seen three bubbles pop: housing, energy, and finance.
For the first time, FEMA invited a private sector organization — namely BCLC — to sit in a Joint Field Office as they coordinate the response to a major storm, in this case, Hurricane Ike. So Ollie Davidson and I jumped on a plane on a Tuesday and went down to Austin where the JFO is headquarter
by Jessica Jackley Flannery, Co-Founder of Kiva
by Israel Moreno Barcel, CEMEX
by Scott Noesen, The Dow Chemical Company
by Justine Frain, Ph.D., GlaxoSmithKline
