Small Business Spotlight

Episodes

• Small Business Spotlight podcast: How an independent furniture retailer survives

  14 Oct 2022 00:07:37

• Small Business Spotlight: Planted Detroit grows sustainable salad business

  16 Sep 2022 00:09:35

• Small Business Spotlight podcast: Manufacturing business owners work to diversify industry, give back

  15 Aug 2022 00:09:41

• Small Business Spotlight podcast: Avalon bakery's Jackie Victor on creating community

  25 Jun 2022 00:12:06

• Small Business Spotlight podcast: Summer hiring outlook

  15 May 2022 00:11:05

• Small Business Spotlight podcast: Tips for choosing office space

  24 Apr 2022 00:10:20

• It's tax season: What small businesses should know in 2022

  18 Mar 2022 00:14:33

• Nonprofit turns to tech to save, bolster events

  23 Oct 2021 00:15:03

• How Dan Gilbert’s philanthropy is being spread across Detroit

  24 Sep 2021 00:13:26

• MHA’s Brian Peters and Chris Mitchell discuss hospital staffing crisis in fourth surge of COVID cases

  22 Sep 2021 00:19:59

• Deloitte’s David Parent on the future of the workplace – and where people will work

  22 Sep 2021 00:14:35

• Mackinac conference: New MEDC CEO Quentin Messer Jr. on Michigan’s economic development toolbox

  22 Sep 2021 00:14:49

• Gov. Whitmer talks state budget, COVID-19 and auto insurance reform at Mackinac Policy Conference

  22 Sep 2021 00:09:50

• John Rakolta talks UAE ambassadorship, Walbridge construction industry growth, growing education “crisis” in Michigan

  21 Sep 2021 00:16:55

• Marathon refinery GM Dave Leaver on the refinery’s home-purchase program

  21 Sep 2021 00:07:03

• Conrad Mallett: Duggan to come out in favor of Detroit reparations ballot proposal

  21 Sep 2021 00:14:03

• Detroit Future City CEO: Private sector ready to make equity changes ‘we have not seen before’

  21 Sep 2021 00:13:09

• Bollinger Motors CEO Robert Bollinger on taking a different road to electric trucks – and why the auto business is hard

  21 Sep 2021 00:13:22

• Mackinac conference: Detroit CFO Jay Rising: Sports betting, casino taxes are “savior” of city budget this year

  21 Sep 2021 00:13:30

• Mackinac conference: HAP CEO Michael Genord on the lessons of COVID

  21 Sep 2021 00:14:01

• Duggan talks re-election campaign, towing, Detroit infrastructure issues at Mackinac Policy Conference

  21 Sep 2021 00:13:02

• Mackinac conference: DTE Energy Vice Chairman Dave Meador talks workforce development, tree-trimming and burying power lines

  21 Sep 2021 00:20:38

• Mackinac conference: Lt. Gov. Gilchrist talks transit, equity, state budget and pandemic lessons learned

  21 Sep 2021 00:13:46

• Mackinac conference: Soon-to-retire Antoine Garibaldi on why Detroit Mercy is expanding to Novi, what’s next

  20 Sep 2021 00:16:50

• Consumers Energy CEO Garrick Rochow: Time to rethink utility industry’s resistance to burying power lines

  20 Sep 2021 00:14:17

• Crain’s kicks off podcast interviews from the Mackinac Policy Conference

  20 Sep 2021 00:13:10

• How outsourcing can ease the workload

  28 Aug 2021 00:13:41

• Staying ahead of the game in a pandemic

  22 Jul 2021 00:18:50

• How to stay alive in a changing industry

  27 Jun 2021 00:10:10

• The rewards and challenges of gig work

  20 May 2021 00:16:53

• Michael Lee on WJR: Decade of decline for recycling | Home care caps

  26 Apr 2021 00:07:36

• Detroit Flower Co. owner learns to run her business on the fly

  19 Feb 2021 00:25:14

• Planning an infrastructure future without flooded freeways, basements in metro Detroit

  28 Dec 2020 00:26:57

• Beyond the pandemic: Will new college scholarship program help frontline workers gain new skills for future jobs?

  21 Dec 2020 00:26:53

• Challenges ahead for distributing COVID-19 vaccines in Detroit, Michigan; a chat with the Oakland County attorney who runs the IVaccinate.org campaign

  9 Dec 2020 00:22:05

• Abdul El-Sayed talks public health infrastructure, Whitmer's handling of COVID-19 pandemic and his future in politics

  21 Nov 2020 00:29:32

• Eric Larson: Downtown Detroit retailers, restaurants struggling after seven months of pandemic downturn, steep decline in patrons and visitors

  28 Oct 2020 00:31:05

• Black women-owned staffing agency in Detroit sees growth opportunities in energy, aerospace and entertainment industries

  22 Oct 2020 00:22:37

• MEDC CEO talks new FCA plant and auto supplier opportunities in Detroit, community redevelopment and revived Pure Michigan ad campaign

  9 Oct 2020 00:20:21

• From streetscape project to COVID-19, Narrow Way Café navigates adversity on Detroit's Livernois Avenue of Fashion

  8 Oct 2020 00:17:13

• FCA's Mark Stewart talks about Detroit's new Jeep plant, challenges with COVID-19 and job opportunities for Detroiters

  16 Sep 2020 00:26:46

• Detroit ed tech startup delivering science to students learning at home

  3 Sep 2020 00:22:25

• Nikolai Vitti on Detroit Public Schools' reopening plans, education funding equity and deteriorating buildings

  13 Aug 2020 00:22:06

• Rocket Companies COO Bob Walters on Dan Gilbert's mortgage company going public, stock for employees, future of Quicken Loans brand and returning to the office

  6 Aug 2020 00:17:37

• Meeko Williams: Mandatory police residency would help officers connect with Detroiters

  26 Jul 2020 00:21:42

• Warren Evans: Requiring police officers to live in Detroit a 'great concept' but 'very impractical' to enforce

  24 Jul 2020 00:34:07

• Can solar energy turn Detroit's vacant lots into profit?

  15 Jul 2020 00:14:18

• How auto insurance reform is supposed to drive down premiums in Detroit

  1 Jul 2020 00:31:56

• Skidmore Studio growing an online farmers market from Detroit for Michigan food producers

  24 Jun 2020 00:25:24

• Detroit’s decision-making tables need more African Americans, Hudson-Webber Foundation CEO Melanca Clark says

  10 Jun 2020 00:23:00