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CAU's New CFP Program!

2013-11-22T17:32:00.002-05:00

Job outlook bright for personal financial planners Source: ajc.com

2013-11-22T16:17:00.001-05:00

draft FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contacts: Donna Brock 404-880-8337 dbrock@cau.edu Larry Calhoun 404-880-6040 lcalhoun@cau.edu THE CLARK ATLANTA UNIVERSITY (CAU) SCHOOL OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION TO BE INDUCTED INTO THE ATLANTA TRIBUNE: THE MAGAZINE’S HALL OF FAME DEC. 5 ATLANTA (Nov. 20, 2013) – The Clark Atlanta University (CAU) School of Business Administration is among four “education icons” to be inducted into the Atlanta Tribune: The Magazine’s 15th Annual Hall of Fame Dec. 5, at 7 p.m., at the 755 Club at Turner Field, 755 Hank Aaron Drive, S.W. Pat Lottier, publisher of the magazine, said, “To quote Dr. Benjamin E. Mays, ‘Every man and woman is born into this world to do something unique and distinctive and if he or she does not do it, it will never be done.’ Our Hall of Fame inductees have taken unique steps to favorably impact young people inside the classroom and the community. We are proud to share their stories with the Atlanta community.” (more) Atlanta Tribune Hall of Fame, Page 2 CAU President Carlton E. Brown said, “We are honored for such recognition from an eminent business lifestyle publication as the Atlanta Tribune, a media mainstay of the Atlanta business scene for nearly three decades. At CAU, our business students continue to amaze us, as they compete on the local and national levels with such success. This year alone, under the leadership of interim Dean Charles Moses, D.M., CAU student groups won the Central Intelligence Agency’s Analytic Simulation Competition and the National Black MBA Chrysler Case Competition, beating more than 30 national business schools, including Emory University, in the latter.” The CAU School of Business is one of the top 10 producers of African-American business professionals in the nation. Throughout its rich history, CAU has awarded more than 10,000 baccalaureate degrees in business administration and more than 3,000 MBA degrees. Students are drawn from more than 40 states and 30 countries. The mission of the CAU School of Business is to prepare diverse students to become managers, entrepreneurs, educators and leaders by providing a quality educational experience grounded in sound, ethical principles. The other Hall of Fame honorees are the Ron Clark Academy, a training module for more than 10,000 educators from around the world, focusing on 5th through 8th graders; Dr. Dorothy Cowser Yancy, president of Shaw University; and the Youth Entrepreneurs Program, which involves students in the Atlanta Public and DeKalb County school systems in one-on-one engagement with business professionals. The Atlanta Tribune’s Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony is proudly supported by TIAA-CREF, UPS, Atlanta Braves, Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, The Coca-Cola Company, Delta Air Lines, Fulton-DeKalb Hospital Authority, Georgia Lottery and PNC Bank. Proceeds from this event will benefit the George A. Lottier Scholarship Foundation, which provides scholarships for deserving college students. ###

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2013-11-22T14:49:00.001-05:00

Heresy 2.0 — The Sudanese Thinker

2011-01-30T21:50:00.000-05:00

Heresy 2.0 — The Sudanese Thinker

Sudan Referendum

2011-01-10T15:34:00.000-05:00

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Sudan Faces a Brave New Possibility
By: Charles T. Moses
Posted: January 7, 2011 at 6:47 PM

Will the upcoming referendum in Southern Sudan herald a brand-new future for Africa's 55th nation? Or does it mean the start of another really bloody civil war?

KHARTOUM, SUDAN -- The run-up before Sunday's referendum on whether Southern Sudan should secede from the North has prompted widespread speculation over whether the outcome will cause renewed bloodshed and dissolution or herald the founding of Africa's 55th nation. Not since the United Nations vote on the partition of Palestine in 1947 has so much depended on the outcome of a regional ballot initiative, and few nations have been at the nexus of more complexity, with race, religion, economics, the environment, politics and history all key to understanding the dynamics of this long-awaited plebiscite and the future of tens of millions of people.

Unlike the U.N. vote on the Palestinian partition, in this case only Southern Sudanese can vote on cessation. Millions of them actually live elsewhere, having fled to bordering countries and to the North in the aftermath of the ongoing bloodshed. Now they are returning to the region to cast their ballots, many bringing all of their earthly belongings with the intention of permanently resettling in their new country -- which today is a place with no infrastructure, no clear rules and no clearly demarcated borders.

Police and troops are increasing their presence here and elsewhere around the country, and tensions are high. Tens of thousands of election monitors, led by the U.N. and the African Union, are here, and there is widespread speculation that rampant vote rigging will take place. There is also a heightened sense of anticipation that the expected secession could signal a return to hostilities, both between the North and South as well as among militias in the south. Others hope for enough time to develop what the fledgling nation will need most: a stable civil apparatus and a viable oil-revenue-sharing agreement with the North.

As Africa's largest country, Sudan has long sat at the confluence of seemingly disparate forces: Arab and African; Christian and Muslim; first world and developing world. Opponents of cessation say that the county can accommodate opposing thrusts. But proponents argue that balancing these interests is virtually impossible. One oft-cited issue is Northern Sudan's Shariah law, which Christian and animist Southerners say holds inherent disadvantages for them.

Sudan has long been home to epic violence and bloodshed between the non-Muslim South and the Islamic North. An estimated 2 million have died; millions more have been displaced. In 2005 the Bush administration characterized the killings as "genocide." Since 1997 the U.S. has imposed economic sanctions on Sudan.

The country has become another proxy for economic and cultural wars whose genesis lies beyond its borders, as major powers jockey for control of its vast oil resources, located mainly in what is now the South. Add to this the estimated 132 tribes spread among Sudan and its neighbors, and the fact that whole regions of the country are full of religious and ethnic fervor -- and weapons.

Early polling indicates that a majority of Southerners favor separation. Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, under indictment by the International Criminal Court for war crimes committed in Darfur, and under intense pressure from the U.S. and elsewhere, says that he will support the outcome. Bashir says this despite the widespread belief by Northerners that the U.S. and other outside forces are promoting cessation both to gain access to the oil and because of the Bashir regime's past support for radical Islamic regimes elsewhere in the region.

China has played the superpower role in Sudan and has access to the country's oil via its relationship with the Bashir regime, a relationship that some in the Bashir regime argue is merely expedient. "If the regime had not developed the oil relationships we have, we would not be in power," says one high-ranking government official. The question for Khartoum, he added, is "whether it should jeopardize its relationship with China in the hope for a quick end to the U.S. sanctions … I don't think so!"

Yet the economics raise an issue regarding Bashir's promises: The oil cannot get to its markets unless the landlocked South makes a deal with his government to pipe the oil to the coast, where it can be sent to the world's markets. The North will be hard-pressed if there is a significant and continuing loss of oil revenues. "There may well be two states after the vote," the government official said. "But there will also be integration."

Compounding the problem is the complex and tense relationship between armed militias in Southern Sudan. The Obama administration -- anxious to avoid condemnation for failing to act to stop the bloodshed, as was the case with the Clinton administration in Rwanda in 1994 -- has invested considerable resources in Sudan.

In the six years since a fragile peace agreement was forged between the North and South, the international community has also devoted considerable attention to Sudan. Yet many here wonder where the help will come from if hostilities break out in the aftermath of the expected secession. Few expect a quick end to the U.S. sanctions. Instead, the U.S. is expected to provide key support for Southern Sudan, and some speculate that it might even base its new Africa Command there.

If the vote goes as expected, the capital of the new nation will be Juba, a major city in the South. At its inception, Southern Sudan will have 10 states divided among three regions but little shared infrastructure, which causes some to suspect that the two countries will remain deeply interconnected for the foreseeable future. It remains unclear how this rural nation will create an effective collective-action apparatus to end tensions between nomadic herders and farmers, also a source of ongoing strife. "Juba cannot exist without Khartoum," says one official, "but Khartoum can exist without Juba."

Charles T. Moses teaches at the Clark Atlanta University School of Business and is a co-author of "Darfur: Making Peace Not War -- the Path to Peace," a policy paper on the conflict in Sudan. He is observing the referendum and will be providing reports on its aftermath.

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Coca-Cola and PepsiCo in South Africa: A Landmark Case in Corporate Social Responsibility, Ethical Dilemmas, and the Challenges of International Business - Journal of African Business

2010-09-24T14:55:00.000-04:00

Coca-Cola and PepsiCo in South Africa: A Landmark Case in Corporate Social Responsibility, Ethical Dilemmas, and the Challenges of International Business - Journal of African Business

News about Charles!!!

2010-04-18T14:49:00.000-04:00

Moses named Fulbright fellow!!!!

2010-04-05T20:01:00.000-04:00

http://weatherhead.case.edu/about/news/detail.cfm?idNews=1483

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2010-01-29T11:31:00.001-05:00

2009-11-08T15:59:00.000-05:00

ENTREPRENEURIAL EMERGENCE: KEY CONGRUENCE FACTORS AND COMMUNITY PROCESSES

Charles T. Moses

Young Kim

Donald Vest

Clark Atlanta University

ABSTRACT

This study details some of the key antecedents for inner city economic development and asks how some communities seem better able to manage their economic lives than others. The authors designed a model that identifies key individual and community-level variables predictive of higher levels of sustainable and profitable businesses in communities. The authors developed a 64-item survey that was completed by 270 entrepreneurs in the United States. A number of hypotheses asserting predictability between social capital related variables and outcomes were supported. Moderation was additionally established for one interaction variable as a predictor of sustainability. This study builds on work which seeks to understand key individual, firm and community level precursors for entrepreneurial emergence, and it sets the stage for additional empirical work in the area of entrepreneurial assistance program design and implementation.

INTRODUCTION

Entrepreneurs are the lifeblood of a community. The existence of a critical mass of locally-owned enterprises in a community, it can be argued, means that: 1.) there are at least some people in the community who have the talent and initiative to start businesses; 2.) that there is a market for the goods and services they produce and; 3.) that there is potential for local entrepreneurs to provide employment and other economic benefits beyond the immediate ambit of their business (Bates 1989).

Yet success typically requires that entrepreneurial ventures leave their communities of origin in search of opportunities not locally available while failure means the loss of jobs and opportunity, both for the entrepreneur and others. This is the Schumpeterian contract and it can run counter to a community’s need and desire for entrepreneurial sustainability. Viewed from the perspective of communities in need of local businesses the burgeoning firm can even be said to symbolize economic liberation. Counterintuitively then, success often results in failure: if a firm grows beyond the ability of a community to meet its needs, then communities with limited histories of successful entrepreneurialism lose yet another important source of jobs and leadership. This is the utilitarian dimension of the rational choice argument. There is also the social dimension: entrepreneurs also seek non-monetary rewards in the form of greater recognition and mainstream validation in the communities in which they locate their businesses (Scott 2000).

Communities want businesses which employ local people, purchase goods and services from other businesses in the community, which offer low prices, high quality, and good service. The business cycle often requires that winners often need to access outside (bridging) networks for markets and resources that local communities may be unable to provide, while also utilizing local (bonding) networks for information and other non-financial resources.

BACKGROUND OF THIS STUDY

This study lays the groundwork for further work that utilizes the relationships detailed here to aid in entrepreneurial program development and implementation. The authors identified key community situated variables that predict desirable outcomes as precursors for entrepreneurial emergence. Data was collected from 270 entrepreneurs across the U.S. The policy implication of this study is that there should be a better alignment between entrepreneurial needs, social capital characteristics and government entrepreneurial assistance programs.

Understanding the concept of entrepreneurial emergence requires that the theorist clarify issues such as the perspective from which the entrepreneurial activity is to be viewed. Early theories on the topic pitted the self-interested, heroic, entrepreneur against all manner of forces (Schumpeter 1911, Smith 1776).

LITERATURE REVIEW

Recent scholarship has argued for a social constituted view of entrepreneurship (see Conceptualizing Entrepreneurial Emergence below). This is the line of inquiry along which this study proceeds.The authors build on theories advanced by Dodd (2007) Aldrich and Zimmer (1986), and others, who attempt to reconcile over socialized and under socialized views of entrepreneurial activity. This study asserts the primacy of empowerment, which encompasses concepts of decentralized action and increased agency (.e.g. capacity to make relevant decisions that affect their own lives and which impact institutions) (Giddens 1986, Rubin and Rubin 1986).

A more prosaic school of discussion concerns itself with the best way to promulgate entrepreneurial development. Views range from those who believe that even the most beleaguered inner cities possess the potential to become development hubs, a downtown redux of sorts, to those who believe that the best way to think about developing a brisk entrepreneurial climate is to focus on the development of linkages to surrounding areas. Prominent proponents of the first view include Michael Porter (1998), who sees the inner city as harboring significant competitive advantages, among them location, access to areas of increased demand and underutilized human resources. Those of the second view include scholars like Avis Vidal (1995) and (Kretzman and McKnight 1995). The authors of this study construe these arguments to be questions of locus of control (Rotter 1966, Paulhus 1983). Locus of control theory was originally applied to the individual and refers to the degree to which people believe they control events in their lives. In the context of this research this theory is concerned with the degree to which entrepreneurs’ believe that they control the destiny of their businesses.

CONCEPTUALIZING ENTREPRENURIAL EMERGENCE

There are a number of conceptual models that use multidisciplinary approaches to explain entrepreneurial emergence in the community context. Gittell and Vidal (1998), drawing from the literature on community development, explain the impact of institutional networks on the efficient organization for production in an economic setting. At the nexus of their model are the social, political and economic relations necessary to successfully undertake economic payoffs. The model in this proposal utilizes some of Gittell and Vidal’s (1998) precepts: “the interaction among program and organizational design and implementation attributes, external agents and intermediaries, and local contextual elements yields a set of intermediate outcomes that can eventually lead to more substantial outputs and sustainable community development” (p., 23).

Ahiarah (1993) integrates four classes of explanatory factors in his understanding of the success of black business in America: psychological, situational (environmental), product/service, and process or decisional. More recent theorists have attempted to reconcile viewpoints of the entrepreneur contextually. Granovetter (1973 & 1983) is among those who concluded that economic activity is embedded in social relationships which affect “neoclassical predictions of atomistic social behavior.” (quoted from Thornton 1999, pg. 30). Thornton integrated what she termed “supply” and “demand” side perspectives of entrepreneurship using ecological and institutional theories and multilevel models (1999). The authors of this study argue that entrepreneurial emergence is socially constituted and that entrepreneurial involvements, measured here as commitment, influence, networks and orientation, lead to sustainable and profitable businesses.

HYPOTHESES

The following hypotheses are formulated:

Hypothesis1: The greater the commitment of local communities to entrepreneurs’ business concerns, the greater entrepreneurs’ perception as to their businesses’ sustainability. This hypothesis is adapted from the literature on social capital (Putnam 1993), and Granovetter 1973) and community economic development (Gittell and Vidal 1998).

Hypothesis 2: The greater the commitment of local communities to entrepreneurs’ business concerns, the greater the entrepreneurs’ perception as to their businesses’ profitability. This hypothesis is also adapted from the literature on social capital and community economic development (Gittell and Vidal 1998).

Hypothesis3 and Hypothesis 4: Entrepreneurial orientation positively affects their perception of the prospects for their businesses’ sustainability and profitability. This is the affective quality of local entrepreneurial activity. Do local entrepreneurs’ feel that they play a strong role in the community? Do they act as economic leaders only, or do they involve themselves in a broad range of community activities? And how does the longevity of their business shape their view of their role in the community?

Hypothesis5 and Hypothesis 6: Networks positively affects sustainability and profitability. Networks are framed by a paradigm ranging from a strong preoccupation with extra community networks (bridging) to a strong preoccupation with intra community networks (bonding). Those interested in designing programs to help inner city entrepreneurs should first understand the type and depth of networks extant in a community. Woolcock (2001) describes social capital as a “double edged sword. On the one hand, it can provide community members with a familiar menu of benefits, ranging from baby-sitting to house minding and emergency cash. But there is also a downside in that those same ties can place enormous non-economic claims on members’ obligations and commitments.”

Hypothesis 7: Entrepreneurial influence positively affects sustainability and Hypothesis 8, entrepreneurial influence positively affects profitability. Exercising business and civic leadership increases an entrepreneurs’ confidence in their ability to develop profitable businesses. Is there a seamless relationship between the influence that entrepreneurs seek, or have, when it comes to business matters, or is there an adversarial ethos? Bockmeyer (2000) describes how distrust of local economic development institutions and programs causes inefficiencies and lowers community and outside expectations for growth and viability.

Hypothesis 9: Orientation moderates the influence of commitment on sustainability and Hypothesis10: Orientation moderates the influence of commitment on profitability. These interaction terms reflect an entrepreneurs’ reliance on proximate ties on the one hand (commitment) and their tendency to seek help outside of their community for key business issues (orientation).

Hypothesis11: Networks moderates the influence of commitment on sustainability and Hypothesis12: Networks moderates the relationship of commitment on profitability. These are adapted from Ahiariah’s (1993) “success factors” (p. 23) definition of business success. It is defined for purposes of this study as an entrepreneurs’ perception of the prospects that the networks accessible to them increase the chances that their businesses will return a profit.

Hypothesis13: Orientation moderates influence on sustainability and; Hypothesis14: Orientation moderates the influence on profitability. This is the interaction of entrepreneurs’ perception of the degree of community support for business concerns and their belief that outsiders have some power over their business affairs Does entrepreneurs’ perceived ability to influence key events impacting their business increase their businesses chance for sustainability? Do they believe that key events in the community are locally controlled or controlled elsewhere? This hypothesis is adapted from Paulhus (1983) and Rotter (1966).

Hypotheis15: Networks moderates the influence of influence on sustainability and: Hypothesis16: Networks moderates the influence of influence on profitability. This interaction deals with entrepreneurs’ perceived belief in the degree to which they think that business concerns are given voice by local institutions and the type of networks available.

METHODS AND RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

This study was originally designed to utilize a combination of primary and secondary data. The authors’ thinking, based on experiences with two previous entrepreneurially focused research projects, was that this would provide the best opportunity to collect sufficient data from busy entrepreneurs.

The survey was pretested and piloted on approximately 20 respondents, then inputted on the Survey Monkey website (http://www.surveymonkey.com). Entrepreneurs were identified through business-oriented online list servers. In all, approximately 5,000 business owners were identified. Each was emailed a query over a six-week period in the spring of 2004, asking them to participate in the study and directing them to an online link where the 64-item survey could be located. Approximately 3,500 emails were returned to the author as undeliverable. The balance, approximately 1,500, resulted in responses from 270 entrepreneurs, a 15 percent response rate. To qualify respondents had to: 1.) own, or have a significant interest in, a business located in an urban area and, 2.) be willing to provide a name and city for their business.Unless otherwise noted, this study utilizes a 5-point Likert-response format to measure the variables (1 = strongly disagree; 5 = strongly agree), or (1 = Not helpful, 5 = very helpful).

Approximately 65 percent of respondents ranged in age from 35 to 44, 60 percent were male, 52 percent identified themselves as either black or African American or Latino/a; 62 percent reported that they had a college education or beyond; 21 percent were Protestant and 60 percent owned service sector businesses (see Table 1 below). The demographics are comparable to those in similar studies (Dadzie and Cho, 1989).

Please go to the link below to see the entire study!!!

2007-12-15T15:28:00.004-05:00

INTERNATIONALIZING THE BUSINESS FACULTY VIA AN
INTERNATIONAL SPRING TOUR: IMPLICATIONS FOR AACSB
ACCREDITED HISTORICALLY BLACK COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY
BUSINESS PROGRAMS

Donald Vest, Clark Atlanta University, USA

Charles Moses, Clark Atlanta University, USA

ABSTRACT

In today’s global economy, the internationalization of the business faculty is a dire necessity. As the intellectual and driving force of academic institutions, a cadre of faculty, or indeed the entire faculty, must participate in the internationalization paradigm shift. The International Spring Tour provides first-hand, experiential learning to faculty participants and represents one of the many creative and holistic ways to internationalize. Although augmenting traditional foreignexchanges, which range from summer programs to yearly Fulbright awards, the International Spring Tour, unlike traditional exchange programs, only lasts two weeks and takes place during spring break. This, in turn, causes little disruption in the responsibilities and lifestyles of the participants while helping to internationalize the college, curriculum, faculty, and students.

INTRODUCTION

Under the status quo, internationalizing the business curriculum presupposes that the business faculty is mindful of the importance of international business and capable of teaching it to various academic constituents, namely students. Since students rely on faculty as their primary source of information (Webb et al., 1999), academic institutions must focus on initiatives that facilitate and expedite the internationalization process, especially sending faculty abroad. In 1993, 25-business faculty from HBCUs, met at UCLA as part of the Nissan HBCU Summer Institute to discuss ways to internationalize the college and business curriculum at HBCUs (Joshi, 1993). Pedagogical issues regarding infusing internationalization into the business curriculum and international faculty exchange programs were the focus of the weeklong conference. “More and more students attending traditionally black colleges and universities are receiving undergraduate business degrees, a trend that bodes well for increasing the number of African Americans in business। But while Black colleges are proud of their business programs, they continue to strive for increased involvement from corporate America and improvements in their teaching of such topics as entrepreneurship and international business” (Joshi, August 14, 1993, p।1)।

Recently, a collaborative internationalization initiative, launched by the Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER) and 11 Historically Black Colleges and Universities, was designed to develop stronger international business programs (Banerji, 2002). “Specifically, the initiative will help 11 Black schools recruit qualified faculty for international affairs and business courses, offer more international affairs and foreign language courses and expand overseas internship programs for students” (Banerji, 2002, p.1).

INTERNATIONALIZATION IMPETUS AT AMERICAN BUSINESS SCHOOLS

Excluding internationalization initiatives undertaken by colleges and universities on their own accord, in recent times, the impetus behind the internationalization of American business schools has been caused by two major factors: corporate leaders who seek to hire graduates who can handle international responsibilities (Webb et al., 1999) and accrediting boards such as the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB), formerly known as the American Assembly of Collegiate Schools of Business, who require their accredited schoolsto internationalize (Turley & Shannon, 1999)।

According to Shetty and Rudell (2000), “The purpose of internationalizing business education is to increase the competence of the managers trained by business schools for doing business globally” (p. 104). A study by Kwok et al., (1994) revealed that working abroad received the highest mean score, followed by interacting with people of other cultures, and finally studying and traveling abroad (Webb et al., 1999). Another study that compared business programs in the United States to programs in Canada, Latin America, Western Europe and Japan revealed that the U.S. faculty had lower levels of international expertise than their overseas counterparts (Webb et al., 1999). And in particular, European schools were more likely to include the participation in internationalization initiatives as a formal part of faculty evaluations for promotion and tenure decisions (Shetty & Rudell, 2000). The other force causing a paradigm shift in the internationalization of business education is the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (Keating & Byles, 1991). “Partly in response to these exhortations, but
also because business educators themselves had become aware that all business graduates must have some knowledge of international business, the American Assembly of Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB), in 1974, broadened its standards to require that business curricula reflect the worldwide as well as the domestic aspects of business” (Ball & McCulloch, 1993, p. 1). Manuel et al. (2002) report, “Internationalization of the business
curriculum is mandated by the American Assembly of Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) and other accrediting agencies, but the accrediting bodies have recognized that there is no one best way to achieve this goal” “Since the mid-1990s, when accreditation standards changed to include more schools, an outpouring of support from companies pushing diversity sent Black B-schools on an improvement frenzy” (Merritt, 2001, p. 3).

According to the White House Initiative on HBCUs (www.ed.gov), there are 89 four-year HBCUs, of which 76 have business programs. According to the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, the following 20 HBCU business programs are accredited:

Clark Atlanta University
Delaware State University
Fayetteville State University
Grambling State University
Howard University
Jackson State University
Morehouse College
Morgan State University
Norfolk State University
North Carolina A&T State University
North Carolina Central University
Prairie View State University
Savannah State University
South Carolina State University
Southern University and A&M College
Tennessee State University
Texas Southern University
Tuskegee University
Winston-Salem State University
Virginia State University

For the full article, please follow the link below!

2007-11-12T16:25:00.000-05:00

Tomorrow’s business leaders will need to be astute global strategists, able to anticipate and create opportunities across time and space while delivering focused and high quality customer service as if they are the proprietors of the corner grocery. Preparing business school students for these prospects seems a daunting challenge, the idea being to cram as much wit in their heads as possible and praying that as they prosper that they also gain a sense of wisdom and commitment to ethics.

Fortunately, the gap between the developed and developing world is closing as developed world businesses continue to be obsessed with reducing costs. This has been a boon for some economies in the developing world. I am increasingly optimistic that trade in the opposite direction will balance out, as revenues from outsourcing provide opportunities for profitable value added activities.

Well trained and ambitious business students have options: take the well beaten path which is to get a corporate job, albeit with the understanding that corporate life these days is transient at best. Or they can consider a less obvious trajectory: start their own businesses where they are now. Reaching the developed world from the developing world has never been more possible. Our students will need to skilled at understanding how to do so profitably.

Business is nothing if not values laden. In some places, a businessperson’s handshake is binding. In others not even the most exquisitely worded legal agreement can bind the deal. The problem has been that business in most places continues to be dominated by the usual suspects. This, in turn, means that most of the cases we teach in business school deal only with the experiences of those already in power. I get excited about helping to train new businesspeople; whether they aspire to be corporate CEO’s or create the world’s next great business from scratch. I often long for textbooks and cases in which the scenarios and actors more closely resemble those I teach.

One of the best things about working with business students in a nation like Jamaica is that one gets the sense that as more and more students go forward, that the possibility exists that this and other societies can be positively transformed. Yes, learn all you can, I tell my students, but don’t forget who you are and from where you come.
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2007-04-25T00:04:00.000-04:00

Newtown Stationary: Getting Communities Back Into the Economic Development Game
Research Paper
Summary:Today’s inner cities can be places in which entrepreneurs, availing themselves of vertical and horizontal networks of business and community interests, can prosper. Government interventions such as the empowerment zone initiatives have generally not been successful in developing the indigenous entrepreneurial base in the inner city. Using the case of a single entrepreneur, this study explores alternative networking, inner city economics and the problem of failed statist policies as regards inner city economic development. It continues existing work aimed at deconstructing narratives that hold that inner cities lack effective reciprocal networks that would aid in economic development and details the experience of a single entrepreneur in attempting to change the power relations within her community. It aims at a more complete integration of community concerns in the development and execution of community development interventions.

2007-04-24T23:39:00.000-04:00

Somebody out there help me. The recent dance over Imus' comments seems like deju vu...all over again! The usual suspects trot out the predictable set of warmed over ideas. African Americans are expected to apologize for the nominal benefits a few receive from hip hop smut, while whites can feel superior because, after all, Imus'got his verbal ammunition from African Americans in the first place.Last time I checked, few African Americans controlled music distribution, in the US or anywhere else. Granted, we write and perform the songs, but -- as is the case in history -- we don't sign ourselves to contracts, book tours, and roll ourselves up in the billions the music generats.Yet African Americans are expected to apologize for creating hip hop culture. Apologize to who? For what? Our system has reached its highest level. Those who control the media and public opinion have gotten the art of target shifting down to a science. Want to deflect public attention from the basic problem of an amoral economic system? Turn the discussion away from fundamental ideas. Focus instead on devolved themes....and lacking a useful framework from which to accurately evaluate oursevles in the context of this society, we freeze.

2007-04-24T23:38:00.001-04:00

Our Democrats need a dose of....Don't understand how you vote for an unjust war, then vote for a deadline on the war as a means of demonstrating disappoval for same. And to make things worse, you load the bill with billions in pork. This is the problem with Dems. Their moral compass sometimes points in all directions at the same time. What's not being said is that Dems mostly agree with Republicans on the moral case for this war. I am not an expert by any means, but the asymmetrical nature of today's conflict is clear. The Dems would face the same fundamental problem if they were in power: how to fight people who are "not like us"."Don't worry", we are told, "we knew when we voted for the deadline that the President would veto the bill...so the pork loading dosen't really matter."The lack of a clear moral stance from the Dems on this war is troubling. And it is time to imagine the very near future. How will they prosecute this war? It will likely be around when they take power?The President is screwing things up royally. What is our plan?

2007-04-24T23:35:00.000-04:00

Inner City Economic Empowerment: A Tale of Two Cities

Research Paper
Summary:This case study, based on 19 interviews conducted with African American entrepreneurs, business and civic leaders in North Carolina, details enabling factors in the development of inner city businesses, how they impact the breath and depth of networks and how they result in the development of jobs and minority/resident owned inner city businesses. It suggests additional areas of inquiry to be pursued using quantitative methods.