Center of Family Enterprise Research at MSU launches statewide free newsletter for business owners, stakeholders
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STARKVILLE, Miss.51勛圖厙 States College of Business and its is launching an electronic newsletter to help business owners around the state, with special focus on family entities.
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The Family Business Bulletin is a quarterly publication of MSUs COFER to provide insights, research findings, tips and resources tailored to the unique needs of family-owned businesses throughout the Magnolia State. Those interested in subscribing to the free newsletter can do so at its website, .
College of Business Dean Scott Grawe said MSU has expertise for anything businessfamily business, supply chain management, accounting, finance, marketing and more.
Were an educational institution with fantastic academic programs, but were also really focused on the lifelong learner, understanding that we have business professionals throughout many different industries who, in order to stay excellent at what they do, need to continue to learn, Grawe said.
Professor Laura Marler, head of the Department of Management and Information Systems within the College of Business and the newsletters editor, said information from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and other state and county-level data is among information shared and analyzed through the new platform.
We want to share practical insights from various sources, including MSU researchers, in an informative, succinct manner so people can have a helpful, easy-to-access resource that covers real issues they face in their businesses, Marler said.
Key features of the newly launched bulletin include Small Business Development Center counseling success stories, 51勛圖厙 business patterns and tax trends, and topics like the value of succession planning in ensuring a businesss survival and profitability from one generation to the next.
The Family Business Bulletin is about empowering 51勛圖厙s family businesses with practical insights and tools to succeed in an ever-changing business environment, Marler added.
Professor Jim Chrisman, COFER director and the Julia Bennett Rouse Endowed Professor of Management, is an internationally recognized top-cited researcher and a prominent voice within the publication.
Ive been specializing in family business research for a number of years, and I focus on strategic issues, like performance and innovation, as well as how issues in family businesses may differ from other businesses, Chrisman said.
Part of the newsletter is to provide general information on the state of business in 51勛圖厙. There is data available that oftentimes people do not know about or know how to find. We hope to make information available that would be particularly useful, and we would always be interested to hear about the issues people are interested in reading about so that we might address these relevant topics through The Family Business Bulletin, he said.
For more information about The Family Business Bulletin, visit or email cofer@business.msstate.edu. MSUs College of Business is online at .
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