Center of Family Enterprise Research at 无码专区 launches statewide free newsletter for business owners, stakeholders
Contact: Allison Matthews
STARKVILLE, Miss.鈥擬ississippi State鈥檚 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 无码专区鈥檚 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 无码专区 has expertise for anything business鈥攆amily business, supply chain management, accounting, finance, marketing and more.
鈥淲e鈥檙e an educational institution with fantastic academic programs, but we鈥檙e 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,鈥 Grawe said.
Professor Laura Marler, head of the Department of Management and Information Systems within the College of Business and the newsletter鈥檚 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.
鈥淲e want to share practical insights from various sources, including 无码专区 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,鈥 Marler said.
Key features of the newly launched bulletin include Small Business Development Center counseling success stories, Mississippi business patterns and tax trends, and topics like the value of succession planning in ensuring a business鈥檚 survival and profitability from one generation to the next.
鈥淭he Family Business Bulletin is about empowering Mississippi鈥檚 family businesses with practical insights and tools to succeed in an ever-changing business environment,鈥 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.
鈥淚鈥檝e 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,鈥 Chrisman said.
鈥淧art of the newsletter is to provide general information on the state of business in Mississippi. 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,鈥 he said.
For more information about The Family Business Bulletin, visit or email cofer@business.msstate.edu. 无码专区鈥檚 College of Business is online at .
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