Spirit of Enterprise Center
Goodbye To All That: AZ Business Magazine Asks Industry Leaders About What's In Store For 2010
Submitted by Janet_Perez on Mon, 01/11/2010 - 1:50pm
A decade that started with so much promise has ended with a thud, a final and brutal farewell to a generally dismal 10 years. The Aughts were punctuated with terror, wars, election controversies and a near catastrophic economic meltdown. Oh, there were some good financial times somewhere around the middle, but as it turned out we were dancing on quicksand. Farewell to the fraught Aughts. So what’s in store for 2010? After this past year, it’s a question whose answer elicits hope and fear. Could it possibly get worse? Will it finally get better? The economists tell us we have started digging ourselves out of the quicksand, but it will be a slow struggle as we try to move to firmer ground. |
Small Business Champs
Submitted by Janet_Perez on Sun, 09/27/2009 - 5:44pm
Obviously, many small businesses have closed their doors during this economic downturn, but there were also many small businesses that survived and even managed to thrive in the Great Recession. Recently, five small businesses from across the state were honored with Spirit of Enterprise awards. The awards are given out each year by the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University through its Spirit of Enterprise Center to recognize firms “that demonstrate ethics, energy and excellence in entrepreneurship.” |
The recession battered all manner of companies, from big to small. But small businesses had one major advantage over their larger peers: flexibility to quickly cope with a rapidly changing economic environment.
