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January 12, 2008

Guest Editorial: Coordinated development in East Columbia lacking

Community, Voices

It is obvious in the selection of East Columbia EIS (Environmental Impact Study) of major street alternatives that no consideration was given to the development of viable neighborhoods. Slicing an improved Highway WW across the landscape leaves fragments of urban development cut off from logical future elementary school attendance areas and logical locations for future […]

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Guest Editorial: Business doesn’t stop because it’s an election year

Community, Voices

Where would sick people go if Missouri hospitals shut down for four months? What would happen if Missouri trucking companies stopped hauling goods for 120 days? How would our economy be affected if every manufacturing plant in the state decided to cut production in half for months on end? These questions might seem ridiculous; few

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From the Roundtable: Consider creative sentencing for youth causing crime increase

Community, Voices

What marvelous timing! After a few weeks of work came this bulletin: The Columbia-area crime task force, involving several police agencies, has been disbanded. This effort from the onset was only temporary—something some of us may have forgotten. But the news and the apparent abruptness of the group’s disbanding could have been handled better from

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Smart Thinking: The mysteries of hiring salespeople unlocked: Part I

Features

You were the top salesperson for years. Then one day you accepted management’s offer to become a sales manager—and that’s when the nightmare began. That was the point at which you discovered the reality: The sales manager’s position is one of the most difficult positions in the company—caught between playing nursemaid to your people and

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Venture capitalists predict growth in ‘green,’ media, biotech industries

Columbia Business Times Archive, What's New

The National Venture Capital Association has released its 2008 predictions for the industry. The findings are encouraging.      2008 should be an active year for VCs. In particular, 80 percent of NVCA members foresee growth in the cleantech sector, those innovative products and services that enhance performance, productivity and efficiency while protecting the environment and

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People You Should Know: Steve Wyatt

Features

Statewide Director for Business Development College of Engineering, University of Missouri Extension AGE: 42 JOB DESCRIPTION: With economic development as the fourth mission of the university, my job is to provide leadership to the various business-development programs across the state. The breadth of these programs includes everything from helping to start companies, to commercializing technology,

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MU banking chair urges caution amid economic uncertainty

Columbia Business Times Archive, What's New

The new year had barely dawned when the economy sent a strong message that uncertainty underlies the months ahead, especially for the financial-services sector that provides much of the revenue needed for growth in Columbia and elsewhere. Already strained by a housing slump and a credit crunch, employment figures for December showed an actual national

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