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| 1510: She was "Open to
Investors" to manufacture breathmints to save ethno-medicinal plants in
the Amazon. |
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| 1509: The
Tile Connection is the story of every local retail shop. Jimmy Fand
started this one with his wife, Maria. |
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| 1507: Meet the three Calise brothers,
"Good Old Boys" who promised their mother
to be one for all and all for one! |
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| 1412: They changed the face of a
virtually abandoned downtown; this is Business on tap in Libertyville,
Illinois. |
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| Stories about the soul of every economy |
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| Without
A Break Since 1994 |
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There are thirteen episodes per season and, of
course, four seasons per year.
This is the 1500 Season: It began
May 2007 and goes through December 2006. Each season is numbered for groups
like the TV Guide. This is, however, our 49th season of productions --
non-stop -- about small business that have been airing on your PBS-member
stations.
Here's access to
other seasons:
1400
Season: July through September 2006
1300
Season: April 2006 through June 2006
1200
Season: January 2006 through March 2006
1100
Season: October through December 2005
Other ways to find an episode of the show:
You can search by
business name or
owner's
name, by business sector, by
subject
matter or topic, or by
Diversity
(or
this one),
Family,
nation,
State, or
Women!
See several years of episodes
by clicking on view prior episode just below the header
and the words, "Welcome to Small Business School."
Specials: From the best points of many episodes we
explore key small business issues. |
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| Television to make a
difference |
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| Key pages: Each episode has its own home
page, an overview with links to that business, the complete transcript, a case
study guide prepared for business schools, and streaming video. Today, these
case study guides are part of the curriculum of almost every business school in
the USA and the best around the world. |
| Perspective: We live in the present; we
reflect on the past; we project the future; and we struggle to know what is
important and good within life, ie.
creating harmony. |
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| Everyone helps to select a business to be on the
show |
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| A discussion about a working business model for
the future, by Bruce Camber, Executive Producer |
First, we turn to the PBS-station manager and get
permission to do an episode of the show in their neighborhood. Next we contact
every local Chamber of Commerce within reach of the station's signal. Usually
there are 40 to 70 local chambers. We invite each to nominate four or five
businesses that have the qualities outlined within our selection
process. Usually there are over 200 businesses nominated. We invite
their local small business advocates (Economic Development, Better Business
Bureau, the mayors, the Governor, Workforce Initiative, people among the
SBA-SBDC-SCORE, the business press, business professors, CPAs, and others) to
vote. These are the people who know the hearts and minds of these business
owners. They vote and we emerge with a list of the top ten. We then re-engage
the station manager, the CPAs of each company, and each of their national trade
associations make the final selection. Nobody can pay or has ever paid to be
on this show.
We are
looking for the finest roles models for each of us, our industries, and our
children.
Today, everybody
is a producer: We believe that part of television that lifts up
exploitation as an art form (glamorizing violence and corruptive behaviors)
can and should be replaced with the vibrant heart of creativity,
value-laden work, and
hope for
the future. We have invited our loyal stations and our legacy sponsors of
the show to take over SmallBusinessSchool for the future. We also invite
all the
Chambers and
National Trade Associations to join them. By
working together the productions can be increased from our 26 per year to 100,
then to 1000, 2000 and eventually as many as 4000 per year where 3948 are
local episodes. Fifty-two of those episodes are selected for the
national and global feeds of the show
There are 210 Designated Market Areas in the USA.
I believe there should be at least local 10 episodes per year within each DMA.
In several of the most heavily populated DMAs there should be as many as 26 new
episodes per year.
Also, the
show is broadcast in over 100 other countries via the Voice of America. We wll
work with every station and every country to produce local episodes and to be
part of the new management of SmallBusinessSchool.
One clear hope to cure the madness within the
world is to lift up the best role models that we can find, knowing, of course,
that we all have clay feet. None of us are perfect. Yet, inspiration to create
is better than incitement to exploit. -BEC |
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