Episode Released Dates... September 8: Nicole Miller and Bud Konheim are partners in "Fashion, Quality and Art." September 1: Meet one of today's pioneers Ebby Halliday. She's a quiet hero for many. (Horatio Alger Award) August 25: Visit a family business with an old friend of the family, Fess Parker as he tells us yet another story. August 18: She lives miracles and says we are all Teachable and Loveable. She is probably a walking saint. August 11: Go global; travel with us. Run Your Office From Your Pocket . This episode teaches us how. August 4: Do not minimize the power to Use your intuition. Anne did, and with Mike, grew a $60M business. July 28: Start a business?!? Be bold. Invent an industry! That's what David Milly did. July 21: She's an inspiration for us all. Hispanic Business is Big Business and it'll get bigger yet! July 14: It is happening... Manufacturing is coming back... to the USA that is! July 7:: A television classic - understand the roots of democratic capitalism and Economic Independence. 1613: Albert Black uses tough love; he knows Healthy People Make Healthy Companies. 1612: At Ziba Design Sohrab Vossoughi asks everyone to be well, do well, then do it just a little better! 1611: We're In Charge. Adults create jobs; and work is creating value and taking charge of every aspect of life. 1610: Thriving Employee-Employer Partnerships begins with a basic respect for people. 1609: Let's Be Healthy; we can now know virtually anything about our health in minutes through a self-test.		Stories about the soul of every economy Key Episodes for all of us Selection : "Loved within their community and respected in their industry" is the bottom line of the selection process. Nobody has paid or can pay to be on this television show. More... On the Air : Join us first by watching the show every week on your PBS-member station. Airing : Listings for a current episode. Without A Break Since 1994 Summer Season 2007: This is the current season of the show. There are thirteen episodes per season and, of course, there are four seasons per year. This season runs until the end of September. Links to four more seasons of episodes: 1600 Season: April to July 1, 2007 Signature Season : January to April 1, 2007 1500 Season: October to December 31, 2006 1400 Season: July through September 2006 1300 Season: April 2006 through June 2006 Other ways to find an episode of the show: You can search by business, owner, business sector, topic, Diversity I & II, Family, nation, State, or Women! View prior episode: On most of these legacy pages, usually just below the header on the right, click on "View prior episode. You can click over 150 times and go back several years. Specials: These episodes are a compilation from the best points of many episodes; we explore key small business issues. Television to make a difference Key pages: Each episode has its own home page, overview, transcript, case study guide, and streaming video. Today, these case study guides are part of the curriculum of most every business school in the USA. Music & Mission: We live in the present, reflect on the past, project the future, and struggle to do what is important and good: This TV Show: 1. On Privacy & Copyright 2. The Mission Statement and Vision 3. Videos: Opening & Closing of the Show 4. About Our Global Tour - Summer 2007: We are literally scouting the world in search of "The Best Businesses of the World." Also, we're talking about another global TV series, "The Billionaires Millionaires."
Everyone helps to select a business to be on the show A discussion about this working business model, 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 to 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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