Job Growth and Decline by Industry

For Tennessee and 10 MSAs:

http://tinyurl.com/4mbwfaz
http://tinyurl.com/48ocbwl

New heat tables

• for Tennessee
• for 10 MSAs

Better Living through Economics

John Siegfried from Vanderbilt University will present “Better Living through Economics” in an Economics and Finance seminar this Friday, Jan. 28, 2011, in the Business and Aerospace Building, room S128, from 12:45 - 2:15 p.m. The presentation is related to his book with the same title and it is meant to appeal to a general audience. [more information, pdf]

Alumna Wright Recognized

MTSU alumna and Nashville businesswoman Pamela J. Wright has been recognized by the Tennessee Board of Regents with its Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Philanthropy. The award, presented by TBR Chancellor John Morgan, recognizes Wright, who made a $1.25 million commitment in 2007 to establish an endowed chair in entrepreneurship, for her outstanding support of MTSU. [more at mtsunews.com]

[Wright Travel Chair of Entrepreneurship]

MTSU-TSBDC Sponsors TNCPE Performance Excellence Conference

Middle Tennessee State University’s Tennessee Small Business Development Center (TSBDC) in partnership with the Tennessee Center for Performance Excellence (TNCPE) is sponsoring the 2011 Excellence in Tennessee Conference to be held in Franklin on February 22-23. TNCPE offers in-depth organizational assessments and feedback, coupled with high-level training in improvement methods based on the Baldrige Criteria for Performance Excellence.

“TNCPE delivers training across the state throughout the year, but its biggest educational event is the annual Excellence in Tennessee Conference. I encourage Jones College of Business faculty members to attend this conference,” said Patrick Geho, Associate Professor BCEN and State Director of the TSBDC.

At the conference, national and regional experts and leaders from world-class organizations will provide training on best practices and improvement tools.

To learn more about TNCPE, or the Excellence in Tennessee Conference, please visit www.tncpe.org or call (800) 453-6474.

Conference details are available at www.TNCPE.org/Innovate2011.

A sampling of sessions at the 2011 Excellence in Tennessee Conference:

• Is Baldrige Your Answer to Healthcare Reform?
• Work Systems That Work: Your guide to successful process management
• Six Thinking Hats: An innovation tool for group discussion and parallel thinking
• Vision, Engagement and Strategy: The executive leader's role in continuous improvement
•  Achieving 8 Dimensions of Excellence: A pragmatic approach that will strengthen your ability to achieve strategic outcomes 

Organizing for Efficiency

MTSU professor Jackie Gilbert, Management and Marketing, has launched a blog: "Organizing for Efficiency."

[article from the Record]

Tracking Tennessee's Economic Recovery

MTSU's Business and Economic Research Center partners with Tennessee Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations to provide up-to-date information tracking Tennessee's economic recovery including key indicators for the state and 10 MSAs as well as current business headlines. [Tracking Tennessee's Economic Recovery site]

Rapidly Changing Job Market Brings Hopes, Fears

From the Tennessean: Murat Arik, associate director of the Business and Economic Research Center at Middle Tennessee State University, said some manufacturing jobs soon will be created in Tennessee as Volkswagen starts up in Chattanooga and Hemlock Semiconductor Group gets under way in Clarksville. [more]