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Crain's Conversations — 452 episodes · page 2 of 5
A conversation with Susan Harvey
Kelley Root on WJR: Beyond COVID testing at RapidBio | Lee Plaza renovations | Slow progress for women on boards
Small Business Spotlight podcast: How Cooking with Que owner bakes social media into her marketing plan
A conversation with Peter Cummings
Michael Lee on WJR: Museums to seek millage | Hospital pipeline backs up | Train station progress
Kelley Root on WJR: Lassiter is Newsmaker of Year | Bosch rides e-bikes | Hospitals' staffing struggle
Michael Lee on WJR: Newsmakers 2021 | Record $1M+ condo sales | Power balance shifts between suppliers, automakers
Small Business Spotlight podcast: 'Sometimes you need help' and how to find it
Kelley Root on WJR: Big pot of money to lure businesses | What's next for Detroit City Council | 10 things to watch
Michael Lee on WJR: GM's $2.5 billion investment | Lawmakers sign NDAs | Ideas to fix government | New site for UM innovation center in Detroit
Kelley Root on WJR: The EV gold rush | When customers attack | Crypto charity
Michael Lee on WJR: Finding more unicorns | Investing in people at small businesses | MSU's big deal
Small Business Spotlight podcast: Rose's Molly Mitchell: 'I wanted long-term employees'
Kelley Root on WJR: Small businesses grapple with holiday supply issues | Vaccine mandate could cripple rural hospitals
Kelley Root on WJR: Journalist freed | Manufacturers up the ante | Cannabis banking on the rise | Home offices get posh updates
Michael Lee on WJR: Most Influential Women | Plans for Joe Louis Arena site | 'The Great Resignation' hits execs | Manufacturers' conundrum
Kelley Root on WJR: 40 Under 40 | What to know about Tuesday elections | MSU women get NIL contracts
Michael Lee on WJR: Does posting hospital prices matter? | New addiction treatment model draws investors | Pros, cons of tax incentives | Malls in trouble
Small Business Spotlight podcast: Nonprofit turns to tech to save, bolster events
Kelley Root on WJR: Developers work around endangered species | Tiny bubbles to power growth | Renters rule in 3 more communities
Michael Lee on WJR: Staffing shortages make patients wait | Biggest cannabis towns
Kelley Root on WJR: State pushes to be shovel ready | Grand Prix sees its future downtown | Residential pivot?
Michael Lee on WJR: Mackinac Policy Conference, Detroit Homecoming return
How Dan Gilbert’s philanthropy is being spread across Detroit
MHA’s Brian Peters and Chris Mitchell discuss hospital staffing crisis in fourth surge of COVID cases
Deloitte’s David Parent on the future of the workplace – and where people will work
Mackinac conference: New MEDC CEO Quentin Messer Jr. on Michigan’s economic development toolbox
Gov. Whitmer talks state budget, COVID-19 and auto insurance reform at Mackinac Policy Conference
John Rakolta talks UAE ambassadorship, Walbridge construction industry growth, growing education “crisis” in Michigan
Marathon refinery GM Dave Leaver on the refinery’s home-purchase program
Conrad Mallett: Duggan to come out in favor of Detroit reparations ballot proposal
Detroit Future City CEO: Private sector ready to make equity changes ‘we have not seen before’
Bollinger Motors CEO Robert Bollinger on taking a different road to electric trucks – and why the auto business is hard
Mackinac conference: Detroit CFO Jay Rising: Sports betting, casino taxes are “savior” of city budget this year
Mackinac conference: HAP CEO Michael Genord on the lessons of COVID
Duggan talks re-election campaign, towing, Detroit infrastructure issues at Mackinac Policy Conference
Mackinac conference: DTE Energy Vice Chairman Dave Meador talks workforce development, tree-trimming and burying power lines
Mackinac conference: Lt. Gov. Gilchrist talks transit, equity, state budget and pandemic lessons learned
Mackinac conference: Soon-to-retire Antoine Garibaldi on why Detroit Mercy is expanding to Novi, what’s next
Consumers Energy CEO Garrick Rochow: Time to rethink utility industry’s resistance to burying power lines
Sponsored: Jim Kirk with Joyce Foundation president on Michigan priorities
What's different at Mackinac Policy Conference 2021
Michael Lee on WJR: Businesses have questions about vaccine mandate | Yamasaki firm finding its footing | HopCat's plans after bankruptcy
Kelley Root on WJR: All about Ann Arbor | Green rush on weed deals | Office design evolves
Michael Lee on WJR: Worker burnout | Price cuts in home real estate market | Motor Bella debut | Bury power lines?
Small Business Spotlight podcast: How outsourcing can ease the workload
Michael Lee on WJR: Biz leaders weigh in on COVID mandates | Cool Places to Work | Impact of new Meijer | Mortgage companies adjust
Kelley Root on WJR: Cool Places to Work reveal | Detroit condo market rebound? | Rosalie Vicari on keeping a restaurant group cooking
Kelley Root on WJR: Landlords struggle | NA drinks find their moment | UM president on pivoting a $10 billion business
Michael Lee on WJR: Plastic in the Great Lakes | Millennial, Gen Z home buyers struggle | Vaccine mandates jump | Impact of soaring logistics costs
Kelley Root on WJR: What to do with Detroit’s vacant schools | Vaccine drive hits diminishing returns | Small Business Spotlight | The Pontch returns
Small Business Spotlight podcast: Staying ahead of the game in a pandemic
Michael Lee on WJR: Jumpstart for District Detroit? | Fast 50 | History of Beaumont, Spectrum | Pistons' new courtside bar
Kelley Root on WJR: New home for small business news | Home Point mortgage keeps low profile | Detroit Public Theatre expands
Michael Lee on WJR: The outdoor economy | RV boom hits some roadblocks | No-fault's knock-on effects
Kelley Root on WJR: Child care conundrum | Investors compete with homebuyers | How independent businesses hang on
Small Business Spotlight podcast: How to stay alive in a changing industry
Michael Lee on WJR: Weighing Beaumont-Spectrum deal | Surprise millions for nonprofits | The market for blood
Kelley Root on WJR: Giving Guide | Metro Detroit CEOs' pay | High-end rentals squeezed | Family doctors dig in on vaccines
Michael Lee on WJR: Requiring vaccine in health care | Health Care Heroes | Convention business returns | May Mobility drives forward
Kelley Root on WJR: Getting to know Health Care Heroes | Grand Prix makes return | AirBnb-type rentals under scrutiny
Will Detroit be ready as it approaches 'pension cliff'?
Kelley Root on WJR: Back to the office | Detroit faces pension payments cliff | Changes at Crain's
Small Business Spotlight podcast: The rewards and challenges of gig work
Michael Lee on WJR: Luxury home market booming | Prices soar in seller's market | Wall Street cool to local mortgage giants
Michael Lee on WJR: Short-staffed restaurants | Hospitals marketing themselves alongside vaccinations | 20 in their 20s
Kelley Root on WJR: ‘Bullwhip' effect hits supply chains | Residential real estate outlook
Small Business Spotlight podcast: Ackroyd's Scottish Bakery owner on succession planning
Kelley Root on WJR: Rocket CEO Farner's $52 million payday | Fallout from hot real estate market | Oakland Hills shoots for U.S. Open | ER docs manage 'chaos'
Michael Lee on WJR: StockX, OneStream score | Hospitals confront different wave | How the food economy has changed
Kelley Root on WJR: Office space post-COVID | Black-owned businesses and access to capital | Most influential women sought
Michael Lee on WJR: Forum: Increased teacher turnover and its impact | Vaccine incentives | Amazon Fresh coming to metro Detroit?
Q&A with MSU’s Katharine Strunk: Teacher retention starts with compensation, school leadership
Bosch's Charlie Ackerman on shifting from a workplace culture of 'presence' at the office to 'performance' working remotely
Kelley Root on WJR: Vaccine rollout revs up | New Black business group | Hot housing market
Michael Lee on WJR: How will communities spend $4.4B windfall? | Detroit's priciest condo | New app delivers Crain's news
Kelley Root on WJR: COVID-19 one year later | UWM's Rocket attack | Deals surge for small and middle-market companies
Michael Lee on WJR: Back to the office? | Texas power disaster: Lessons for Michigan | Carrying on legacy of Eric Means
Kelley Root on WJR: Biggest Deals 2020 | Small Business Spotlight: Young entrepreneurs
Crain's Forum: Access to care remains a big hurdle in Michigan's mental health system
Small Business Spotlight: Detroit Flower Co. owner learns to run her business on the fly
Michael Lee on WJR: Auto show move has nonprofits regrouping | Online betting to launch | Mortgage company No. 3
Kelley Root on WJR: $1M+ homes sales soar in Oakland County | Family auto dealerships consolidating | Newsmakers webcasts
Chad Livengood on WDET: If Michigan business leaders want political civility, they should show Mike Shirkey the door
Michael Lee on WJR: New private equity fund focuses on Michigan | Pivots that paid off | Art Van fund's spend-down goal
Michael Lee on WJR: A Gamestop moment | Indoor dining reopens | Suburban Collection in deal talks
Kelley Root on WJR: Newsmakers event | Detroit condo market | Few bankruptcy filings | SPAC-tacular deal
The intern is now the president: Jon Kramer of OHM Advisors talks career advancement, talent pipeline shortage and metro Detroit infrastructure needs
Kelley Root on WJR: Loves Furniture's heartbreak | Food banks build out
Mary Kramer on WJR: Newsmakers 2020 | Homebuilder David Compo, family killed in plane crash
Michael Lee on WJR: Lists and more in "The Book" | A lifeline for businesses | Building for sale: Ghosts optional
Chad Livengood on WDET: Home health industry faces labor shortage amid low pay, pandemic fears
Mike Lee on WJR: Huntington to acquire TCF Bank | Businesses may struggle to reach COVID herd immunity | Pulte estate, Cornerstone battle over millions
Mary Kramer on WJR: Vaccine drives home-run investment | Red-hot real estate market | Indoor dining ban
Michael Lee on WJR: First year of recreational marijuana | Commercial demolitions grind to a halt | Can Lineage Logistics aid vaccine distribution?
Mary Kramer on WJR: COVID's small biz impact | Whitmer makes most of exec powers | Women biz leaders urge unity | Patti Poppe's next challenge
Michael Lee on WJR: More COVID-19 shutdowns | Plans for Northland site | Taubman, Simon merger back on
Mary Kramer on WJR: Political ad spending soars | Calvin Johnson's business push
Michael Lee on WJR: Business leaders' outlook on election, resilient scooter companies
Mary Kramer on WJR: Fewer free lunches with lobbyists | 50 Names to Know in Lobbying | Clinc looks to scale up | Nationalizing Michigan's issues