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The Road to Recovery in Detroit

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These have been dark days for Detroit. The finances of a city once the center of the automotive universe are in the hands of an unelected manager appointed by Michigan’s governor. The manager will determine what he can salvage from a legacy of decline that has left Motown on the cusp of bankruptcy.

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Turbocharging Motown’s Recovery

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We took some ribbing last summer when we put up a post in this space entitled “ The Road to Recovery in Detroit ,” predicting that the Motor City would quickly rebound from its financial woes and become a magnet for new industries. cities for job-skills training. Welcome back from the Dark Side, banksters.

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SNAPSHOTS: 60 Seconds…with Stephen Moret, Secretary, Louisiana Economic Development

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Additionally, we’ve dramatically enhanced LED’s business development approach, utilizing a highly customized project management process that delivers comprehensive, creative, fast and professional solutions for leading companies working to establish major new business operations. These have been dark days for Detroit.

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Cover Story: 2014 Business Facilities – Metro And Global Rankings

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IBM Services Center: Baton Rouge will deliver technology services including application development, application management and system integration. Your eyes weren’t deceiving you when you saw Detroit, MI sitting at No. The new tech center will provide IBM’s clients in the U.S. Airbus is the largest customer of the U.S.

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Phantom Payouts

Business Facilities

The Times apparently was shocked, shocked to learn that, when GM accepted these incentives prior to 2007, the company failed to warn its location partners that a global financial meltdown soon would bring it to the brink of bankruptcy and liquidation. And how did the financially strapped Times Co, manage to finance its dazzling new tower?

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Home Builder Success and the Fragility of Good Things

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Shortly after, I read another piece on bankruptcies in home building, and soon I was thinking of the more than 250 builders I’ve worked with over more than three decades and wondering: Does this “ Anna Karenina Principle ” about families also apply to home building? Leadership vs. Management—Not One and the Same. Business Management.