
what if we saw business as a force for good?

The Coffee House Diaries 11.12.2003: Two speeches, twenty years apart
two speeches, twenty years apart, both at the Downtown Lima, Inc. annual meeting

The Coffee House Diaries 01.22.2002
Kevin (my husband) and Jim (my brother) serving coffee and sandwiches at a tasting event before we were ready to open. 4/16/2003

The Scourge of Africa’s Brain Drain
The phenomenon of brain drain is often discussed from the developed country’s point of view. However, I believe looking at it from the African perspective and leaving our Eurocentric lens could lead us to think in a very different way. While we often discuss why people leave their countries, we tend to forget what they are leaving behind.

Should all entrepreneurs be social entrepreneurs?
If a business stops serving society, is it still a business?

Pull yourself up by your bootstraps or love your neighbor because I don’t know if we can do both
In America, try hard enough and you shall succeed. However, this story line becomes dangerous when it tangles with a greater story - the one in which you are asked to love your neighbor as yourself.

Excuses for Economic Misbehavior
A friend of mine was asking the other day why we can’t have a working economy that cares for people. Good question – why can’t we?

American Burnout
Is there anything more to American than brands and celebrities?

Can a Coworking Center
survive in a small city in the Midwest?
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