UNM Economic Development Summit
Friday, September 21, 20128:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.Student Union Building (SUB), Ballroom Cfree parking at the UNM Cornell parking structure:: Register now! Join UNM President Robert Frank and guests, including Governor Susana Martinez, and Victor Hwang, author of...
Reinventing Economic Development: Tourism to the Rescue
Reinventing Economic Development Tourism to the rescue Premium content from New Mexico Business Weekly by Mark Lautman, Guest Columnist, Guest Columnist Date: Friday, May 25, 2012, 4:00am MDT A couple of things struck me at last week’s annual state tourism conference...
Reinventing Economic Development: Obfuscating on Thin Ice
Reinventing Economic Development ‘Obfuscating on thin ice’ Premium content from New Mexico Business Weekly by Mark Lautman, Guest Columnist Date: Friday, April 27, 2012, 4:00am MDT While coming up with an actionable plan for creating jobs is harder than it has ever...
Reinventing economic development: Why not wing it?
Reinventing economic development: Why not wing it? New Mexico Business Weekly by Mark Lautman, Guest Columnist Date: Friday, March 23, 2012, 4:00am MDT Imagine having a life plan to get married, have three kids, put them all through college, pay off a new house and go...
Reinventing economic development: Embrace the wickedness
Reinventing economic development: Embrace the wickedness by Mark Lautman New Mexico Business Weekly Date: Friday, February 24, 2012, 4:00am MST When we came out of recessions in the olden days, recoveries were led by government and corporate investment,...
Reinventing Economic Development: How not to lose sleep over income inequality
Reinventing Economic Development: How not to lose sleep over income inequality New Mexico Business Weekly by Mark Lautman, Guest Columnist Date: Friday, January 27, 2012, 4:00am MST Recessions are a natural part of the economic cycle. They are how the market...
Blog: Shane D’Onofrio
Huffington Post just profiled local Rio Rancho Economic Development hero, Shane D’Onofrio, for building and running a veteran services center, literally, in his back yard. He rounds up struggling veterans from the community and provides shelter, work space and support...
Intel Outside Speaker – January 11, 2011
Reinventing Economic Development: Industrial Revolution 3.0
Reinventing Economic Development: Industrial Revolution 3.0 New Mexico Business Weekly by Mark Lautman, Guest Columnist Date: Friday, December 30, 2011, 4:00am MST Which country has the largest share of global manufacturing? Your first thought would probably be...
Reinventing Economic Development: Citizen Shane and other things we should be thankful for
Citizen Shane and other things we should be thankful for By Mark Lautman Published 11/25/11 I think Thanksgiving is our best holiday. Once a year, even if it's just for 25 seconds right before dinner, Americans acknowledge how lucky we are - even when we...
Reinventing economic development: Economic entropy
Reinventing economic development: Economic entropy By Mark Lautman Published 10/28/11 In case you missed it, physicists now believe as much as 70 percent of the mass of the universe is made of “dark matter” that’s...
Reinventing Economic Development: Saved by the poor
Reinventing Economic Development: Saved by the Poor By Mark Lautman Published 9/23/11 Last week, we learned from U.S. Census data that one of every six American households is living in poverty. That’s a family of four...
Reinventing economic development: Game over
Reinventing economic development: Game over By Mark Lautman Published 8/26/11 New Mexico’s economic security blanket, the federal government, which has buffered us from the ravages of business cycles and recessions, is...
Reinventing Economic Development: Responding to an economic death threat
Responding to an economic death threat By Mark Lautman Published 7/22/11 Being introduced as the Dr. Kevorkian of economic development at a speaking gig in Nashville last week reminded me that I needed to look for some...
Reinventing economic development: Waiting for the bottom
Reinventing economic development: Waiting for the bottom By Mark Lautman Published 6/24/11 New Mexico is losing the economic development game. If you need proof, here are some numbers: There were 4,623 economic...
Reinventing economic development: Plan or fail
Reinventing economic development: Plan or fail By Mark Lautman Published 5/27/11 You’ve probably never seen your community’s strategic economic development plan. That’s because it’s probably top secret. If the economic...
Reinventing Economic Development: How it really works
How it really works By Mark Lautman Published 4/29/11 I’ve given you a lot of economic development theory, which I hope has been useful. Now I want to tell you how economic development works and why it’s important to...
Reinventing economic development: Buyer beware
Buyer beware By Mark Lautman Published 3/25/11 The economic development profession might have hit bottom this week. One of the country’s premier economic development consulting firms, Angelou Economics , got busted...