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GR Business Journal highlights trust survey
October 3, 2016
The KBEI's Trust Survey was recently featured in the Grand Rapids Business Journal.
Charts: The extraordinary decoupling between economic growth and carbon pollution is happening
September 28, 2016
Producing more stuff takes more energy. Using more energy means more pollution. That statement would once have seemed like common sense.
Who are West Michigan's Most Trusted Companies?
August 14, 2016
So who are Michigan's most trustworthy companies? We conducted a survey to find out.
An Introduction to Social Capital
April 19, 2016
A couple of years ago Michael DeWilde got curious about Grand Rapids in ways only an academic can, and that was to take a look at it through its "social capital". How does the city fare?
Flint's decline, Grand Rapids' success predicted in 70-year-old study
April 3, 2016
70 years ago, two sociologists concluded the fortunes of two of Michigan's largest cities, Flint and Grand Rapids, were headed in opposite directions. (From the Grand Rapids Press.)
The Accused
October 12, 2015
When a Chinatown bank was investigated for fraud, a community's financial way of life was put on trial.
Kings of the Desert
April 13, 2015
An American banker, a Saudi billionaire, and a financial collapse that stunned the Middle East. (From The New Yorker)
Empire of Edge
October 14, 2014
How a doctor, a trader, and the billionaire Steven A. Cohen got entangled in a vast financial scandal. (From The New Yorker)
A thoughtful article on the Hobby Lobby Case
July 22, 2014
Writing the majority opinion, US Supreme Court Associate Justice Samuel Alito roundly rejected the idea that corporations are legally required to maximize profits for shareholders.