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5/4/2018 |
School for Startups Radio welcomes Tom Stewart

Executive Director Thomas A. Stewart talks middle market with School for Startups Radio.

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5/3/2018 | Barron's
Small Businesses Most Confident in Years; Larger Ones Have Even More Swagger

What are the biggest challenges facing American businesses? For the fifth year in a row, health-care costs remain the top economic concern of small-business owners, while middle-market companies are more anxious about the tightening labor pool and challenge to find qualified workers in an almost full-employment economy. Thomas Stewart weighs in.

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1/24/2018 | Press Release
Improved Year-Over-Year Company Performance Reaches Historical High for Middle Market in Q4 2017

COLUMBUS, Ohio (January 24, 2018) – The overall performance of middle market companies has steadily improved for years. As a result, nearly three-quarters (71 percent) of middle market firms surveyed for the Q4 2017 Middle Market Indicator (MMI) released today by the National Center for the Middle Market (NCMM) reported improved year-over-year company performance. Even more impressive, this is the highest percentage in the MMI’s history and nearly 10 percent higher than the average.

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12/1/2017 | Fisher College of Business at The Ohio State University
Shenkar Recognized Internationally for Scholarly Contributions

NCMM Academic Advisor Oded Shenkar, the Ford Motor Company Chair in Global Business Management and professor of management and human resources at Fisher, was recently named the 2018 recipient of the Distinguished Scholarly Contribution Award by the International Association for Chinese Management Research.

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11/9/2017 | Press Release
The Future of the Customer Experience

New Research from the National Center for the Middle Market Dials Up the Importance of Digitizing the Customer Experience.

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10/26/2017 | Middle Market Growth
Imbalance in Retail Employment and Earnings Growth Due for Correction

Employment in the middle-market retail sector grew at a rate nearly three times that of revenue in the third quarter of 2017—an “unsustainable” ratio, according to Thomas Stewart, executive director of the National Center for the Middle Market.

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