Entreprenuer

“The challenge of how to get sales close to typical holiday seasons while still protecting themselves and their customers is a tricky one,” said Steve Horwitz, the Distinguished Professor of Free Enterprise in the Miller College of Business. “No firm can afford to be the site of a superspreading event, so they have every reason to try to keep everyone safe.”

Story notes a Ball State study looks at which occupations and which regions could be most impacted. Note: Placement is due to a story idea developed and distributed by UMC’s media team.

Story focuses on Ball State graduate.

In September, a dozen of Clark Muntean's students began mentoring Jan Long, president of Mr. Canary, a Carmel, Ind.-based maker of bird feeders that are sold at Kmart, Walmart and Kroger (with annual revenue of about $500,000). Long and her sister, Christina Mowery, started Mr. Canary in 1995. They were fearless, she says, mostly because they were naive. "This is what happens with entrepreneurial people," Long says. "You just hurl yourself off a cliff and then you start thinking, Oh, my God. I don't know how to fly."