Take a look at the quarterly reports of big U.S. companies and you may see overseas growth cushioning a domestic financial blow. Jeremy Hobson explores this and other disadvantages small businesses have in the face of recovery.
Ronald McNeil: And those companies with the international stretch are helped more and quicker as economies recover in the global marketplace.
That's Ronald McNeil, dean of the business school at the University of Illinois-Springfield. He says small businesses can benefit too, if they play their cards right. Perhaps by supplying goods and services to larger companies that already export their business overseas.
McNeil's comments were featured on American Public Media's Marketplace on March 30, 2010.
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