Thriving on the Vine: The Growth of Black Entrepreneurs in the American Wine Industry

Black winemakers and wine entrepreneurs have been largely omitted from the United States wine industry and its history. Despite Black vintners’ presence as early as the country’s antebellum period, the concept of Black wine entrepreneurs has been understudied. Ironically, the death of George Floyd in 2020 and the resulting “Buy Black” movement catalyzed widespread attention on African American-owned businesses, including those in wine production and related categories. As consumer interest and media coverage increased for Black-owned wine businesses, entrants increasingly pursued the industry through diverse business models and offerings. In the current paper, a brief history of Black commercial vintners is introduced, followed by an overview of current producers, as well as pivotal milestones, and concluding with strategies for future entrepreneurial success

Has Racial Inclusion in the Wine Industry Improved Since 2020? Results From Two Surveys of Black Wine Entrepreneurs

Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) entrepreneurs have been underrepresented in America’s formal wine industry for centuries. It is commonly reported that Black-owned wineries represent less than one percent of the 11,000 U.S. wineries, while only two percent of wine professionals identify as Black. The events of 2020, including the video-recorded murder of George Floyd by a police officer, incited global protests for social justice, equity and inclusion. The wine industry, along with its peers in retail, finance, and others, committed to improved opportunities for Black business owners as well as employees. In the current article, the 2020 and 2023 results of the Terroir Noir survey of Black wine entrepreneurs are presented to assess the perspectives of this segment regarding inclusion and other topics

Self-Enhancement and Self-Transcendence Organizational Values' Effects on Customer Satisfaction and Corporate Reputation

While organizational values and their implications for organizational effectiveness and employee outcomes have been studied at length within the management literature, the question of how organizational values influence marketing outcomes remains under-researched. Further, prior research is silent as to which organizational values should be important to the marketing discipline. The current research applies stakeholder theory to address these issues, and proposes that an expanded organizational values framework is needed to account for marketing-relevant stakeholders (e.g., customers and the general public) and not solely those "inside" the firm (e.g., employees and shareholders). Therefore, using Schwartz's values model, the Stakeholder-Organizational Values (S-OV) framework is conceptualized and tested. The S-OV framework considers stakeholder locus (internal, such as employees and shareholders versus external, such as customers and the general public) and four types of organizational values emphases (Self-Enhancement, Self-Transcendence, Openness to Change and Conservation). Stakeholder theory also suggests that the organizational values a firm emphasizes will affect stakeholders' evaluations of the firm. These effects are empirically explored in relation to customer satisfaction and corporate reputation, two significant marketing-relevant evaluations with related but distinct stakeholder factions. In combination, the novel framework and the empirical analysis contribute to marketing strategy research by positioning organizational values as a competitive marketing resource applicable to multiple stakeholders.Ph.D., Business Administration -- Drexel University, 201

Six-Month Mortality among HIV-Infected Adults Presenting for Antiretroviral Therapy with Unexplained Weight Loss, Chronic Fever or Chronic Diarrhea in Malawi.

In sub-Saharan Africa, early mortality is high following initiation of antiretroviral therapy (ART). We investigated 6-month outcomes and factors associated with mortality in HIV-infected adults being assessed for ART initiation and presenting with weight loss, chronic fever or diarrhea, and with negative TB sputum microscopy

2009- 2010 UNLV McNair Journal

Journal articles based on research conducted by undergraduate students in the McNair Scholars Program Table of Contents Biography of Dr. Ronald E. McNair Statements: Dr. Neal J. Smatresk, UNLV President Dr. Juanita P. Fain, Vice President of Student Affairs Dr. William W. Sullivan, Associate Vice President for Retention and Outreach Mr. Keith Rogers, Deputy Executive Director of the Center for Academic Enrichment and Outreach McNair Scholars Institute Staf

Wealth Transmission and Inequality among Hunter‐Gatherers

We report quantitative estimates of intergenerational transmission and population-wide inequality for wealth measures in a set of hunter-gatherer populations. Wealth is defined broadly as factors that contribute to individual or household well-being, ranging from embodied forms such as weight and hunting success to material forms such household goods, as well as relational wealth in exchange partners. Intergenerational wealth transmission is low to moderate in these populations, but is still expected to have measurable influence on an individual’s life chances. Wealth inequality (measured with Gini coefficients) is moderate for most wealth types, matching what qualitative ethnographic research has generally indicated (if not the stereotype of hunter-gatherers as extreme egalitarians). We discuss some plausible mechanisms for these patterns, and suggest ways in which future research could resolve questions about the role of wealth in hunter-gatherer social and economic life

Intergenerational Wealth Transmission and the Dynamics of Inequality in Small-Scale Societies

Small-scale human societies range from foraging bands with a strong egalitarian ethos to more economically stratified agrarian and pastoral societies. We explain this variation in inequality using a dynamic model in which a population’s long-run steady-state level of inequality depends on the extent to which its most important forms of wealth are transmitted within families across generations. We estimate the degree of intergenerational transmission of three different types of wealth (material, embodied, and relational), as well as the extent of wealth inequality in 21 historical and contemporary populations. We show that intergenerational transmission of wealth and wealth inequality are substantial among pastoral and small-scale agricultural societies (on a par with or even exceeding the most unequal modern industrial economies) but are limited among horticultural and foraging peoples (equivalent to the most egalitarian of modern industrial populations). Differences in the technology by which a people derive their livelihood and in the institutions and norms making up the economic system jointly contribute to this pattern

MCM3AP in recessive Charcot-Marie-Tooth neuropathy and mild intellectual disability

Defects in mRNA export from the nucleus have been linked to various neurodegenerative disorders. We report mutations in the gene MCM3AP, encoding the germinal center associated nuclear protein (GANP), in nine affected individuals from five unrelated families. The variants were associated with severe childhood onset primarily axonal (four families) or demyelinating (one family) Charcot-Marie-Tooth neuropathy. Mild to moderate intellectual disability was present in seven of nine affected individuals. The affected individuals were either compound heterozygous or homozygous for different MCM3AP variants, which were predicted to cause depletion of GANP or affect conserved amino acids with likely importance for its function. Accordingly, fibroblasts of affected individuals from one family demonstrated severe depletion of GANP. GANP has been described to function as an mRNA export factor, and to suppress TDP-43-mediated motor neuron degeneration in flies. Thus our results suggest defective mRNA export from nucleus as a potential pathogenic mechanism of axonal degeneration in these patients. The identification of MCM3AP variants in affected individuals from multiple centres establishes it as a disease gene for childhood-onset recessively inherited Charcot-Marie-Tooth neuropathy with intellectual disability.Peer reviewe