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Increased solar energy deployment offers impressive benefits for New Yorkers. Since 2008, U.S. installations have grown 35-fold to an estimated 62.5 gigawatts (GW) today, enough energy to power 12 million American homes. In the past 5 years, solar panel prices ...

Whether executives’ responsibility is to the shareholders or to a broader set of stakeholders remains a debate that is difficult to settle. While the debate may seem simple at first glance, there are many complexities that can make conclusions less ...

Tagged with: Business Banter David Kunsch Pouya Seifzadeh

 “All of everybody never did anything.” — Wynton Marsalis I write this column from my annual sojourn to the Chautauqua Institution near Jamestown. Each year for close to 150 years, Chautauqua has presented a nine-week summer program with a different ...

Tagged with: Gerald Archibald Non-profit Management

After the starters for both teams had been introduced before that night’s NFL exhibition game at Cleveland’s Municipal Stadium on Aug. 18, 1962, the public address announcer asked the 78,000 spectators to direct their attention to the home team sideline. ...

Tagged with: On Sports Scott Pitoniak

I didn’t want to like it. I wasn’t expecting the space or experience to be as special as it was. Certainly this feeling would fade in time, and I could chalk up the memory to a singular, rare occurrence. In ...

Tagged with: Architecturally Speaking Jason Streb

In 2007, when I first moved to the Rochester area from Houston Texas one of the many chores I had to attend to was to find a new dentist. I’ll never forget my first appointment. Reclining in the chair with ...

Tagged with: Business Ethics Jim Nortz

“I worked with HR to write an ad for an online job search board for a new position that I thought would generate some good candidates. We got lots of candidates who technically met the job description qualifications, but after ...

Tagged with: Kathleen Driscoll Managers at Work

Some overly optimistic Buffalo Bills followers want to draw parallels to their beloved football team’s resurrection back in the late 1980s. To me, that’s a leap greater than Josh Allen’s hurdling of that Minnesota Vikings linebacker last season. I’m not ...

Quick: What’s the first thing that comes to mind when I say “time tracking”? Depending on your experience and role in your company, you might say “the key to success and profitability,” “an important part of my job,” “a necessary ...

There’s a troubling issue plaguing B2B (business to business) suppliers and service providers. A recent study conducted by Mastercard found that 74% of business owners and employees think late payments are a fact of business life and will always happen, ...

  In the latest sign of fallout from global trade tensions, U.S. manufacturing activity contracted in August for the first time in nearly a decade. The monthly purchasing managers index produced by the business intelligence firm IHS Markit declined to ...

There are still miles to go before he sleeps, but indefatigable Bob Wheeler can finally see the finish line. A 65-year-long odyssey to ensure that Jim Thorpe receives his historical due—not only as arguably the finest athlete of all-time, but ...

Tagged with: On Sports Scott Pitoniak

It’s 2019, which means the future is here! Unfortunately, we don’t have the flying cars we were all promised. Instead, we have all of the information the world has ever known (practically) at arm’s length every minute of every day. ...

Pandion Optimization Alliance is proud to announce that registration is now open for its third annual Healthcare Innovations Conference. This full-day educational event will be held Nov. 13 at the Rochester Riverside Hotel. Last year, more than 200 healthcare administrators, ...

Tagged with: health Travis Heider

  According to MEC Mining, an Australian-based, globally active mining consultancy, up to 80 percent of the gold that is newly mined or recycled in the world is used for the production of jewelry.  Despite this fact and recognizing the ...