Rochester Business Journal Leading source of business news and information in Rochester, N.Y.

Shortly after answering the phone, Don Stevens excuses himself briefly so he can mute the television. The symbolism smacks me like a slap-shot to the skull. For the first time in 34 hockey seasons, the booming voice of the Rochester ...

Reports of trading activities by four senators in advance of the recent market meltdown didn’t exactly send shock waves through Washington, D.C. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) has called for ethics investigations, a necessary but insufficient response. Without a ...

The emergence of COVID-19 has served a major blow to industrial and economic infrastructure worldwide. While the spread of the disease did not happen suddenly and in a uniform way across countries, it started to have an immediate impact in ...

We are facing unprecedented times. Everyone has felt the pain and impact caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and the social distancing and business restrictions related to it. Greater Rochester Chamber of Commerce business operations such as RBA Staffing and background ...

Stay disciplined and seek opportunities to upgrade portfolios. Don’t succumb to panic. After having avoided several near misses, U.S. equities fell into bear market territory for the first time in more than 11 years, plunging a dizzying 32% from record ...

If there’s one thing the month of March 2020 has taught us, it’s that the stock market doesn’t go up in a straight line.  Indeed, since its very inception, the equity market has experienced corrections, bear markets (often associated with ...

The recent Facebook post of her in doctor’s gown and N95 mask and visor evoked strong emotions. Many thanked Ann Marsh-Senic for her heroic work as an emergency room doctor on the front lines of a global pandemic. Some added ...

In my first draft of this column, the first sentence started with “During fast-changing times like these …” But I rewrote it because, really, when are times not fast-changing? While a presidential election and global pandemic add uncertainty to our ...

We are experiencing a massive shift in how people are consuming video content on their televisions. The number of homes with paid TV service (cable or satellite) peaked in 2014 at 100.5 million. According to eMarketer, this number will decline ...

“America’s healthcare system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.” — Walter Cronkite Walter Cronkite died in 2009.  I am not sure of the date of this quote.  However, the “most trusted man in America” was certainly accurate when he ...

As we adjust to life during, and after, the COVID-19 outbreak, families and businesses alike are faced with worrisome financial uncertainty. Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s order requiring that all “non-essential” workers in New York state remain at home and certain businesses ...

If you’ve attended Rochester Red Wings games at Frontier Field, you’ve probably seen and heard Tom Girot in action. Like big-birded baseball mascots Spikes and Mittsy, he’s impossible to miss. Sporting a rubbery, pointy Conehead headpiece inspired by an old ...

Corporations of all shapes and sizes are subject to millions, if not billions, of statutes, regulations, rules, directives, guidelines, decrees and executive orders. Given the pervasive and encyclopedic nature of legal mandates on corporations, one question business professionals may rightly ...

Peloton Interactive Inc., the popular fitness enterprise, came under scrutiny last holiday season for its commercial depicting a man gifting one of the company’s stationary bikes to his wife.  Before most could “work off” those festive foods consumed during the ...

In a matter of days, the coronavirus pandemic shifted to front and center in the public psyche. The first two weeks of March saw the crisis escalate from a newsworthy concern in a few global hotspots to a global pandemic. ...