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The first several months of 2018 have given us plenty to worry about, from happenings in corporate America, to broader events involving monetary and foreign policy. After witnessing the Dow Jones Industrial Average fall over 10 percent, from Jan. 26 ...

When it was announced in the late 1970s that Syracuse University would be building a 50,000-seat domed stadium on campus, a bunch of us idealistic twenty-somethings advocated that our alma mater’s new sports playpen be named after Ernie Davis. Not ...

Tagged with: On Sports Scott Pitoniak

When you’re looking to fill a job opening, it makes sense to recruit and hire people you think will enjoy good chemistry and hit it off with your team members—people who share your core values and behave in similar ways. ...

Tagged with: great workplaces Lauren Dixon

We live in a world that is overcrowded and frankly cluttered with advertising and marketing messages. Yankelovich, a market research firm, has estimated that a person living in a modern U.S. city is exposed to over 5,000 advertising messages per ...

Tagged with: Digital Marketing Karl Heberger

Lost in the tsunami of hype and hoopla that is the National Football League draft was word that the league is convening a summit next week to discuss the future of one of the game’s most exciting and violent plays—the ...

Tagged with: On Sports Scott Pitoniak

Let’s start this discussion with a cautionary tale: Last year, a blog called “PopFront” posted an article entitled “Swiftly to the Right: Taylor subtly gets the lowercase kkk in formation.” The article accused country-turn-pop music singer Taylor Swift of supporting ...

Tagged with: Jeremy J. Wolk law

I was recently honored along with Monroe Community College President Anne Kress to have Gov. Andrew Cuomo select us as co-chairs of the ROC the Riverway advisory panel. Work is now underway by the group to develop a comprehensive plan ...

Tagged with: On Business Robert Duffy

The investment industry is riddled with conflicts of interest. In a complex financial system with a wide array of financial professionals, intermediaries, products and services from which to choose, no one should be surprised that the best interests of the ...

Tagged with: David Peartree The Informed Investor

The first Buffalo Bills draft I covered back in 1985 was rather anticlimactic. The Bills already had signed Bruce Smith to a multiyear contract weeks before late NFL commissioner Pete Rozelle stepped to the podium to announce that Buffalo officially ...

Tagged with: On Sports Scott Pitoniak

Organizations and their business managers love their data. And they are rolling in it. As we have covered in previous columns, there is no shortage—we live in a world of big data. Literally, every move we make creates another data ...

Tagged with: Jacqueline Mozrall

So far, 2018 has been a dynamic year in healthcare. Rochester hospitals and healthcare systems are essential to our economy and our overall wellbeing. They have not only served more than 4.1 million patients in Rochester, but also generated $733 ...

Tagged with: On Health Travis Heider

Howard Brenner admits there have been occasions, particularly in recent years, when he’s wanted to punt. Occasions, when he’s seriously considered ending this 60-year love-hate relationship with the Cleveland Browns. The past two seasons—heck, the past two decades—have been times ...

Tagged with: On Sports Scott Pitoniak

Years ago, a colleague told me a story from his childhood that I am reminded of every time I read about another corporate scandal. When he was a kid living in Arkansas in the 1950s, the Easter chicks that parents ...

Tagged with: Business Ethics Jim Nortz

“I’m the manager of a small department and I’m near the traditional retirement age of 65. Recently, I was surprised to be asked by a couple of different senior managers about when I plan to retire. The truth is I ...

Tagged with: Kathleen Driscoll Managers at Work

Earlier this year, KeyBank conducted a survey of businesses with annual revenues between $20 million and $4 billion to uncover how they were planning to invest in 2018. More than 90 percent of respondents said they planned to keep their ...

Tagged with: Corporate Finance James Barger