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I have received a great deal of positive feedback on my Rochester Business Journal column from May, which was titled, “Now is the time to reinforce our civic and regional pride.” As a follow-up to that column, I want to ...

Tagged with: On Business Robert Duffy

Mutual funds continue to be a popular investment option for retail investors. At year-end 2017, retail investors owned 90 percent of the 18.7 trillion U.S. mutual fund assets, with the remaining 10 percent owned by institutional investors. Mutual funds appeal ...

Tagged with: Patricia Foster The Informed Investor

There are times when Nancy Lopez misses competitive golf. Times when the 61-year-old with the new knee and another on the way wishes she was 21 again and taking the sports world by storm. “I definitely miss hitting great shots ...

Tagged with: On Sports Scott Pitoniak

When we think of employee wellness, we likely think of health. Talk of rising health care costs and health care reform have become part of the national discourse, and study after study shows that happy, healthy employees have a positive ...

Election Day will be here before you know it, and who you choose to represent you in both the state and federal government will have a huge impact on our health care system. Health care is one of the most ...

Like many sportswriters and fans, I easily get sucked into Mount Rushmore debates. If you could choose only four people to carve into your favorite team’s version of the mountainous presidents’ statue in the Black Hills of South Dakota, who ...

Tagged with: On Sports Scott Pitoniak

Shortly after arriving at Adecco as their new vice president of business ethics & compliance, I was asked to talk about business ethics at an Adecco North American conference in Dallas, where the top 180 leaders from the region were ...

Tagged with: Business Ethics Jim Nortz

“Two of my team members have been having an affair for a while now and one of them is married. They have been goofing off to a certain extent, taking long lunches, calling in sick on the same day, sitting ...

Tagged with: Kathleen Driscoll Managers at Work

Climate change is a big problem. Not just “big” in that it may cause a lot of important problems in the future, but also “big” in the sense that fighting it requires participation from the entire world, lots of new ...

A friend of mine needed surgery to remove a benign tumor in his pituitary gland. Like any surgery involving the brain, that’s an operation requiring great precision. The involved parts are small and delicate. Not long after his successful operation, ...

Tagged with: John Engels leadership

The prognosis was beyond gloomy. It sounded more like a death sentence. Ricky Palermo was told that not only would he never walk again after being paralyzed in an automobile accident in 1981, but also he could count on living ...

Tagged with: On Sports Scott Pitoniak

After 20 years of compiling the annual list of 100 Best Companies to Work For, Great Place to Work® has updated the metrics it uses to evaluate and rank companies. Until now, it has measured trust, pride and camaraderie, because ...

Tagged with: great workplaces Lauren Dixon

The roots of his distinguished broadcasting career can be traced to the dashboard radio of a parked car in a Commack, N.Y. driveway, just off the Long Island Expressway. It was there, in the family jalopy, that 10-year-old Bob Costas ...

Tagged with: On Sports Scott Pitoniak

The Supreme Court has upended one of the most basic principles of sales tax law, allowing states to impose sales tax collection duties on out of state companies. The 5-4 ruling in Wayfair v. South Dakota, authored by retiring Justice ...

Tagged with: Josh Gewolb Taxing Matters

In the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) v. W. J. Howey, the U.S. Supreme Court established a test for determining whether an instrument is an investment contract that is treated as a security and subject to securities laws. William Hinman, ...

Tagged with: Jeremy J. Wolk law