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Super Bowl commercials are often a reflection of society at a point in time, and that was definitely the case this year. Participating brands couldn’t afford to ignore the collective cultural mood. And many used common approaches to navigate the ...

A half-century ago this week, a seed was planted in the mind of a 6-year-old white kid from suburban Rochester who knew not a lick about Negro Leagues baseball. Doug Brei was an inquisitive lad, and already a voracious reader ...

2020 was a disrupter of a year, and the unpredictability will continue well into 2021. Just as every person on the planet has had to adapt, brands were also forced pivot to remain relevant when people are changing their behavior ...

In late February 2020, headlines of a rapidly spreading, deadly new virus emerged across all media. By mid-March, the entire world had changed. That rapid change continued throughout the year due to the pandemic, along with social and political unrest. ...

Sunday’s Super Bowl will be another opportunity for Patrick Mahomes to get the G.O.A.T.’s goat. Win or lose, Tom Brady still will be regarded by most as the Greatest Of All-Time. But a victory by the 25-year-old Mahomes versus the ...

In 2001, Vincent Calarco was riding high. His hard work and business savvy had put him atop Crompton Corporation — a multinational specialty chemical manufacturing company with nearly $4 billion in annual sales. Just one year later, his Connecticut home ...

There’s arguably no more important element to regional economic growth than a robust talent pipeline. It’s the lifeblood of economic activity, key to sustaining expansion at thriving companies and attracting new ones. Recent work by the Brookings Institution argued that ...

“Darkness cannot overcome darkness, only light can do that. Violence can never overcome violence, only peace can do that. Hate can never overcome hate, only love can do that.” — Martin Luther King Jr. The vast majority of Americans make ...

Though some doubted 2020 would ever end, we are now in 2021. Last year was one of pain and suffering. Pain and suffering for families, for businesses, for our health care systems, for our economy, and for our entire community. ...

In an ideal world, this memorable Buffalo Bills season would have ended with a blizzard. A blizzard of confetti, not snow. The Bills would have beaten Kansas City Sunday night, then headed to Tampa on Feb. 7 and knocked off ...

When we become the watcher of our thoughts, the good news is we don’t have to believe all the thoughts our brain offers. How we’re going to think at any moment is a choice and determines our essence. We take ...

Do your 2021 marketing plans include automatic, strategic outreach that seamlessly creates opportunity for your sales and support teams? If you are not using a marketing automation tool, you are certainly missing out of the full potential your marketing plan ...

Were these not pandemic-addled times, Chuck Hinkel would be following the lead of legendary singer Fats Domino and going to Kansas City. He’d be traveling to Arrowhead Stadium to work on the stats crew for CBS’s telecast of Sunday’s highly ...

It’s hard to believe that merely one year ago most of us had never even heard the phrase “social distancing” and the concept of quarantine was not nearly the routine measure to which we’ve become accustomed. Despite the multitude of ...

The world will certainly remember 2020 for the coronavirus and its devastating impact on human lives and the world economy. But 2020 will also be remembered as a year when events driven by climate change overwhelmed our defenses. Wildfires in ...