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In the mid-1990s I was early on a legal career path that would eventually lead to becoming the general counsel for a multi-platform media company lauded as one of the success stories of the “.com days” and Nasdaq stock market. ...

About 20 years ago, I graduated from college with a degree in marketing and not a clue on what to do with it. It was the period of early transition from traditional marketing to the new world of digital. Side ...

Whether you’re an early adopter, a fast follower or a late-to-the-party traditionalist, you can’t escape one fact: Technology is changing the culture of your company. And it’s doing it at a pace that’s fast and furious. Advancements in technology have ...

One of the most rewarding things about my job is the education I receive. Every topic I tackle, every interview I do, I learn something new. Often, I am inspired. That’s certainly been the case this past year. Thumbing through ...

Tagged with: On Sports Scott Pitoniak

The explosion in the use of exchange-traded funds (EFTs) over the past 15 years constitutes a revolution in the investment world. ETFs have done much to democratize investing by making the financial markets more easily accessible to retail investors, often ...

Tagged with: David Peartree The Informed Investor

I have a difficult time understanding the controversy surrounding New York State tax incentives that led Amazon to locate half of its East Coast HQ2 facility in Long Island City. I expect this development to create 25,000 jobs and have ...

Tagged with: On Business Robert Duffy

Until recently, many people didn’t realize how much of their personal data was being collected and stored in the digital realm. The truth is that companies capture, store and analyze large amounts of consumer data every day. They look at ...

Tagged with: Heidi Trost

Antiquing has long been one of Pat Stark’s favorite pastimes. “I like restoring a piece and watching it come back to life,’’ the Walworth resident once told me. “It’s like preserving history.” As we learned from Stark’s glory days as ...

Tagged with: On Sports Scott Pitoniak

One of the markers of wise parenting—and exemplary leadership —is learning when to be involved and when to be uninvolved. Many who read this column are aware of their own tendencies toward excess, both at home and at work. This ...

Tagged with: John Engels leadership

Over the course of 2018, tariffs and their economic impact dominated business headlines. What began as a handful of U.S.-imposed tariffs soon precipitated retaliatory tariffs from other countries. By the end of the third quarter, these combined tariffs had encompassed ...

Tagged with: Corporate Finance James Barger

In anticipation of the 1992 release of a god-awful movie about Babe Ruth, starring John Goodman, I chatted with Nick Urzetta for a column about the time the Sultan of Swat made a barnstorming appearance in Rochester. Nick, who was ...

Tagged with: On Sports Scott Pitoniak

Every Christmas season, we are invited to witness the deliberate slander of one of the world’s most famous businessmen: Ebenezer Scrooge. With each showing of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol,” poor Mr. Scrooge must endure this onslaught alone and without ...

Tagged with: Business Ethics Jim Nortz

On Nov. 14, more than 200 medical professionals representing 70 different organizations gathered at the 2018 Healthcare Innovations Conference to learn about some of the latest technologies in healthcare. Sponsored by Pandion Optimization Alliance, the full-day event at the Rochester ...

Tagged with: health Travis Heider

 I was sitting at my desk in the newsroom during the spring of 1991 when a clerk told me I had letter from the White House. My colleagues and I began chuckling. “Yeah, right,” I guffawed, figuring the clerk was ...

Tagged with: On Sports Scott Pitoniak

While I would love to give young entrepreneurs a single, failproof secret to business success, I can’t do that. But what I can do is tell them this: To succeed in any venture, you have to have an incredible belief ...

Tagged with: great workplaces Lauren Dixon