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A report was recently released by eMarketer that analyzed how U.S. consumers spend time with various types of media. The average time spent with almost every type of media was down from last year. The average American adult is spending ...

Tagged with: Digital Marketing Karl Heberger

Ron Guidry’s fork-in-the-road moment occurred on an interstate just outside of Harrisburg, Pa. in the summer of 1976. Angry about his most recent demotion to Triple-A Syracuse, the 25-year-old New York Yankees pitching prospect decided he’d had enough of the ...

Tagged with: On Sports Scott Pitoniak

  Worries about the uncertain path of U.S. trade policy appear to be weighing on business confidence, according to a “flash” survey of 288 small and midsized companies conducted by M&T Bank from May 23 to June 7. Feedback gathered ...

When Wegmans announced it would stop using plastic bags beginning March 1, 2020, the decision became one of the more visible and controversial local examples of a company implementing sustainable practices in its daily operations. And it got me thinking ...

Tagged with: great workplaces Lauren Dixon

Obtaining the equipment your business needs to grow and stay competitive remains an imperative. While the 2017 tax overhaul was intended to position businesses for growth and profitability, it could change how these acquisitions affect your business. Leading-edge technology, timeliness, ...

Tagged with: Corporate Finance James Barger

While researching a magazine feature I was writing about what a seminal year 1969 was for baseball and America, I stumbled across a story that was not merely out of the park, but out of this world. A true moon ...

Tagged with: On Sports Scott Pitoniak

Greater Rochester Chamber of Commerce was pleased to recently partner with Flower City Solutions to plan and host “CannaBusiness: Capitalizing on the Cannabis Economy,” an event that opened a community conversation on the emerging marijuana and hemp industries. While Rochester ...

Tagged with: cannabis marijuana Robert Duffy

Rochester Institute of Technology recently hosted the international finals for the Young Entrepreneurs Academy (YEA!). Founded in 2004 at the University of Rochester, with support from the Kauffman Foundation and subsequently E. Philip Saunders and other local business leaders, YEA! ...

Tagged with: Advancing Business Jacqueline Mozrall

The day after Gary Scott’s funeral on a somber spring morn in 1968, Jim Bruen felt compelled to return to his friend’s freshly dug grave site. There, in the quiet solitude of Rochester Riverside Cemetery, he said a prayer and ...

Tagged with: On Sports Scott Pitoniak

Regardless of your party affiliation, the fact is, ever since the New York State Senate flipped to Democratic control, Upstate New York has lost power in the New York State Legislature. Throughout Rochester and the Finger Lakes, not a single ...

Tagged with: health Travis Heider

Although the concept of virtual reality (VR) has been around for a long time, the buzz around Google Glass in 2013—Google’s initial failed attempt at smart glasses—made the combination of the virtual and physical worlds seem right around the corner. ...

Tagged with: Heidi Trost technology

As the RBJ reported last month, Gerard J. Rooney, president of St. John Fisher College, has joined college and university presidents from across the country in endorsing carbon pricing as an economy-wide approach to lowering greenhouse gas emissions that cause ...

Tagged with: Environmental Business Paul Kane

Shortly after being released by the Houston Astros following the 1987 season, the Baltimore Orioles contacted Dale Berra about becoming a player-coach with their Triple-A affiliate, the Rochester Red Wings. The son of beloved American icon Yogi Berra was grateful ...

Tagged with: On Sports Scott Pitoniak

Systemic corporate corruption, exemplified by the recent Wells Fargo and Volkswagen scandals, are not the result of a few rogue employees’ clandestine misdeeds. Instead, systemic corporate corruption involves the actions of hundreds, if not thousands of individuals at every level ...

Tagged with: Business Ethics Jim Nortz

 The idea of environmental, social and governance-friendly (ESG) investing has been around for quite a while now; long enough, in fact, that many financial institutions are now offering customized ESG portfolios to their clients.  One that I’m familiar with boasts ...