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 News conferences have been in the news ever since tennis superstar Naomi Osaka announced last week she wasn’t going to meet the press during the French Open. This created quite the furor, not only among inquiring minds like mine, but ...

The pandemic has changed the landscape of business and economy in many ways, but does that mean business strategy should be reimagined altogether? Paradigm shifts in the business and economics are not quite common, but they do occur, and when ...

Data derived from many sources uniformly confirm what one might suspect — ethical leadership has a demonstrable positive impact on employee engagement and reduces misconduct. The Ethics Resource Center’s many National and Global Business Ethics Surveys that began in 1994, ...

In my March column, I thanked the RBJ for its inaugural list of the “Power 100” in the Rochester region. I also issued a challenge for all of us listed to come together and focus our efforts on so many ...

A day before he was to tee off in the first round of the 2003 PGA Championship, Phil Mickelson turned his attention to a drive down East Avenue rather than a drive down the famed fairways of Oak Hill Country ...

From enrolling in a full-time MBA program to going all in on a lifelong dream of becoming a professional musician, a few of our high-performing, much-loved team members are leaving the agency to pursue a passion. And it sure is bittersweet.   As a mother, I feel an almost maternal sense of pride ...

The early 20th century novelist Thomas Wolfe warned that you can’t go home again. He clearly wasn’t a baseball fan, because the game is all about going home again. And again. And again. And Tuesday, on an absolutely, gorgeous 80-degree ...

Investor enthusiasm for SPACs continued apace during the first quarter with upwards of 400 initial public offerings raising $125 billion. In this column we look behind the headlines and the hype in an effort to provide readers with some very basic information about ...

The Josh Allen contract extension chatter got me to thinking about when Jim Kelly signed his five-year contract for $8 million in the summer of 1986. It was the most lucrative deal in Buffalo Bills and National Football League history. ...

All of the major equity indices are close to their all-time highs at the moment, in a secular bull market that has just entered its thirteenth year. In terms of total return, a growth style of investing has far exceeded ...

The nation’s economic recovery accelerated once again in March, pushing closer to pre-pandemic job levels. Buoyed by gains in sectors like leisure and hospitality, education and construction, the jobs picture continues to improve from the COVID-induced depths of last spring. ...

One of the key issues facing the Rochester region as we emerge from COVID-19 is talent. Workforce development has always been crucial to economic success, and now it is even more important for restoring the economic strength that many of ...

One of Congress’s goals in the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARPA) was to provide continued health care coverage to employees who lose their health coverage as a consequence of the pandemic. The federal government achieved this goal by agreeing to pick up the cost of employees’ COBRA coverage ...

“Sometimes we need to disconnect in order to reconnect with what matters.” –Anonymous Believe it or not, we are now in Year 2 of the global pandemic. While the United States appears to be making good progress on vaccinations, many ...

Matt LeCroy looks back on his one season in Rochester with fondness. And regret. By that summer of 2007, the injuries had mounted and his skills had declined. He was holding on for dear life — an aged (by-baseball-standards) 31-year-old ...