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If there’s one thing the month of March 2020 has taught us, it’s that the stock market doesn’t go up in a straight line.  Indeed, since its very inception, the equity market has experienced corrections, bear markets (often associated with ...

The recent Facebook post of her in doctor’s gown and N95 mask and visor evoked strong emotions. Many thanked Ann Marsh-Senic for her heroic work as an emergency room doctor on the front lines of a global pandemic. Some added ...

In my first draft of this column, the first sentence started with “During fast-changing times like these …” But I rewrote it because, really, when are times not fast-changing? While a presidential election and global pandemic add uncertainty to our ...

We are experiencing a massive shift in how people are consuming video content on their televisions. The number of homes with paid TV service (cable or satellite) peaked in 2014 at 100.5 million. According to eMarketer, this number will decline ...

“America’s healthcare system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.” — Walter Cronkite Walter Cronkite died in 2009.  I am not sure of the date of this quote.  However, the “most trusted man in America” was certainly accurate when he ...

As we adjust to life during, and after, the COVID-19 outbreak, families and businesses alike are faced with worrisome financial uncertainty. Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s order requiring that all “non-essential” workers in New York state remain at home and certain businesses ...

If you’ve attended Rochester Red Wings games at Frontier Field, you’ve probably seen and heard Tom Girot in action. Like big-birded baseball mascots Spikes and Mittsy, he’s impossible to miss. Sporting a rubbery, pointy Conehead headpiece inspired by an old ...

Corporations of all shapes and sizes are subject to millions, if not billions, of statutes, regulations, rules, directives, guidelines, decrees and executive orders. Given the pervasive and encyclopedic nature of legal mandates on corporations, one question business professionals may rightly ...

Peloton Interactive Inc., the popular fitness enterprise, came under scrutiny last holiday season for its commercial depicting a man gifting one of the company’s stationary bikes to his wife.  Before most could “work off” those festive foods consumed during the ...

In a matter of days, the coronavirus pandemic shifted to front and center in the public psyche. The first two weeks of March saw the crisis escalate from a newsworthy concern in a few global hotspots to a global pandemic. ...

Were these normal times, I’d be opining on a number of juicy sports topics this week. I’d be all over the blockbuster trade that brought wide receiver Stefon Diggs to Buffalo, giving quarterback Josh Allen the target that might make ...

Now more than ever, the combination of the current interest rate environment along with economic uncertainty calls for a more active approach to managing cash. In fact, while many companies have taken a passive approach while focused on growing their ...

I am extremely pleased that the Small Business Council of Rochester has decided to fully realign with Greater Rochester Chamber of Commerce after operating as an independent membership organization under the Rochester Chamber affiliate umbrella for more than a decade.  The ...

“I’m on a new cross-departmental team that is working on an important new initiative in the company that has the potential to help improve company revenue long into the future. Unfortunately, one team member dominates every meeting, even to the point of trying ...

The spread of COVID-19, commonly known as coronavirus, is no longer under the radar and the impact is now going beyond just health concerns. Since the initial warning issued by the Chinese government in December, the virus by March 10 ...