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In January, Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) announced its intent to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The decision came following months of ongoing wildfires in California, which left the company with billions of dollars in liability. The chain of events ...

Tagged with: Business Banter David Kunsch Pouya Seifzadeh

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, now just over a year old, represents the greatest shift in American tax policy since the Reagan years. Yet, for all the press reports, it can be difficult for business owner-operators to take a ...

By the time you read this, many of you already will have jumped into your office pool and filled out your NCAA basketball tournament brackets. The American Gaming Association estimates 149-million brackets will be submitted physically and digitally before March ...

Tagged with: On Sports Scott Pitoniak

The Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) is the statute that regulates the collection of credit information and access to credit reports. It was enacted in 1970 to promote the accuracy, fairness and privacy of information in the files of consumer ...

Tagged with: Jeremy J. Wolk law

From a business and economic perspective, one of the most overlooked assets in our region is education. I recently had the honor of attending an A Community Together (ACT) for Education meeting with retired West Irondequoit Central School District Superintendent ...

Tagged with: On Business Robert Duffy

Patrick Mahomes realized at a young age he had been given a gift. Something that made him different from his peers. As a five-year-old, he could fling a baseball effortlessly and hard across the diamond. The son of former Major ...

Tagged with: On Sports Scott Pitoniak

“I was put in charge of my company’s new venture, and after a few months, it looks like it’s going to fail. The owners, who are adhering to the ‘fail fast’ philosophy, are OK with that. But I wonder, how ...

Tagged with: Kathleen Driscoll Managers at Work

Joe DiMaggio was asked back in the early 1990s how much money he would command if he were still in his baseball prime. “I’d walk into (New York Yankees owner) George Steinbrenner’s office, shake his hand, and say, ‘Howdy, partner,’” ...

Tagged with: On Sports Scott Pitoniak

Hospitality-related industries are contributing more than 10 percent of the world’s GDP; tourism alone employs roughly one in 10 people globally. It’s big business—with huge opportunity for technology disruption. Restaurants, arguably the lowest tech segment, make up over 72 percent ...

Tagged with: Advancing Business Jacqueline Mozrall

In 2014, Raj Sisodia and John Mackey published Conscious Capitalism: Liberating the Heroic Spirit of Business setting forth a business model that the authors assert optimizes business performance. As proof of this claim, in 2018, Sisodia published the following data ...

Tagged with: Business Ethics Jim Nortz

Google Analytics is a free service that allows marketers and website owners to track users’ behavior on their websites. It can tell the story that is so critical to understanding how to improve the performance of a site—specifically, who is ...

Tagged with: Digital Marketing Karl Heberger

  Labor supply constraints are perhaps the greatest uncertainty facing the Rochester economy in 2019. The region ended 2018 at essentially “full” employment. On a seasonally adjusted basis, the local jobless rate hovered near an 18-year low of 3.8 percent, ...

Commissioners of sports leagues are employed by the team owners they oversee. And that can make for a sticky wicket when an owner runs afoul of the law, and the boss suddenly finds himself in the awkward position of having ...

Tagged with: On Sports Scott Pitoniak

I’ve been thinking about “sense of belonging” lately after noticing it’s a theme that comes up frequently when I interview people for open positions. When I ask why they’re looking for a new job and what they’re looking for in ...

Tagged with: great workplaces Lauren Dixon

In 2014, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) rendered its decision in Alice v.  CLS Bank, creating significant ambiguity as to when computed-implemented inventions (e.g., software, programmable logic) are patentable in the United States. Last month, the United ...