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We live in a world that is overcrowded and frankly cluttered with advertising and marketing messages. Yankelovich, a market research firm, has estimated that a person living in a modern U.S. city is exposed to over 5,000 advertising messages per ...

Tagged with: Digital Marketing Karl Heberger

Lost in the tsunami of hype and hoopla that is the National Football League draft was word that the league is convening a summit next week to discuss the future of one of the game’s most exciting and violent plays—the ...

Tagged with: On Sports Scott Pitoniak

Let’s start this discussion with a cautionary tale: Last year, a blog called “PopFront” posted an article entitled “Swiftly to the Right: Taylor subtly gets the lowercase kkk in formation.” The article accused country-turn-pop music singer Taylor Swift of supporting ...

Tagged with: Jeremy J. Wolk law

I was recently honored along with Monroe Community College President Anne Kress to have Gov. Andrew Cuomo select us as co-chairs of the ROC the Riverway advisory panel. Work is now underway by the group to develop a comprehensive plan ...

Tagged with: On Business Robert Duffy

The investment industry is riddled with conflicts of interest. In a complex financial system with a wide array of financial professionals, intermediaries, products and services from which to choose, no one should be surprised that the best interests of the ...

Tagged with: David Peartree The Informed Investor

The first Buffalo Bills draft I covered back in 1985 was rather anticlimactic. The Bills already had signed Bruce Smith to a multiyear contract weeks before late NFL commissioner Pete Rozelle stepped to the podium to announce that Buffalo officially ...

Tagged with: On Sports Scott Pitoniak

Organizations and their business managers love their data. And they are rolling in it. As we have covered in previous columns, there is no shortage—we live in a world of big data. Literally, every move we make creates another data ...

Tagged with: Jacqueline Mozrall

So far, 2018 has been a dynamic year in healthcare. Rochester hospitals and healthcare systems are essential to our economy and our overall wellbeing. They have not only served more than 4.1 million patients in Rochester, but also generated $733 ...

Tagged with: On Health Travis Heider

Howard Brenner admits there have been occasions, particularly in recent years, when he’s wanted to punt. Occasions, when he’s seriously considered ending this 60-year love-hate relationship with the Cleveland Browns. The past two seasons—heck, the past two decades—have been times ...

Tagged with: On Sports Scott Pitoniak

Years ago, a colleague told me a story from his childhood that I am reminded of every time I read about another corporate scandal. When he was a kid living in Arkansas in the 1950s, the Easter chicks that parents ...

Tagged with: Business Ethics Jim Nortz

“I’m the manager of a small department and I’m near the traditional retirement age of 65. Recently, I was surprised to be asked by a couple of different senior managers about when I plan to retire. The truth is I ...

Tagged with: Kathleen Driscoll Managers at Work

Earlier this year, KeyBank conducted a survey of businesses with annual revenues between $20 million and $4 billion to uncover how they were planning to invest in 2018. More than 90 percent of respondents said they planned to keep their ...

Tagged with: Corporate Finance James Barger

Joe Altobelli’s room at the Edna Tina Wilson Living Center in Greece is festooned with remembrances from swings past. There are photographs from his days managing the Rochester Red Wings, San Francisco Giants and Baltimore Orioles. In one of the ...

Tagged with: On Sports Scott Pitoniak

I am not among those who fear the people. They, and not the rich, are our dependents for continued freedom. —Thomas Jefferson I was in Manchester, Vermont recently and saw a memorial to Thomas Jefferson that included a number of ...

Tagged with: Gerald Archibald Non-profit Management

Each year, at the Final Four of the NCAA basketball tournament, a Most Outstanding Performer Award is presented. I’m ready to cast my ballot before the opening tip. My MOP? Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt from Loyola-Chicago. You may think that’s ...

Tagged with: On Sports Scott Pitoniak