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  Kellie and Kristi Wright are not only mother and daughter, they’re business co-owners. The duo have different backgrounds—Kellie, of Mendon,  previously worked as a financial adviser in design sales management and Kristi is a hairdresser at The Men’s Room ...

Dolores Kruchten, longtime Eastman Kodak Co. staffer and leader of Eastman Business Park,  will retire next month. Kodak CFO Dave Bullwinkle will assume responsibility for EBP and Kodak Corporate Real Estate at that time. During her 36-year career as a ...

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Now that the legal marketplace has spent at least a decade in the digital age, the next challenge is to keep pace with the evolving technical landscape. E-discovery and sophisticated presentation tools and software have become commonplace in many courtrooms ...

As if winning record federal support earlier this year wasn’t enough, the University of Rochester’s Laboratory for Laser Energetics now can claim two new Nobel laureates. The Nobel Foundation in Sweden announced on Tuesday that three physicists would share the ...

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An Ogden native, whose first trip to the Rochester Museum and Science Center was so impactful that she went on to earn a degree in space sciences, has been selected as RMSC’s next president and CEO. When Hillary Olson was ...

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Uncertainties remain as New York employers are preparing to comply with the state’s reform of workplace sexual harassment laws adopted earlier this year requiring employers to enact policies and provide employee training to combat workplace harassment and discrimination. Sexual assault ...

Jen Newman of Young Lion Brewing Company in Canandaigua discusses women in the beer industry, where the beer market is headed and what craft beer in the Finger Lakes means to the region. Subscribe to our podcast for free! Get ...

One of the most challenging parts of starting a small business—besides developing and executing a feasible business plan—is financing. There isn’t one clear-cut way to secure capital to fund a new company. The options are endless. Every business is different ...

The Ibero American Action League Inc. will partner with the County of Monroe and the City of Rochester on the 2018 Upstate Latino Summit. The event will be held Oct. 17 at the Joseph A. Floreano Rochester Riverside Convention Center ...

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When the National Susan B. Anthony Museum & House found itself with an unusual problem last year, it turned to the Greater Rochester Quality Council for help. “It was actually a really unique opportunity. Our visitorship had increased 33 percent ...

While overall construction employment matched a 10-year high in August of 7.26 million, the number of women holding jobs in the industry remains far below pre-recession numbers. There were 971,000 women nationwide working in the construction field in August, according ...

Recipients of the 24th annual Rochester Business Journal Forty Under 40 awards have been selected. The honorees are professionals younger than 40 who demonstrate leadership in the workplace and in the community. “This year’s Forty Under 40 honorees are building ...

Veteran television journalist Janet Lomax is the newest Frederick H. Minett Professor at Rochester Institute of Technology. Lomax, who was news anchor at News 10 NBC for more than three decades, kicks off her year-long appointment at RIT’s Division of ...

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The 25th class of The Entrepreneurs Network (TEN) business accelerator will be offered to women only, officials said this week. Ten’s Women Business Accelerator will teach women entrepreneurs new and best practices in human resources, marketing and sales integration, finances and ...

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Willow Domestic Violence Center has tapped a five-year veteran of the nonprofit as its new leader. Meaghan Lacey de Chateauvieux had for three months shared interim leadership responsibility with Mike Dedee, director of operations, and Marie Viavattine, director of programs ...

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