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A New York City-based small-business insurance firm plans to open a location in the Town of Brighton, creating nearly 100 new jobs in the region over the next five years. CoverWallet uses analytics and state-of-the-art technology to provide a convenient, ...

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Friday, May 4 marks the 10th annual Saunders Scholars national competition at which America’s Next Top Young Entrepreneur will be crowned. The day-long event at Rochester Institute of Technology celebrates middle school and high school student CEOs representing 62 small businesses ...

Four iconic video games have been inducted to the Strong’s World Video Game Hall of Fame. John Madden Football, Tomb Raider, Spacewar! and Final Fantasy VII have been chosen from a field of 12 finalists that also included Asteroids, Call ...

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St. John Fisher College and the University at Buffalo School of Law have announced a new 3+3 program that allows undergraduate students at Fisher to earn both their undergraduate and law degrees in six years, and hold down the cost of their ...

SWBR’s work on the University of Rochester’s Genesee Hall has been recognized by the Rochester chapter of the Construction Specifications Institute, or CSI. SWBR won the Genesee Award for Construction Management, which acknowledges exceptional teamwork between owner, designer and contractor ...

Always in pursuit of the next adventure, Christian Champion is diving into his latest business pursuit: designing, manufacturing and selling dive watches. Champion, 38, is a native of Lima, Peru, where he was raised by his British father and Peruvian-American ...

  Old favorites and new creations are set to entertain visitors to this year’s Imagine RIT: Innovation and Creativity Festival, taking place on Saturday, April 28 on the campus of Rochester Institute of Technology. The automated s’more maker has been supplanted by ...

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Everybody’s career path is unique, but there are some common threads for people who climb the ladder quickly. Ambition and resolve link these four executives who have achieved high-level positions at a young age. Here they share discuss the pivotal ...

From a child at home with the flu to a snow storm to having an appliance delivered, millennials, like their older counterparts, are bombarded with life’s little interruptions. But as young professionals climb the corporate ladder and gain more responsibility ...

When Pamela Black-Colton, the executive director of admissions & student services for University of Rochester’s School of Education, was earning her MBA at night, she never went anywhere without her textbook. She would use any spare minute she could find ...

The workforce is changing. Generation Z is making its way into the workspace and baby boomers are quickly becoming a minority. Millennials are revolutionizing the workforce with high expectations and a sense of urgency. Young professionals in today’s economy are ...

The Rochester Business Journal has honored business people of all age groups through its many awards programs. This candid conversation provides the opportunity for a recent Forty Under 40 winner to talk to a recent ICON Honors award winner about ...

As executive director of Connected Communities, a nonprofit dedicated to breaking the cycle of poverty and revitalizing the Beechwood and EMMA neighborhoods, LaShunda Leslie-Smith makes it a priority to get out into those communities as much as possible. “I am ...

A recent Harvard study showed that 51 percent of millennials do not support the system of capitalism. In many ways, they have a right to be skeptical. Levels of inequality in the United States are among the highest in the ...

Age: 28 Company: Upstate Special Needs Planning Position: Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer What organizations do you volunteer with? Current involvement includes: WXXI & The Little Theater Board of Trustees; Villa of Hope Board of Directors; Mental Health Association Board ...