Tag: It’s Personal
A firm’s value lies in 4 C’s
Southern New England is peppered with family businesses; many of them are multi-generational companies stretching into the third and fourth generation of family ownership.
Over...
Beware of a mismanaged cloud
Organizations’ failure to properly manage the servers they lease from cloud service providers can allow attackers to receive private data, research my colleagues and...
The importance of ESG for companies
As the mantra to “make the world a better place” echoes throughout society, civic-minded groups, conservationists and organizations have led the charge to elevate...
Paid family leave equals happiness
The U.S. remains the only advanced economy without federal paid leave, despite overwhelming support for this benefit.
Employers are free to provide this benefit at...
Can a company have too much talent?
In 2014, journalist Matt Taibbi resigned from First Look Media, at the time a fledgling news organization only 10 months old. According to news...
AI may be answer in cyberattacks
The average business receives 10,000 alerts every day from the various software tools it uses to monitor for intruders, malware and other threats. Cybersecurity...
Business owners, be careful with the cloud
It’s payday! Your employees are expecting their automatic deposit to show up in their checking account by the time the workday starts. Of course,...
Mental health at the workplace: 5 strategies
COVID-19 has inflicted a serious mental health toll on many U.S. workers.
Those workers are better able to navigate mental health issues when their employers...
The future of work is hybrid
COVID-19 has changed the way we work.
Even before the pandemic, the U.S. workforce increasingly relied on remote collaboration technologies like videoconferencing. The global crisis...
In the future, higher ed will have fewer professors
At a large private university in Northern California, a business professor uses an avatar to lecture on a virtual stage.
Meanwhile, at a Southern university,...
