Business Columns
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Local studies highlight gap, struggles for women in ITMar 31, 2017 1:00 am - There's no debating that employers in technology industries point to a skills gap as a reason they cannot fill job openings. However, two recent studies from suburban-ba...
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Loving the product and gut feelings help Melon Ink growMar 29, 2017 1:00 am - Nancy Solomon started her business 23 years ago with a little sewing machine in the bedroom of her Lake Zurich home and the skill of sewing taught to her by her mother y...
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As supercars go, this one catches the eyeMar 27, 2017 6:00 am - After delivering the raw Beast and Beast X roadsters, boutique carmaker Rezvani has a new model to unleash: the Beast Alpha. The Beast Alpha is an evolution of Rezvani's...
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Lawyer-turned-Internet radio host loves new gigMar 27, 2017 1:00 am - Al Weissman was a lawyer for about 25 years, handling real estate and other cases. He never expected to be an entertainer. When he retired in 2003, he planned to travel...
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Why make minorities lead diversity training?Mar 26, 2017 7:15 am - I do not have professional expertise in workplace diversity issues and believe my colleague and I are being used by management to be the "ethnic perspective" on these is...
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Planning should include business' end gameMar 26, 2017 1:00 am - End game is such a final term. Yet when Downers Grove business adviser Harry McCabe talks about your business' end game, the topic nestles nicely into the planning each ...
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Trumpcare: What small businesses should do nowMar 20, 2017 1:00 am - Whether Republicans in Congress coalesced during the handful of days between my writing this column and you reading it and passed some version of the American Health Car...
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Why you shouldn't clock out for a colleagueMar 19, 2017 7:10 am - Q: Our timekeeping system is online, and we are required to clock out for breaks, lunch and at the end of the day. Sometimes we bend the rules and take a short lunch in ...
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Cushy parental leave policies don't tell America's storyMar 19, 2017 7:00 am - Many companies have been noisily publicizing their cushy parental leave policies in recent years, telling the world they're bestowing workers with an increasingly genero...
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Wotnow? Local app grows up, gets socialMar 17, 2017 1:00 am - When we last checked in with Deepa Salem about a year ago, the Naperville woman was just getting new mobile app Wotnow off the ground. The app, which Salem saw as a solu...