While other celebrities have been content to shill for products, offering themselves as endorsers, Lady Gaga is taking the reins and stamping her indelible mark on said products.
adminOctober 13, 2014
Working mothers (and fathers) are making significant contributions to the U.S. economy and the companies that employ them, but they are doing so without the support that they need. Flex-time and other pro-family policies are not simply a “nice” thing that businesses can do for their employees. They make business sense too, as they reduce employee turnover.
adminOctober 1, 2014
Fashion and politics may be strange bedfellows, but they definitely go together. Rana Florida interviews Shauna Levy, the President of the Design Exchange and Frank Toskan, co-founder of MAC Cosmetics and talks about the Design Exchange annual party.
adminSeptember 29, 2014
Two of its leading prophets, Richard Florida and Ray Kurzweil, to give their definition at the Simon Frser University, Vancouver Oct. 22 event.
adminSeptember 29, 2014
The reality is that incentives play little if any role in companies’ location decisions, which are based on more fundamental factors like labor costs, the quality of the workforce, proximity to markets and access to suppliers.
adminSeptember 26, 2014
As summer slipped away this week, the air is crisp and the leaves are falling, it’s the perfect time of year to entertain at home with friends over some hearty and delicious comfort foods.
Entertaining doesn’t have to be timely, expensive or fancy. Here are 10 tips to keep it simple yet sophisticated this season. And watch Creative Entertaining: Dinner at the Farm for more suggestions.
adminSeptember 25, 2014
‘Job creators’ wring tax breaks from states at the expense of everyone else.
adminSeptember 22, 2014
Bands and startups have a lot in common. Sleepless nights, fueled on caffeine and adrenaline, they both have a lot at stake and chances are they’ve sacrificed a lot to get to where they are. Success in a hyper competitive marketplace relies on a number of strategic factors. Here are 15 simple tips to ensure your startup is a number one hit.
adminSeptember 19, 2014
Rana wants to upgrade you. As CEO of The Creative Class Group and author of the best-seller “Upgrade, Taking Your Work and Life from Ordinary to Extraordinary“, Rana Florida knows how to pump originality into the every day. She’s upgraded business development, marketing and global operations for the likes of BMW, Converse and Johnson & Johnson. Today she shares 8 things that make her smarter, from jet-setting iPhone apps to her favorite wireless gadgets.
adminSeptember 16, 2014
Virtually all of the published research on the subject shows that most economic development incentives are a senseless waste of taxpayer money. My own analysis found no connection between incentive dollars spent per capita and such measures of economic success as wages, incomes, human capital levels or unemployment.It’s time to put an end to incentive madness once and for all.
adminSeptember 16, 2014