Archive for February 2020
Coe president McInally to retire next year
David McInally, Coe College president, plans to retire in June 2021, the Cedar Rapids institution announced. McInally became Coe’s president in 2013. During his tenure he has worked to increase enrollment and student success rates. …
Read MoreFive Threats to Watch
While the stock market continues to skyrocket, many questions about the economic outlook for Iowa remain. How will trade deals affect the state? Will an election year add an element of uncertainty for investors? What …
Read MoreBusiness Record 2-14-20
NOTEBOOK: Who’s in the Feb. 14 issue?
Here’s a list of local people in the Feb. 14 issue of the Business Record and the page number of the article in which they are mentioned. Members can read all of this week’s stories at businessrecord.com/insider and …
Read MoreNOTEBOOK: We asked readers how comfortable they feel about their ability to retire
As part of our most recent Leaders Survey, we asked: How secure do you feel in your ability to retire comfortably? Respondents could answer anywhere from 1 (not secure at all) to 10 (very secure). …
Read MoreMcLellan: Narrow is pure gold
In last week’s column, I laid out the argument that marketing has shifted to a trust-based authority positioning. There’s plenty of data to support the idea that because of their skeptical nature, consumers had made …
Read MoreThe Elbert Files: Final caucus thoughts
Decades ago when I was a political reporter, I thought there was no way Iowa’s Democratic presidential caucuses could get more arcane or convoluted.
Boy, was I wrong.
I never thought the Iowa caucuses were …
Read MoreThe ADA generation
Editor’s note: Research suggests that if U.S. companies embrace disability inclusion, they will gain access to a new talent pool of more than 10.7 million people. This segment of the unemployment rate has remained relatively …
Read MoreAmazon owns just 3.4% of fulfillment centers it occupies
Amazon.com, the online retail giant behind the massive fulfillment center under construction in Bondurant, occupies more than 193 million square feet of warehouse space in North America, according to its recent annual report.
But the …
Read MoreA Closer Look: Jeremy Harrington
Jeremy Harrington enters Shift Interactive just as the company enters a new phase: focusing entirely on custom software for clients across industries such as agriculture, health care, insurance and finance. Shift, which has a team …
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