Consider the source

If trust and credibility have been earned through getting the job done, employees will follow the leader.

Before you leap…

…take the time to understand the problem you are solving. Are you thinking about jumping out of the corporate ship and into the sea of entrepreneurship? For some, this leap could look inviting, and for others hazardous, but either way, there are some basic things you can do now to test the waters. The good […]

Students driven to maximize product potential at CWRU competition

Amanda Noonan learned quite a bit about what is possible in the product development space through her participation in the Saint-Gobain Student Design Competition, held annually in partnership with Case Western Reserve University. Noonan and her teammates on the PulseOx team won the competition by creating a device to obtain reliable blood-oxygen level measurements of […]

Due diligence can really pay off for companies entering a new market

Companies looking to expand into a new market typically have conducted an initial thorough round of internal research and due diligence into what a particular market has to offer, says George J. Pofok, CCIM, SIOR, senior vice president at Cushman & Wakefield/CRESCO Real Estate. The next step is finding the right location within the market to open up for business.

Competition offers lessons to future entrepreneurs

Doug Heneghan is hopeful that participants in the Saint-Gobain Student Design Competition held in partnership with Case Western Reserve University will be inspired to achieve entrepreneurial greatness. “Hopefully, they put this experience on their resume,” says Heneghan, who worked with the PulseOx team that was selected out of nine finalists as the winner of the […]

Employers must make a compelling case to land IT talent

Supply and demand stands out as the biggest challenge that companies face in securing talent that is capable of working on their IT systems, says Grant A. Derner, executive vice president at Nesco Resource. A recent report drafted by Nesco found that while there are 33,000 candidates in the IT workforce in the Cleveland area and more than 2,700 open jobs in the sector, there are only 18 candidates per job.