Spooner Medical Administrators, Inc.’s Joe Spooner explains what businesses should know about open enrollment and the factors to consider when choosing an MCO.
How to best position your company to secure a line of credit from your bank. Insight from John Holland of Consumers National Bank.
Many people who hire hourly-fee lawyers don’t realize that they can reduce their future legal bills by, effectively, becoming part of their own legal team. Semanoff Ormsby Greenberg & Torchia, LLC’s William J. Maffucci explains.
Liability insurance is an important component of risk management for most businesses, but insurance policies are often overlooked in the sale of a business. Brouse McDowell’s Keven Drummond Eiber explains the importance of preserving valuable insurance assets.
Service is an obvious factor when considering a managed care organization, but the financial impact of the MCO should drive the decision. Quinn Guist, president of CompManagement Health Systems, explains.
Cushman & Wakefield/CRESCO Real Estate’s Joseph V. Barna outlines the keys to making a more effective real estate decision when the time comes to consider whether your current space can or can’t meet your company’s needs.
For privately held enterprises, there are more flexible advisory boards that are not governed by regulations and are assembled to assist management in navigating the road to success.
We should all think about the impact mentors have had on our lives and ask what we can do to provide the same support to the next generation of leaders.
One of the shrewdest steps John D. Rockefeller conducted, historians say, was the Cleveland Massacre of 1872. In less than six weeks’ time, he acquired 22 of his 26 Cleveland oil refinery competitors. The business move worked for Rockefeller, the subject of this month’s Uniquely Cleveland, and gave his Standard Oil Co. a corner on the market. By 1878 Standard Oil was refining 90 percent of the oil in the U.S.
Standard Oil grew to be a behemoth and by 1911 was broken into 34 companies when the U.S. Supreme Court found it violated the Sherman Antitrust Act.
But what wasn’t so shrewd in today’s terms was this: of all that oil, not a drop was for company culture.
Registered foreign-born Americans are more than 10 percent of the electorate. Perception of persecution in the U.S. has direct effect on the ballot box.
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