Growth strategies

The better you know the target audience, the better you can target your message and services, and the more helpful and valuable you can be as an adviser.

Lior Rachmany, founder and CEO of Dumbo Moving and Storage NYC, breaks down how his small business supports causes like women's rights, children's education and Black Lives Matter.

Lending firm Clarify Capital ranked every state in the U.S. based on its ability to support women-owned businesses.

A new survey found that women and minorities are fueling the entrepreneurial boom since the pandemic.

As national houses sail downstream after smaller groups, collaborative independents are swimming upstream to take larger groups from bigger shops.

Some of the COVID-era entrepreneurship may have been born of necessity, as people who lost their job in the initial wave of lockdowns set up their own businesses in an effort to make ends meet.

Only about a third of the workday is spent doing what we were actually hired to do, and that hasn’t changed much since 2019.

Employers are experimenting with internal job fairs, a new definition of flexibility and more in our top stories from this week.

Employees miss the benefits of traveling for work and look forward to a return to pre-COVID norms.

Employers need to rethink their hiring strategies if they want to be competitive and attract new hires.

The bank is planning to hire more than 500 advisers in the years ahead.

The company announced $100 million through 2025 to support small businesses and community development projects in diverse communities.

With remote work and virtual recruiting the new norm, workplace experts weigh in on how employers need to be adapting as they look to rebuild their workplace in 2021.

“If we need to cut some profit to be able to make sure that people can relax and take a deep breath and be there for their kids and get through this pandemic together, then that’s what we’re going to do," says Melissa Wirt, founder of Latched Mama.

The pandemic has challenged employers to identify their core values and mission to keep employees engaged.

COVID-19 has created significant disruptions in all our lives, but we don’t have to succumb to the pressures of combining our work habits with our home life.

The biggest firms have seen smaller stock market declines, on average, than smaller ones have.

Business will have to make virtual engagement central to their strategy. The firms that get a head start with video now are the ones who will thrive tomorrow.

Managers can project gratitude and resilience using positive psychology methods, which will help employees weather the challenges of coronavirus and other workplace adjustments.

FullContact awards their employees an annual bonus on the condition they don’t look at work emails while on vacation.