Business development

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.

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

“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.

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.

By working together, these two C-suite positions could create solutions for high-spend areas and optimize employee productivity at work.

The IBD network's AdvicePay integration could help the firm convert more retirement plan business into wealth management clients as it completes a record year for new assets.

There are three key components to this type of thinking, says Nelson Griswold: innovation, investment and implementation.

If today’s client isn’t intrigued with what an adviser is sharing on sites like LinkedIn, there is no reason to believe that they’ll be interested in person, says Wendy Keneipp.