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There’s no place in Pittsburgh like downtown. Spearheading the revitalization of the city as a whole, the city’s central hub has become home to art, food and culture. Where else can you leave work, eat at a nationally recognized restaurant and then visit a night market with free music?

A recent PA Commonwealth Court decision is prompting nonprofit board members to revisit bylaws regarding the removal of directors.

Many companies are looking at different ways to market their business, product or service. In the past, hiring a marketer or communicator was sufficient. Today, considering how people consume information and make purchasing decisions, those positions have morphed into something new, with titles and skills to match.

There are plenty of things people love to hate about meetings: They’re too long and too frequent; certain people dominate the conversation and other people don’t pay attention; and nothing gets done. Take charge of your next meeting by following these steps:

The Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry has submitted proposed revisions for salaried workers who are exempt from overtime pay.

What is brand journalism and why should you care as a business leader?

With over 20 years of experience in sales as well as ministry leadership experience, Lisa Slayton brings a unique set of capabilities to the Pittsburgh Leadership Foundation (PLF).

In today’s competitive workforce, it’s important to create an appealing work environment for prospective and current employees. Before making the decision of whether or not to apply for, accept or leave a job, individuals consider job perks like benefits, hours, wages and culture. This is especially important to young professionals and millennials.

How many times have you clicked or read an email just to get that unread number to zero? You just wasted a microdecision on opening an email, reading it, and not doing anything with it.

A 2018 amendment to the Fair Labor Standards Act has restaurants re-evaluating their tipping practices. The change states, “an employer may not keep tips received by its employees … including allowing managers or supervisors to keep any portion of employees’ tips … ’’

PR measurement is evolving for the better as a result of the power of social media and the emergence of sophisticated measurement tools.

It’s easy to make conference calls from almost anywhere. But while they’re convenient, conference calls aren’t the best option for building a relationship.

Now more than ever, digital marketing is changing the way we communicate. Social media helps brands connect with target audiences with the click of a button.

How each piece of a company’s visual identity works together to communicate the brand’s essence is important. Good graphic designers don’t begin concepting in isolation.

As you peruse this issue of The Pittsburgh 100, may I ask you to make one more click? When you do, you’ll be greeted by our new website. We’re very proud of it and we hope you like it too.

In most states, there are no outright prohibitions on short-term leases. However, homeowners offering properties through sites like Airbnb and VRBO may have to contend with local zoning regulations.

Being late isn’t fashionable anymore (if it ever was). Habitual tardiness says a lot about you, none of it good.

Project: Time Off discovered half of Americans don’t use their vacation time.

Accurate financial information is critical to the successful operation of any business venture. Your analysis of such data should relate not only to your enterprise, but also to that of your customers and vendors.

While the tools of technology make even shorter bursts of communication possible (think Twitter), information overload has made us even hungrier than ever for a strong, connected story.

Your entire career could change with one introduction at a networking event.

Do you have a hard time concentrating on a task for any length of time and never get into deep work mode? Do you get lost in social media or email and neglect your important priorities?

In a recent court case, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that post-grant review of patents by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) is constitutional, but the board must decide the legitimacy of every challenged claim during a PTAB proceeding. Prior to this decision, it was common for PTAB to review some, but not all claims.

HubSpot’s 2018 State of Inbound report found that 63% of companies view generating traffic and leads as their biggest marketing challenge. Traditional advertising is less effective today, and newsrooms are shrinking by the day.

Forming audit committees is becoming more common in the nonprofit sector, offering an unbiased outlet to monitor an organization’s finances. Here are three things to consider when building an audit committee:

A New Zealand company is conducting a six-week trial testing four-day work weeks. For those of us needing to be productive over five days, here are facts to consider:

No organization is perfect. And many headlines are about things gone bad – faulty products, scandals, bankruptcies, accidents in the workplace. Such stories, when they include false or incorrect information, can quickly damage a company’s reputation. What should you do if it happens to you?

A recent Columbia University experiment concluded that men value intelligence and ambition in their female counterparts – up to a certain point.

Universities around the world are offering their courses online without or partially without charge. Over the past five years, almost 800 universities have created more than 8,000 of these massive open online courses (MOOCs). Universities with offerings include Stanford, Duke, Rice and Harvard, to name a few.

As a proud dad, I enjoy confirming to friends that both of our daughters are “taxpaying citizens.” In other words, they are financially self-sufficient, independent of the First Bank of Dad.