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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Executives Talk About What it Means and Why it’s Important

Jan 28, 2022 04:36PM ● By Donna Isbell Walker

Q. What has influenced your thinking about DEI and motivated you to get involved in being an advocate for change?

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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is a Key Business Strategy in an Ever-Evolving Business World

Jan 28, 2022 03:47PM ● By Donna Isbell Walker

Lee Gill fondly remembers his college days at University of Michigan, where he and his friends would fiercely debate the issues of the day. Gill, who hailed from South Bend, Ind., was thrilled to hear unfamiliar perspectives from people of different backgrounds and cultures. He enjoyed having his views challenged and looking at the world from a different vantage point than the one he’d grown up with in Indiana.

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Ten at the Top Roundtable

Jan 28, 2022 03:26PM ● By Donna Isbell Walker

Q. Where new development goes is often at the discretion of the land owners (with some input from local governments). What can be done to ensure that we do not have sprawling growth, but instead build new residential and commercial developments in appropriate locations that will not tax our physical infrastructure?

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BMW of North America Reports Q4 2021, Full Year 2021 U.S. Sales Results

Jan 28, 2022 10:45AM ● By David Dykes

BMW of North America reported Q4 2021 and full year 2021 sales results for the BMW and MINI brands in the U.S., with BMW brand sales increasing 20.8 percent for the year.

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South Carolina’s Rates of Infant Mortality, Preterm Birth Earn State an F Rating from March of Dimes

Jan 27, 2022 05:28PM ● By Liv Osby

Julia Clardy was sharing a spaghetti dinner with her husband Jason one evening in late April 2019 when she began to feel some pain. At 23 weeks pregnant, she was just over half way to her due date. But the signs were unmistakable. She was in labor.

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Inclusion Uncomplicated: Four Strategies to Make DEI Practical

Jan 27, 2022 04:46PM ● By Dr. Nika White

Every day, we hear that the work of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) is complicated. Whether from businesses, employees, society in general, or the practitioners themselves. And the truth is — yes — DEI can be complicated because the issues of DEI are complex.

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Federal Marketplace Offers Help as Health Insurance Costs Rise

Jan 27, 2022 04:15PM ● By Frank Knapp Jr.

Small business owners and workers across South Carolina have found good news on affordable health insurance through the federal Health Insurance Marketplace, where plans from private insurance companies could be obtained with premiums based primarily on income but not on one’s health status.

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South Carolina Needs More ‘Civic Leadership’

Jan 27, 2022 03:13PM ● By Jason Zacher

Our short-term, social media and meme-based political dialogue is destroying a generation of leaders and is dragging down our communities.

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Complete Client Transparency and Why It Matters To You

Jan 27, 2022 01:28PM ● By Joan Herlong

In my almost 30 years of listing and selling in the Upstate, I have never seen a housing market quite like this one, and there are no real signs of it changing in the coming 12 months.

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SC Department of Education Partners With Mental Health America to Help Kids Struggling with Pandemic Challenges

Jan 27, 2022 01:03PM ● By David Dykes

Covid-19 has been a terrible strain for many families, including children, parents, health care workers, educators, students, child care workers, and so many others.

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How Foundations Can Help Shape A More Equitable Future

Dec 23, 2021 03:23PM ● By Minor M. Shaw

Throughout history, private foundations have played an integral role in helping shape philanthropic investments and in leading change, both social change and otherwise. Private foundations are generally funded by individual families or corporations. They differ in their focus, but most are created to serve the common good through grantmaking. Foundations are catalysts for philanthropic investments at the local, state, national, and international levels.

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Wyche Firm at 100: History of Legal, Community Leadership

Dec 23, 2021 02:55PM ● By Kevin Dietrich

Wyche P.A. celebrates its 100th anniversary this year, but the well-known Greenville law firm looks nothing like the entity that began operations just after World War I. Some of the practice areas the firm is known for today, such as venture capital, renewable energy development, and disability rights, were unknown in 1921. Others, such as antitrust and trade regulation, product liability, and securities and corporate finance, were far less complex.

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Support Group Helps Patients With Lingering Effects of ‘Long Covid’

Dec 23, 2021 02:51PM ● By Liv Osby

Fred Wood tested positive for Covid a year ago and suffered extreme fatigue at the time. The worst was to come a few months later. Suddenly, he began to notice intense muscle weakness. Then came severe shortness of breath.

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Security companies expand reach to combat ever-evolving cyberattacks

Dec 23, 2021 02:48PM ● By Kevin Dietrich

Nearly a decade after the South Carolina Department of Revenue was bushwhacked by the worst data breach in state history, cybersecurity efforts across private and public sectors are greatly improved. That’s critical, as hackers have continued to up their game as well.

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Ten at the Top Roundtable Q&A How nonprofit foundations help and shape the Upstate

Dec 23, 2021 12:49PM ● By Donna Isbell Walker

Philanthropy has deep roots in South Carolina, and in the Upstate in particular. The region’s many nonprofit foundations focus on giving back to the community in countless ways, from supporting the arts to helping feed hungry children.

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Looking at Greenville’s Hispanic-owned businesses

Dec 23, 2021 12:30PM ● By Donna Isbell Walker

Between December 2020 and November 2021, we profiled a Hispanic-owned business each month. They ranged from coffee shops and bakeries to supermarkets and an insurance agency. Here’s a brief look at each of the businesses we spotlighted.

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Hispanic Alliance Partnership helped to showcase Hispanic-owned businesses and their contributions to Greenville’s economy

Dec 23, 2021 12:26PM ● By Adele Mendoza

Over the past year, Hispanic Alliance and Greenville Business Magazine embarked on a mission to highlight the contributions of Hispanic business owners and entrepreneurs to our community. We are proud of this partnership to promote diversity, inclusion, and awareness in the community.

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South Carolina Needs New Models for Skills Training

Dec 23, 2021 12:24PM ● By Dr. Susan Emmerich

As the U.S. emerges from the pandemic, discussions are focused on the future of work and learning. Rapid deployment of remote technologies during Covid-19 transformed our understanding of where and how these collaborative activities can happen.

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Your Next Employees Are Your New Marketing Audience

Dec 23, 2021 12:21PM ● By Allison Mertens

Recruiting: It’s the new marketing. French writer Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr wrote, “plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose”: The more things change, the more things stay the same. That concept can be applied to business, too. Since the dawn of time, business has been based on making money by producing or buying and selling services.

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Leveling Up: How to Plan For Business Growth

Dec 23, 2021 12:17PM ● By Paul Ryll

The pandemic continues to transform how we run our businesses while propelling us into the future at an incredible rate as it relates to business transformation. The past 21 months have provided challenges we never would have anticipated prior to March 2020, and today, who we are as business owners has changed drastically.

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Pandemic Keeping Workers on the Sidelines. What Are the Barriers to Getting Them Back to Work?

Dec 23, 2021 11:58AM ● By Tom Barkin

This year, we’ve seen that shortages in labor supply can constrain economic growth. As lockdowns lifted, consumer demand picked up quickly. Job openings hit all-time records. But employers in many sectors were unable to staff to meet demand. Shockingly, that meant amid this strong recovery, we saw firms cutting hours and turning down business.

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CEOs of fastest-growing companies share marketing and hiring strategies

Nov 10, 2021 12:13PM ● By Donna Isbell Walker

For South Carolina’s fastest-growing companies, marketing and hiring strategies have been key to generating the growth that put them on this list. CEOs of some of those companies share their best advice for up-and-coming business owners and would-be entrepreneurs who are looking to make their own mark on the South Carolina corporate landscape.

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Q&A Roundtable Advice for entrepreneurs from CEOs of fastest-growing companies

Nov 10, 2021 12:10PM ● By Kevin Dietrich

Businesses that make it into the list of the fastest-growing companies in South Carolina have gotten there through hard work and determination. They also have learned a few lessons along the way, lessons that could offer insights to other business owners. We asked our winning companies to share their advice to other business owners and entrepreneurs. Here’s what some of them had to say.

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