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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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A Grounded Theory Analysis On The Impact of Early-life Development on the Success of South Carolina Executives

Nov 10, 2021 11:59AM ● By Saanvi Merchant

The Covid-19 pandemic has increased the amount of time an individual spends at home and invoked harsh economic conditions leading to a surge of start-up businesses and shifts in executive-level positions. South Carolina has not been immune to these shifts.

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Long Road Paved Way to Success

Nov 10, 2021 11:46AM ● By Liv Osby

Smith Heavner took the long road from the bottom third of his high school class to a Ph.D., even flunking out of nursing school along the way. But today he is scientific director of the CURE Drug Repurposing Collaboratory, a public-private partnership with the FDA and the National Institutes of Health.

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Racial Equity and Mobility Commission Seeks to Improve Disparities in Greenville County

Nov 10, 2021 11:38AM ● By Carlos Phillips

We’re often reminded about the need to improve vital infrastructure at the local, state, and national levels. Our roads need repair, bridges require rebuilding, broadband expanded to rural and underserved areas, transit optimized, and mobility reimagined, and the list goes on.

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Doors are opening to new opportunities in Cherokee County

Nov 10, 2021 11:27AM ● By John C. Stevenson

Cherokee County might not be the first place in South Carolina an entrepreneur would think to call home for a new business, but the county chamber’s executive director makes the case that Cherokee County is open and ready to support new businesses.

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Spartanburg Group Focused On Aiding Micro-Entrepreneurs

Nov 10, 2021 11:06AM ● By John C. Stevenson

A group in Spartanburg is working with entrepreneurs to help bring new businesses and business opportunities to underdeveloped communities in and around the city. Start:ME Spartanburg is an entrepreneur accelerator program that focuses on helping small startups gain a foothold in the Northside community. It is a collaborative effort between USC Upstate and the Northside Development Group that began in 2016 and is based on a program begun in Atlanta.

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Focus on the Future. Making Connections, Area agencies offer many ways to help entrepreneurs tap into local resources

Nov 10, 2021 10:46AM ● By John C. Stevenson

An interconnected ecosystem that permeates the state’s 10 northwestern counties and beyond stands ready to help budding entrepreneurs connect with the wide array of resources they need to turn their good ideas into success stories. The business ecosystem comprises private nonprofits, local, regional and statewide government agencies, area colleges, universities and technical schools, and a host of others, all working together to support both new and existing businesses in the region.

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MUSC Project: Preventing Risk of Disease

Nov 10, 2021 10:27AM ● By Liv Osby

If your doctor knew your risk for colon cancer or heart disease years before the disease developed, he or she could help you take steps to prevent it. And by collecting DNA samples from thousands of South Carolinians, the Medical University of South Carolina is embarking on a project which hopes to do just that.

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