2014 Archives

Oregon is known for its green-minded citizens, and many workers are attracted to firms and organizations that practice green, not just pay lip service to it.

BY LINDA BAKER

Found in all cells, mitochondria are tube shape “organelles” that convert food into useful energy; when mitochondria fail, disease results.

Max Miller, an attorney with Tonkon Torp, and William Rutherford, founder and portfolio manager of Rutherford Investment Management, share their recent reads.

The data-crunching company PayScale predicts that the gender pay gap between men and women will continue to close as millennials comprise more of the active workforce.

BY JESSICA RIDGWAY

Becky Jones, co-owner and director of Eugene-based Seneca Family of Companies, runs the business with her two younger sisters, Kathy and Jody.

BY LINDA BAKER

New business models blur the line between for-profits and nonprofits.

BY LEE VAN DER VOO

The catch-share fisheries management system is designed to boost wild fish stocks. Will the new program leave fishermen adrift?

BY PETER BARNES

How omnipresent, seemingly limitless IT resources online will change business, culture and intelligence as we know it.

BY AMY MILSHTEIN

Siouxsie Jennett, president and CEO of Mambo Media, is in her downtown Portland office expounding on social media: the good, the bad and the ugly.

BY KIM MOORE

Wine consumption in the U.S. is growing, and wine-producing states are benefiting from the higher demand.