FedEx’s new 447,000-square-foot shipping facility in Troutdale is humming with activity as the company prepares for the holiday madness. Local managers have hired part time and full time workers and employment at the facility is up to 550 jobs and growing.
I just had a client ask about how to best handle a nagging problem — his people were loose and lax about keeping internal promises and hitting internal deadlines. It raises a question: How can you handle broken promises, with high integrity?
Portland celebrated this week the second round of its CivicApps project, an open source design contest for smart phone applications using Portland data sets to address civic issues.
Three Oregon businesses described their success stories at the Kruse Way Economic Forum, and the common message was that to prosper in this economy you have to be able to adapt.
Once the busiest exporter of lumber in the world, the International Port of Coos Bay no longer booms with business, and neither does the area around it. Now the Southwestern coastal area is exploring ways to trade big timber for small businesses generating income from tourism.
Economist Bill Conerly sees the New Cyclicality hitting banking along with the rest of the business community. What does this mean to banks? Greater loan losses, more balance sheet variability, and some human resource challenges.
Portland Fashion Week kicked off Wednesday night with an Installation Show featuring local artists and designers. The show brands itself as “the world’s only comprehensively eco-conscious production of fashion week.”
Today, our On The Scene blog goes behind the scenes at the 100 Best Nonprofits to Work For in Oregon event.
Athletic apparel company Lululemon’s marketing strategy includes cupcakes, camp outs, dances and running clubs.
Economist Mark Thoma, professor of economics at the University of Oregon, muses on the affects of health care changes, including mandated coverage.