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Not listed on our annual Biggest Deals list: the mega-merger between Southfield-based health system Beaumont Health and Grand Rapids' Spectrum Health. Why? Because the health systems are both organized as [...]

Byline: SHEENA HARRISON Return-to-work programs are getting greater consideration among employers for workers who are on leave because of disabilities that are not related to their job. Experts say workers [...]

Byline: JERRY GEISEL Large, well-known companies say they use captive insurers to reduce the cost of benefits for employees and retirees, to better analyze what drives claims and to increase [...]

Byline: KAREN PALLARITO Crafting a health benefits plan to cover employees who work internationally never has been more challenging. Today's global workforce is more diversified, including senior executives, mid-career employees [...]

Byline: ANNE FIELD Forgetting this year's harsh winter isn't possible for Anthony Aquilino, who heads Universe Auto Body Center and Universe Towing in the Bronx. Mr. Aquilino did such a [...]

Byline: RODD ZOLKOS There are often benefits to middle-market companies emulating their larger counterparts' risk management examples. 'There is a basic risk management process, methodology that has been around for [...]

Byline: Paul Gillin IF YOUR CONTENT marketing efforts are foundering because of a lack of material, pay a visit to your local supermarket and pick up a copy of Cosmopolitan, [...]

Byline: SHERRI WELCH Corporate holiday parties are back, but many are on a budget. And many companies are booking them at the last minute, only after finding money left in [...]

Byline: Amanda Fung LinkedIn, the popular social network for business professionals, is expanding its office in the Empire State Building. The Mountain View, Calif.-based company has signed a 10-year lease [...]

Byline: MIKE TSIKOUDAKIS Enterprise risk management is gaining ground with senior management of organizations as risk managers and ERM champions establish ways to measure its value. 'Historically with any sort [...]

Byline: RODD ZOLKOS For risk managers whose careers have focused on managing the risks of traditional hazards, risk management on the financial side of their organizations might sometimes seem distant [...]

A REPORT issued by the World Economic Forum should boost the efforts of risk managers who are trying to implement an enterprise risk management process in their organizations. As we [...]

Byline: JEFF CASALE The 2008 financial crisis highlighted the importance of enterprise risk management, but some companies still are grappling with ways to apply ERM to their business practices, according [...]

StageTwoStrategies is a weekly feature that analyzes a recent business decision by a second-stage company. These companies are led by growth-focused entrepreneurs with market-ready products or services. They generally have [...]

Intellectual-property law is not the field of rampant growth it was just a few years ago, but local firms still held steady or made incremental gains through foreign markets, universities [...]

The debate over the fate of one of the nation's shortest interstates, the 1.3-mile Sheridan Expressway, has become a long-running battle in the Bronx, pitting local companies against area residents. [...]

The majority of Southeast Michigan businesses are taking steps toward green business practices, with their actions most often driven by the ability to save money, according to a survey commissioned [...]

ABOUT THIS SECTION FOR THE RECORD is a weekly listing of information from the public record that can help businesspeople find opportunities in the New York area by providing leads [...]

* Take a hard look at your finances. Get a grip on your cash-flow situation and put a realistic forecasting system in place, so you know how much money you [...]

Byline: MICHAEL BRADFORD Enterprise risk management is anything but a fix-it-and-forget-it approach to mitigating risk. Four risk managers who have developed and managed ERM programs for several years say they [...]

Byline: Rebecca Vesely A midsize paper-supply company offers three extra vacation days to employees at whichever of its branches collectively loses the most weight in seven weeks. Workers at one [...]

Our video camera has been busy this week. In case you missed it, we spent a good bit of time at Parmenter's Northville Cider Mill. Co-owner Rob Nelson said he [...]

You've heard of the A-Team? Now meet the Green Team. Local companies are increasingly following the advice of specialized staff members about how to adopt sustainable business practices. Besides easing [...]

I'm usually not one to encourage the federal government to get involved with our lives any more than it is already. But it just gets my dander up when I [...]

Byline: jean ende The job of heading a brand-new business improvement district focusing on the downtown Flushing transit hub required a very special person. After toiling for months to set [...]

Even if you're not a tax pro, experts on the Michigan Business Tax say the new tax structure boils down to one simple aspect - lower taxes for more small [...]

54. Royal Oak Downtown Royal Oak offers arguably more nightlife and restaurant choices in one walkable location than anywhere else in the Detroit area. Restaurants, outdoor cafes, clubs, coffee bars, [...]

MARKETING RISK Most organizations have a chief marketing officer who manages risk factors related to entering markets, finding customers/clients, and pricing and selling goods or services. Examples of exposures include: [...]

Byline: GLORIA GONZALEZ Canadian employers need to take several important risk management steps to protect themselves against a possible pandemic, including a complete audit of their business operations to identify [...]

You know the adage: Don't waste your time preaching to the choir. Well, I think we should spend more time preaching to the converted. Just in case. I'm talking about [...]

Byline: Karen J. Bannan It's a given that the Web makes it easier to take your business global. Why, then, according to JupiterResearch senior analyst W. Gregory Dowling, do many [...]

There's a new generation of workers emerging that could force employers to change how they operate. Raised alongside computers, video games and cell phones, the members of the 'millennial generation'' [...]

Byline: Amanda Fung Seven years ago, companies and their ad agencies were spending barely 1% of their marketing budgets on the Internet. But that didn't stop IBM media executive Marianne [...]

HONOLULU-The vast majority of technology firms, including those in Japan, often equate risk taking with innovation and view risk management as 'process heavy'' and potentially decelerating to their business, says [...]

More than two dozen Southeast Michigan firms have been recognized as part of the 50 Michigan Companies to Watch by the Edward Lowe Foundation, an organization based in Cassopolis that [...]

Companies searching for relief from growing health care costs are spurring growth for Southeast Michigan's health coaches. A cross between a motivational booster, health assessor and adviser, health coaches work [...]

I don't know how long the glow of success from the Super Bowl will last, but one thing is for sure: During the months leading up to Feb. 5, everyone [...]

Byline: Lindsay Chappell Analysts at J.D. Power and Associates tried not to use the phrase 'winning team'' to describe the performance of some import brands during the marketing firm's International [...]

When Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick took the podium at his second inauguration on Thursday, he called for all metro Detroiters to take pride in the region's largest city and work together [...]

Q: Why should risk managers care about the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and the compliance efforts of their companies? A: As anyone who reads the trade publications knows, there exists no shortage [...]

Byline: REGIS COCCIA CHICAGO-Effective analysis and management of enterprise risks requires risk managers to look beyond apparently random data and apply real-world experiences, a panel of experts suggested. 'Enterprise risk [...]

Byline: ROBERTO CENICEROS Employers in California and Texas are banking on doctor networks to curb the overutilization of medical treatments in their workers compensation systems, with additional efforts expected to [...]

Eight New York area companies are preparing to go public as the market for initial public offerings heats up. So far this year, 24 IPO deals have been done nationally, [...]

The effects of the natural disaster in Southeast Asia are expected to reach as far as New York City in shortages of plywood, disruptions in apparel shipments and cancellations of [...]

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Despite a waning legislative session, Gov. Jennifer Granholm still wants to see action on business-tax restructuring. 'The governor's going to propose it. It will be offered to lawmakers ... and [...]

Like a lot of businesspeople, Tom Zimmerman isn't a fan of Michigan's single-business tax. The second-generation executive in family-owned Spectrum Automation Co. doesn't like having to pay the tax in [...]

The following businesses filed for Chapter 7 protection in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Detroit the week of Sept. 3-9. Chapter 7 involves total liquidation. AHE Electrical Supply Co., 2600 22nd [...]

Crainsny.com features an array of resources to help entrepreneurs. Read about the small business award winners online, under 'Small Business.'' The 'Growing a Business Guide'' lists organizations that offer everything [...]

There was no terrorist attack last week in Boston. Protests were on the tame side. And Bostonians who did drive into the city sailed down I-93, because most people had [...]