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At a time of enormous change and uncertainty for the health care industry, the San Fernando Valley region is home to many who are embracing the challenges boldly with new [...]

Irwin Kellner, Chemical Bank's chief economist, used to appear regularly on Sonny Bloch's radio program, aired daily on WOR-AM. 'I figured, it was on a major station - it's got [...]

He has five lifetime achievement awards and countless honors and distinctions. He launched 17 companies, sold nine for almost $8 billion and took two public. He has funded research at [...]

GROWTH: Firms grow revenues, but most aren't hiring new workers. The fastest-growing private companies in the San Fernando Valley region grew an average of 85.6 percent in the last three [...]

New York businesses say, 'We've been exploited; forget stranded costs; offer us pricing deals' Electricity adds $600 to Jerrold Mann's $3,000 monthly rent at his small physical therapy practice in [...]

Proudfoot consulting likes to thank its clients in a big way. So last November, the South Florida firm spent $110,000 to bring its 40 top customers to New York for [...]

When the gourmet Housewares Show moved from San Francisco to Las Vegas last year, Jennifer Baron was up in arms. 'All I could think of was, `Aach. For God's sake. [...]

When kpmg struck a deal last month to avoid criminal prosecution over its fraudulent tax shelters, it did more than rat out its top tax partners and pay a hefty [...]

manufacturing in New York City is in deep trouble, and the all-too-common experience of Bruno Holst is a good reason why. In his first three years in operation, the owner [...]

David lyons may be in his 70s, but the retired executive from Rockefeller University never once thinks of taking a taxi or driving his car to meetings in Manhattan. He [...]

David bauer is one of those star high school students who could have his pick of any college. The winner of the 2005 Intel Science Talent Search, better known as [...]

Byline: Judy Temes With million-dollar explosive-detection machines, more police, miles of new fencing and Jersey barriers blocking terminal doors, New York's three major commercial airports seem ready for the worst. [...]

One hundred years ago, city leaders faced a daunting task: how to move unprecedented numbers of people around their rapidly growing city. They took up the challenge and constructed, in [...]

After years of watching new competitors crimp his sales growth, Charles McCorkell decided the time had come for radical action to launch a counterattack. The owner of Bicycle Habitat in [...]

For years, when supermarket chain Gristede's wanted to sample the newest ethnic products, its buyers had to trudge to at least three separate food shows: Kosherfest, Comida Latina and the [...]

Before eva brown cramer spent a dime on the new Downstate Biotechnology Incubator in Brooklyn, she spent months visiting other incubators around the state. What she found was inspiring but [...]

Here is an irony if ever there was one. If Pennsylvania Station becomes Daniel Patrick Moynihan Station, it will be due in part to the Republican National Convention. The idea [...]

Mayor michael bloomberg didn't have to look far to find the chief fund-raiser to bring in the $64 million needed to host the Republican National Convention. Lewis Eisenberg was a [...]

From the 1,000 new lightbulbs in the spruced-up Farley Post Office to its 5,000 yards of carpeting and 150 refurbished toilets-plus 13,000 Broadway tickets-New York is planning one heck of [...]

Real estate broker Jeffrey Dunne hadn't seen buyers reduce their offering bids on a commercial property in years-until now. A sudden jump in long-term interest rates in recent weeks, and [...]

Over the last dozen years, Randall Hensley's branding business has had its exuberant ups and its life-threatening downs. What it no longer has is the burden of carrying the cost [...]

At juva on east 56th street, the music is new age, the atmosphere is subdued and the smell of scented candles hangs heavy in the air. But this is no [...]

Two years ago, harlem's north general hospital was on the financial brink, losing more than $20 million that year. Today, the 200-bed institution is a survivor; revenues are up and [...]

The container store, manhattan's newest big-box retailer, has solutions to cramped city living-nifty closet organizers, stainless steel garbage cans and plastic storage boxes by the dozen. But try getting it [...]

When chris Mancini tells people she runs a Web site called Captive.com for a living, people give her funny looks. 'Don't worry,'' she reassures them with a laugh. 'It has [...]

Byline: judy temes Brokers looking for signs that New York's anemic real estate market is on the mend may have found one when the city's oldest law firm, Cadwalader Wickersham [...]

This year, krasdale foods is paying $3 million to ensure that its 600 workers have health care benefits. That's 25% more than the White Plains-based company paid last year, but [...]

When the dot-com startup FrontLine Capital Group went belly-up last summer, it was a stroke of luck for New York University. FrontLine's three floors in the landmarked Woolworth Building are [...]

City officials say they intend to fight hard to prevent the 75-year-old Swingline staple factory from closing. But workers at the plant on Skillman Avenue in Long Island City, and [...]

In an industry of giants, Forest Laboratories Inc. has always managed to please investors with steady growth, selling pharmaceuticals that the big boys dismissed as too measly. Until this year, [...]

The $925 million sale of Canoga Park-based One Lambda will allow the leading transplant diagnostics company to expand into emerging markets such as China and Brazil, where organ transplantation is [...]

When the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced in March that one in 88 children today have autism, many were dismayed. In the media firestorm that ensued, many disputed [...]

Days after the Supreme Court affirmed most elements of the Affordable Care Act, four Valley area health care providers announced deals to merge or affiliate, confirming that the changes ushered [...]

Advanced Bionics is relocating its manufacturing facility to Valencia and expanding its workforce as its products gain traction and sales grow nearly 50 percent. The company that makes cochlear implants--devices [...]

MinuteClinic, the retail medical clinic owned by CVS Caremark Corp., recently opened a new store in Sherman Oaks. But following years of rapid expansion, this single store opening calls attention [...]

A new statewide effort to enroll the state's poorest and sickest residents in managed care is expected to save California taxpayers and the health care system nearly $1 billion a [...]

Fifteen months after the new Palmdale Regional Medical Center opened its doors with great anticipation to quickly expand to 239 beds, large parts of the new hospital remain empty and [...]

After declining for nine years, workers' compensation insurance rates are rising again, fueled by a combination of factors including rapidly rising medical costs. The hikes are hitting Valley companies just [...]

As ocean cruise lines look to put a disastrous few months behind them, river cruising is fast becoming America's new pastime. That's accelerating growth at the three largest river cruising [...]

Dr. Jeffrey London's office looks directly out on West Hills Hospital and Medical Center. But since he and his partners sold their 14-provider medical practice, the name on the door [...]

Joey Herrick loves dogs. He has seven and five of them sleep in his bed. He's also a visionary and marketing wiz. Twenty four years ago--as a drummer on a [...]

If the past is any indication of the future, Universal Studios--and the tourism industry that depends on it--can expect a thrilling summer with the opening next month of 'Transformers: The [...]

GROWTH: Acquisition makes On Assignment second-largest in IT. Staffing firm On Assignment Inc. grew more than 30 percent in 2011, but that's nothing compared to what its latest move will [...]

HEALTH: Some question if change was self-serving. Prime Healthcare Services Inc., the for-profit hospital system that's been the subject of multiple federal and state investigations, has donated Sherman Oaks Hospital [...]

From a storefront school in downtown Los Angeles offering instruction in bookkeeping and penmanship, Woodbury University has grown into a four-year college with strong academic credentials in disciplines like business, [...]