How will business trends affect Peoria’s largest employers? No one has a crystal ball that’s 100 percent exact. However, Bradley University’s Turner Center for Entrepreneurship has taken a long look toward the horizon. With the area’s top employers in mind, the Turner Center — part of the school’s Foster College of Business Administration — took […]

Apple Inc. (AAPL) has made it official: it has moved on from Steve Jobs (SJ). SJ was against stock buybacks. Apple has now dramatically announced that it is launching the largest one in history, tens of billions of dollars worth over the next few years. Not only that, for tax reasons it’s going to borrow […]

Businesses that have made the move to the West Valley spoke to an enthusiastic crowd last week at the annual economic development summit sponsored by WESTMARC (Western Maricopa Coalition). Those businesses that talked about why they chose the West Valley represented the aerospace and defense industry, education, health care, manufacturing and renewable/clean technologies. Earl Wiggins, […]

“For every 23,000 lawyers, there is one engineer.” The statement, shared at the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals’ (CSCMP) Chicago Roundtable last month, alone today is staggering, given the number of organizations who worked over the past decade to improve the manufacturing economy. That’s not to say that manufacturing has not come a […]