Kudos go to Fattmerchant co-founders, Suneera Madhani and Sal Rehmetullah, whose downtown Orlando fintech firm has been recognized by both U.S. News & World Report and Forbes — the first awarded its top rating for…
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Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: REVISITING SEARS
While business literature has for over a decade concluded that, in the face of current competition for the retail dollar, Sears either needed a reset, or was best served liquidating its assets, paying off vendors…
Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: ROSEN’S PHILANTROPHY
Harris Rosen’s planned gift of $12 million to the University of Florida-led research collaboration combatting deadly brain cancer expands his record of targeted gifting. As an entrepreneur with an extensive portfolio of hotel properties, Rosen’s…
Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: Amazon Increases Wages
Amazon has an almost insatiable appetite for workers with a current workforce surpassing 250,000 employees in the United States alone. In addition, at a time in which unemployment is less than 3.9%, Amazon also plans…
Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: The New Economy
California Supreme Court’s ruling imposing employment status on independent contractors providing services made possible by the rapid expansion of digital platforms has no place in the state of Florida. Employment law has generally served the…
Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: First Green Bank
With a healthy dose of corporate social responsibility, First GREEN Bank always did beat to somewhat of a different drum than other financial institutions. With branches solar-powered and environmentally friendly, customers who received sustainability incentives,…
Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: AdventHealth Emerges
The Adventist Health Systems’ nationwide name change from individual monikers like central Florida’s Florida Hospital to AdventHealth is textbook perfect in having captured under one substantive brand the essence of its business operation, point of…
Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: ELON IN THE NEWS
Regulators scratching their heads as to whether Elon, notorious for his off-the-cuff scorching Twitter tirades, had violated securities laws in manipulating the public stock price of Tesla. At the same time, Florida’s SpaceX, Elon’s privately…
Retail revolution: Sears, Amazon and survival of the species
The demolition of the Sears Auto Store on an outparcel at Fashion Square, as well as the replacement of the Sears Department Store inside the mall, reflect in iconic terms not just the fundamental capitulation…
Growth comes at the Boundary Conditions
I was teaching the other day to an undergraduate class at Rollins on Rapid Enterprise Development and I found myself attempting to explain how important it is to create a culture of change. In the…