Amy Francetic steps down as CEO of Clean Energy Trust
Amy Francetic? will step down as CEO of the Clean Energy Trust by the end of the year, the organization's board of directors announced early Thursday. She will be succeeded...
Home > Reviews
All Stories
Public Good offers digital backbone to #ILGive campaign
Chicago startup Public Good is giving hundreds of nonprofits access to easy online fundraising this holiday season, when people open their wallets for good as well as for commerce. Public...
Readers respond: Do you want to be hugged at work?
Holiday parties and year-end departures offer plenty of occasions for hugging at work. But should we be doing it? Readers had a lot to say in response to a recent...
Lefkofsky lands back at Lightbank after stepping down as Groupon CEO
Eric Lefkofsky? is back in the role of managing partner at Chicago-based Lightbank, a venture capital firm he co-founded with Uptake CEO Brad Keywell?. Lefkofsky most recently served as CEO...
Expedia to cut more than 300 Orbitz staff in Chicago
Two months after acquiring Orbitz Worldwide, former rival Expedia will cut 326 employees — or about 40 percent — of the Chicago-based travel company's local workforce, the Puget Sound Business...
Tech startups disrupt another business custom: The use of last names
Tech companies have replaced the suit with the hoodie, and now they're coming after another business custom: The basic truth that we organize humans in order of last name. They...
Groupon CEO Rich Williams tries to ease concerns in blog post
New Groupon CEO Rich Williams attempted to clear up what he called misunderstandings about the company he took over two weeks ago in a blog post Thursday morning. He said...
Do you want to be hugged at work?
Dorri McWhorter ?, CEO of YWCA Metropolitan Chicago, thinks business would be better off if more people just hugged. The certified-public-accountant-turned-social-services-crusader fondly remembers "breaking down" chilly partners at her former...
Groupon shares hit all-time low
Groupon stock hit an all-time low of $2.54 late Friday before closing at $2.57. The previous low of $2.60 occurred almost exactly three years ago on Nov. 12, 2012. The...
MCA unveils new website: Love it or loathe it?
The Museum of Contemporary Art unveiled a new website Wednesday with stark black-and-white design and aggressively whimsical lettering, provoking the type of strong reaction modern art intends. Basecamp CEO Jason...