Kate Macarthur

Maybe you arrived on your first day of work and your desk wasn't clean or nobody greeted you. Management experts say that's a problem and that strong companies require frequent,...

Women are making strides in the bioscience and social science STEM disciplines, yet men still vastly outnumber women in computer science and engineering. But the University of Illinois at Chicago...

Do you love your job and feel that your efforts contribute to more than just a paycheck? If you're like 70 percent of American workers, you likely answered "no." Barry...

Company culture matters more than ever, as Amazon learned in August when a New York Times article portrayed it as a competitive and painful workplace. Laura Hamill is an organizational...

The Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce overhauled its Illinois Small Business Development Center and re-launched in July 2014 — the result of a survey of members who said they wanted a...

As food-makers spend millions to use more wholesome and natural ingredients, Westchester-based Ingredion has positioned itself to be a bigger supplier for them. The company this month acquired fruit and...

Since CME Group launched its startup investment arm CME Ventures 18 months ago, it has refined its investment focus and taken stakes in six companies. It flushed out one investment...

With financial markets increasingly dependent upon technology, CME Group Inc. is investing in tech startups. In May, the company, which owns the Chicago Board of Trade and the Chicago Mercantile...

When Liz Dolan wrote in June that gender bias forced her to quit her director seat at Quicksilver, she crystallized the problem that Judi Spaletto is tackling. Dolan wrote that...