Business
Why Corporate Reputation Is Becoming a Machine-Readable Asset
As AI systems become the first stop for research on companies and executives, reputation is shifting from something people perceive to something machines retrieve.
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Business
A Wave of Retiring Owners Is Putting Main Street Up for Sale
Millions of small businesses are owned by people at or past retirement age, and most have no succession plan. The scramble to keep them alive is reshaping local economies.
The Service Contract Becomes the Product
For a widening set of manufacturers, the machine is now the customer acquisition cost and the maintenance agreement is the business. The shift is rewriting how these companies are valued.
Employee Ownership Gets a Second Look, From Sellers
Employee stock ownership plans spent decades as an ideological argument. They are being reconsidered as something plainer: a buyer who is already on site when no other buyer appears.
Nearshoring Moves From Conference Talk to Freight Manifest
After years of supply chain speeches, the physical evidence has arrived: factory construction, border logistics investment and trade flows reorganizing around proximity.
The Office Conversion Wave Finally Reaches the Spreadsheet Stage
After years of renderings and press releases, office-to-residential conversion is producing actual closings, and a repeatable financial template is emerging.
Inside the Professional Economy of the Podcast Guest
Booking agencies, preparation coaches and clip editors have turned the podcast interview into a supply chain, one that increasingly runs on retainers.