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Where is this shrimp from? Now you’ll know.
The next time you sit down to a shrimp po-boy or some crawfish étouffée in a Louisiana restaurant, you have the right to know if the seafood you’re eating is imported. Louisiana House Bill...
Baton Rouge companies using virtual reality to train workforce
Imagine the immense responsibility on the shoulders of an 800-ton crane operator, installing two large, 150-foot-tall reactors along with a smaller one—weighing a combined 1.1 million pounds—as part of the expansion project underway at...
Why layoff when you can ‘upskill’ existing workforce?
Wanting to meet fast-changing business needs without wasting money and time recruiting new employees, Turner Industries is among many Baton Rouge companies focusing its training efforts on a ready pool of talent: Its own...
Why so few women in politics?
Mayor Sharon Weston Broome began her political career 30 years ago with a seat on the East Baton Rouge Metro Council, where she surprisingly found little gender disparity among her colleagues, as one of...
Is success what we are striving for?
“What is your definition of success?” I asked Mary, a college graduate sitting on the other side of my desk, dressed sharply and demonstrating professionalism that any hiring manager would be deliberately observing in...
Managing: What is good feedback?
What's the best way to provide feedback to colleagues and how best to talk to workers about their performance? Even the Harvard Business Review can't seem to decide.
One of its recent stories argues that...
News alert: Gov. John Bel Edwards vetoes St. George transition bill
Gov. John Bel Edwards has vetoed Senate Bill 229, which would have created a transition structure in the event voters approve the incorporation of the City of St. George on Oct. 12.
The bill was...
Funes directed $180k of stolen money to father of former LSU football player
John Paul Funes—who pleaded guilty today to stealing more than $550,000 from the Our Lady of the Lake Foundation—sent approximately $180,000 of that money to the father of Vadal Alexander, the former LSU offensive...
JR Ball: Perhaps Baton Rouge could use Batman to fight crime
Eight unrelated shootings in East Baton Rouge Parish over 10 days in late June left...
Riegel: Louisiana’s role in the immigration debate
The immigration debate raging across the country may seem somewhat removed from us here in...
Publisher: Gov. John Bel Edwards is no conservative
If you look up John Bel Edwards on Wikipedia, it describes the governor as a...
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As has been the case every year since 1995 but one, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana tops the annual rankings of Top 100 private companies in Baton Rouge and across the nine-parish Capital Region. Checking in right behind is Turner Industries Group LLC, which has held the...
Business Report Executive Leadership Academy taking applications for fall 2019 session
The Business Report Executive Leadership Academy is now accepting applications for the fall 2019 session.
Business Report offers this customized program for advancing professionals and...
Get tickets to the Influential Women in Business Luncheon
Business Report has announced the 10 Capital Region women who will be celebrated as this year’s Influential Women in Business honorees. Those being recognized are:
—Stephanie...
Register now for the 2019 Best Places to Work
Think your company is one of the best places to work in the Capital Region?
Find out by registering for Business Report’s 2019 Best Places...
