The “mad race” to beat the tariffs, especially on goods from China, loaded up retailer balance sheets earlier this year “more than was comfortable,” says Michael Babbitt of Synovus.

The industry's oversupply has led to a crash in cannabis retail prices across the country's most mature markets, from Michigan to Oregon.

A Congressional bill would streamline the process for former prisoners to get credentialed to work in booming transportation and energy industries in Louisiana, says local business champion.

At the same time that top executives are waxing enthusiastically about the value of AI, many are putting the brakes on investing in the technology.

Together, an electrical distributor and a tech company harnessed the power of artificial intelligence to address the persistent challenge of lead time variability.

Beyond hunkering down in firefighting mode, it’s just as important that companies take a longer view of things.

Even as federal policy pulls back, the work of building a cleaner, low-carbon future is continuing in states and communities determined to make progress on their own terms.

The future, in Louisiana, at least, lies in building more modest vessels that make the most of advanced technology, rather than giant containerships, bulk carriers and tankers.

The very notion of a big selling period that’s treated as a once-a-year phenomenon is out of date, says Greg Dyer, chief commercial officer of Randstad USA.

American manufacturers rushing to bring production back home from Asia? Time for a reality check, according to the latest Reshoring Index from Kearney.