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Cyberwar zone

Biden, experts warn businesses attacks are coming

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Earlier this year, Kwabena Konadu received a call from one of the small businesses he advises on IT and cybersecurity. The company’s chief financial officer had received an email from…

“The business case for diversity is clear,” says Jon G. Muñoz, chief diversity, equity and inclusion officer at Booz Allen Hamilton Inc., the McLean-based Fortune 500 global management firm. Photo by Stephen Gosling

DEI openers

Hiring of diversity and equity chiefs is on upswing

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Every movement has its moment. And now appears to be the moment for diversity, equity and inclusion officers in C-suites, academia and government. Black Lives Matters protests sparked by the…

HBO’s “Succession” depicts the dysfunctional and ultra-powerful Roy family, who should definitely not be a model for Virginia’s successful family-owned businesses. Photo courtesy Warner Media

All in the family

You can’t spell succession without ‘success’

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In the popular HBO TV series “Succession,” members of the Roy clan scheme, lie and backbite in an attempt to take over the family’s media empire once the patriarch steps…

Loudoun County is known as Data Center Alley because it has the world’s highest concentration of data centers. It has received $1.5 billion in tax revenue from the centers over the last six years Photo by Will Schermerhorn.

Heads in the cloud

Data centers are prime gets for Va. localities

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Compare economic development wish lists across Virginia, and you’ll find one item in common. It’s not a specific manufacturer, a large health care system, or even a lucrative brewery. It’s…

The Richmond Flying Squirrels, which had their 2020 season canceled, planned to return to full capacity on June 1. Photo by Matthew R.O. Brown

Play ball!

Sports teams and tourism destinations expect summer rebound

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Minor League Baseball is back for 2021, after the coronavirus pandemic canceled the 2020 season. And there’s no question that this summer will look much different than a typical baseball…

Doubleday by Hilton at Virginia Beach General Manager John Zirkle has pitched in with housekeeping chores amid a severe staffing shortage. “We do what you have to do,” he says. Photo by Mark Rhodes

Help wanted

Hotels, restaurants confront post-pandemic staffing crisis

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Twenty years ago, John Zirkle was just starting out in the Virginia Beach hotel business as a houseman, stripping bed sheets and doing laundry. Fast-forward to today and he is…

Devon Anders is president of Mount Crawford-based InterChange Group Inc., a storage and supply chain logistics company. Photo by Norm Shafer

Help wanted

Valley manufacturers face workforce shortage

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Meat, coffee creamer, frozen fruits and chocolate. These commodities represent some of the bread and butter business lines, literally, of Devon Anders’ mega storage and supply chain logistics company, which…

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Is Trump good for business?

Will voters tell president ‘You’re fired’ or hire him for second term?

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President Donald Trump entered the White House in 2017 with no political experience but a lifetime spent in business. Nearly four years later, with the incumbent Republican president up for…