Recently added articles from Smart Business Cleveland:
Fast Lane: Micki Tubbs
Sep 01, 2008; McClellan, Matt ... No matter how big her company gets, Micki Tubbs will always make the time to stop and say hello to her employees. She says that will be the case even when staying in touch becomes a challenge at FIT Technologies, as the IT company Tubbs co-founded with Michelle Tomallo in 1999 has grown to 189 ...
Smart Leaders: Gary Shamis
Sep 01, 2008; McClellan, Matt ... Gary Shamis isn't an inventor, but the managing director of SS&G Financial Services Inc. doesn't have to be for his firm to be successful. "We are very good at copying others," Shamis says. "What I try to do is learn from others who have done things successfully. Once in awhile, we'll take ...
Checking the pulse
Sep 01, 2008; Gingerich, Roger T ... The state of the local and national economy is on everybody's mind, but how it affects one industry or another is hard to understand. To get a full checkup on some of the industries that are thought to have taken a beating recently, Smart Business and Skoda Minotti sponsored a survey of more ...
Housing slump
Sep 01, 2008; Ranallo, Robert A ... If any industry has felt the troubled waves of the current U.S. economic state as much as the construction industry, it's real estate. Nary has a day gone by without talk of foreclosures, mortgage crises and the like. But what about the people on the front lines here in Northeast Ohio? Are ...