The following column was contributed by Jim Needell, SPHR, SHRM-SCP. In most restaurant and hotel mergers and acquisitions, HR arrives late. Sometimes it's the week before signing, when so ...

Most owners begin preparing to sell their business much later than they should. By the time a buyer raises a problem in diligence, fixing it can be expensive, and sometimes there isn't enough ti ...

Good public policy starts with understanding a public problem and being willing to change the approach as the conditions change. Over time, our Board of Commissioners heard consistently from reside ...

If you've spent any time reading about selling a business, you've probably gotten the message by now: Start planning early. Three years. Five years. Sometimes even ten.  That's goo ...

This article was contributed by Stuart Borrett, Ph.D., Associate Provost for Research and Innovation for Research at UNCW. Most people in our region know the University of North Carolina Wilmington ...

Over the past several months, our attorneys at Losee Coggins LLP have seen an increase in disputes involving closely held businesses across Coastal North Carolina. Conflicts over valuation, voting rig ...

Every company has a culture, whether leaders intentionally build it or simply allow it to form over time. Culture is not only what is written in a handbook or printed on a wall. It is the collection o ...

When most organizations think about workplace safety, they often focus on physical security measures, emergency response plans, policies, procedures, cameras, access control systems, and active threat ...

There is a stage of life nobody really prepares you for.   Your kids still need you. Your parents start needing you again. Somewhere in the middle, you’re supposed to keep your own ...

Most businesses have a pretty good idea who their competitors are. They know the companies bidding on the same work, recruiting the same employees, and showing up in the same searches. They know th ...

Five years after the tragic collapse of Champlain Towers South in Surfside, Florida, homeowner’s association (HOA) boards across the country continue to wrestle with an important question: How c ...

What does your space say about you and your business?  More importantly, does it give you the best possible first impression?  The minute a client, customer or patient walks through yo ...

For most small and midsize business leaders, the question about AI has shifted. It is no longer "should we use it?" That answer is almost always yes. The harder question is "where and h ...

Warren Buffett once said, “Interest rates are to asset prices like gravity is to the apple. They power everything in the economic universe.”  That’s a pretty simple way to de ...

Growth has a way of creating opportunities. A new market opens up. A customer asks for an additional service. A new technology promises to make the business more efficient. Individually, each oppor ...

For a growing business, knowing how much money is in the bank is only the beginning of effective cash management. As operations expand, so do the financial moving parts. More customer payments come in ...

Truck parking was not a business I originally set out to build.  I was fortunate to own the properties where my other company, Badger Box Mobile Storage, operates, and we had some unused ...

This article was contributed by Dr. Dave Glew, Interim Dean for UNCW’S Cameron School of Business.   As the new academic year begins, the Cameron School of Business welcomes student ...

Drive through northern Brunswick County today and it is almost impossible not to notice the change. New neighborhoods are taking shape. Businesses are opening. Commercial development is expanding. ...

Wilmington International Airport (ILM) is growing rapidly. Enplanements have increased 66% over the last four years, and ILM’s air-service network has expanded from 3 airlines and 8 nonstop ...