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1 month ago | 
oregonbusiness.com | Joan McGuire
Protected: 100 Best Green Workplaces in Oregon in 2025May 27, 2025 Written by OB StaffThere is no excerpt because this is a protected post. Share this article!
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1 month ago | 
oregonbusiness.com | Joan McGuire
Daugherty, who was hired last fall to lead Prosper Portland’s Office of Small Business, launched this spring as a first point of contact between business owners and the city. Share this article!Mitch Daugherty launched his first business partly out of necessity. He’s advocated for entrepreneurs ever since.
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1 month ago | 
oregonbusiness.com | Joan McGuire
ADP’s chief talent acquisition officer writes about how employers can stay competitive in a hot labor market. Share this article!If you’re an employer in the Portland area, you may be feeling labor market competition heating up. According to Issue 7 of ADP Research’s quarterly Today at Work, the Portland metro is the fifth-hottest labor market in the country.
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2 months ago | 
oregonbusiness.com | Joan McGuire
Oregon nonprofits can register now through early July at oregonbusiness.com. Share this article!The 2025 100 Best Nonprofits to Work For in Oregon survey is now open. Interested nonprofits can visit our signup page to register for the survey, allowing access to a survey that can be completed by employees and volunteers now through early July.
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2 months ago | 
oregonbusiness.com | Joan McGuire
Roboticist Naomi Fitter performs stand-up comedy with a small humanoid robot to gather data on human-machine interactions. Share this article!In a typical black-box performance space, a 2-foot humanoid robot stands on a square IKEA end table. In this YouTube video, a human arm from the edge of the frame holds a microphone to the robot’s smooth shiny head. “Hello, I am Jon,” he says and waves his small plastic arm, the joints at his shoulder and elbow whirring.
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2 months ago | 
oregonbusiness.com | Joan McGuire
In the thick of the Great Recession, Tsang left her job as an engineer to take wedding videos, beginning a journey that took her to the Super Bowl preshow and beyond. Share this article!In 2009 Joyce Tsang was working as an engineer at 3M, designing orthodontic products. It was the work she trained to do in college, and she was successful — she holds a couple of patents from that period. “The science part of it was great,” she says, but she never felt comfortable in the corporate work environment.
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2 months ago | 
oregonbusiness.com | Joan McGuire
How Oregon workplaces work in 2025Share this article!In the fall of 2020, Oregon Business approached a variety of business leaders with one big question: What is the future of work? The results, published in the January 2021 Power Book, reflect a swirl of uncertainty. Most Americans did not have access to the COVID-19 vaccine, and case counts (along with rates of hospitalization and death) were still high. Some offices remained remote-only; others had reopened.
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2 months ago | 
oregonbusiness.com | Joan McGuire
The owner of Le Pigeon and Canard in Portland describes how wine tariffs would impact and reshape Oregon’s dining scene. Share this article!Sometimes I joke that running a restaurant and serving people food is the world’s second-oldest profession. We are not building rocket ships, but what we do is important, as we are making people’s lives a little brighter one meal at a time. What happens in a restaurant is very tactile and immediate.
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Mar 21, 2025 | 
oregonbusiness.com | Joan McGuire
Hanging out with the merchandising and marketing officer at Market of ChoiceShare this article!What are you reading? I’m reading two books right now. One is Impossible Odds by Jessica Buchanan; her husband, Erik Landemalm; and Anthony Flacco. This is an incredible story about an Oregonian who was doing aid work in Somalia but was kidnapped by rebels and held captive for 93 days.
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Mar 20, 2025 | 
oregonbusiness.com | Joan McGuire
Ranked by assets under management (AUM) in Oregon and Southwest WashingtonShare this article!OR and SW Wash. AUM: $5.6 billionTotal AUM: $8.99 billionLicensed professionals in OR and SW Wash.: 27Oregon Full-time Employees: 61OR and SW Wash. AUM: $3.6 billionTotal AUM: $5 billionLicensed professionals in OR and SW Wash.: 5Oregon Full-time Employees: 34OR and SW Wash. AUM: $3.1 billionTotal AUM: $6.5 billionLicensed professionals in OR and SW Wash.: 22Oregon Full-time Employees: 32OR and SW Wash.
