Joan McGuire

1 week 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.

2 weeks 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.

2 weeks 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.

2 weeks 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.

1 month ago | 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.