Recent Articles
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Negotiating commercial leases: Determine your bargaining strength
Dale Willerton and Jeff Grandfield RetailFor many commercial tenants, negotiating a good lease or lease renewal against an experienced agent or landlord can be a challenge. While an entrepreneur focuses on marketing and managing, savvy real estate agents and brokers are specialized salespeople. Their job is to sell tenants on leasing their location at the highest possible rental rate.
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Golf Q&A: Georgia State Director of Golf Joe Inman
William SouléJoe Inman is the former head coach and current director of golf at Georgia State University. He played collegiately for Wake Forest where he was a three time All-American and a three-time Atlantic Coast Conference champion.
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Brain scans show fathers respond differently to daughters than sons
Dorothy L. Tengler Mental HealthcareThe ratio of boys to girls born in the United States is 51 percent to 49 percent. Since 1940, an average of 91,685 more male babies have been born each year than females, a total of 5,776,130 over that 63-year period. An early review notes that in the United States, parents — especially fathers — have shown a strong preference for sons. Couples with sons are more likely to marry and are less likely to divorce if married. Fathers also tend to spend more time with sons than with daughters.
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Communal spaces on the rise in hotels
Bambi Majumdar Travel, Hospitality & Event ManagementHotel industry stalwarts have admitted that Airbnb has forced them to compete with "people's living rooms" and replicate that experience to sell their brands. Changing customer demands have given rise to a new generation of hotels where the rooms are getting smaller, and the common areas are getting bigger and better. The focus is on creating small and cozy rooms, along with sleek and stylish lobbies, lounges, cafes and bars that beckon guests to spend time and interact with others.
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Finding the proper place for the arts in education: Dance
Sheilamary Koch EducationDance, defined as movements of the body that are expressive rather than purely functional, has existed as long as we have. Using the body to express feelings, sensations and emotions is the oldest form of human communication — uniting communities, emulating and honoring natural cycles, celebrating harvests and hunts, and signaling rites of passage.
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New laws loom as driver shortages continue
Delany Martinez Distribution & WarehousingLong-haul trucking has been in the midst of a staffing crisis for some years now, with numbers of available candidates dwindling and driver turnover hovering near a staggering 80 percent across the board. Faced with this issue, some companies have chosen to pursue the route of innovation, with Google/Waymo hard at work both innovating in the driverless concept as well as sparring in court with rival Uber/Otto. Other truck driving companies have chosen to stay the course, but find themselves with a particularly troublesome roadblock looming: electronic logging device mandates.
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7 delicious foods full of health‑boosting antioxidants
Michael Joseph Food & BeverageYou know when you read these lists about healthy eating and all the foods sound barely edible? Well, this article is going to be completely different. I'm going to present seven of the best sources of antioxidants, and they all taste delicious.
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The future of surveying? Quantum computing and blockchain
Robert W. Foster Science & TechnologyForty-four years ago, the U.S. government introduced the global navigation satellite system — what's known today as GPS. I remember attending a seminar where this amazing technology was described with speculation about its application in surveying. The primary purpose of GPS was as a navigation system, but in its ability to solve positioning with precision, some futurist thinkers in the surveying profession could see an application, not only for the geodesist but for the land surveyor as well. To a flat-land surveyor familiar with chains and links, this was Buck Rogers stuff and highly theoretical.
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Prices putting a squeeze on housing market
Michael J. Berens Construction & Building MaterialsShort supply of available inventory pushed down sales and drove up prices of existing homes in June. Although demand remains high, would-be buyers are struggling to find suitable homes at a price they can afford. By the same token, the shortage of existing homes for sale helped to boost new-home construction last month. Builders, though, being hit by increasing costs, worry that their properties may soon be priced out of reach for many potential buyers.
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To fund or not to fund: The Canadian festival scene
Sabrina Fracassi Travel, Hospitality & Event ManagementFood festivals, music festivals and even more food festivals. When it comes to tourism, Canada has become quite the draw. Considering the long, harsh Canadian winter, it's no surprise that summer is embraced with open arms. Festivals give Canadians a platform to come together and enjoy the warm weather. Even international tourists are making the trek to the Great White North.