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What if the music industry could be used as a guide to important principles in business and the economy? It would sure make introductory economics courses more fun. The idea is not as fanciful as it might sound: As Alan ...

Tagged with: Peter R. Orszag

Whatever Kyle Kashuv’s defenders would have you believe, using the N-word 12 times in one sentence is not a youthful indiscretion. It’s not like Senior Skip Day or drinking Natty Boh in someone’s basement; it’s not a word that accidentally ...

There’s a famous saying that if you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed. Famous? Sure. Commonly undertaken? Not in the world of mergers and acquisition. Quite the opposite. During the course of my 30-plus year career as an ...

Tagged with: Christopher Helmrath

Family businesses are often conceived and formulated around the family dinner table, literally or figuratively. They are often constructed with informal terms, handshakes and hugs, the assumption that relationships will remain in a steady harmonious state among loved ones. That ...

Tagged with: Christopher Helmrath

As the 33rd chair of the Greater Baltimore Committee I was privileged to speak at its recent annual meeting to highlight several new initiatives the organization has undertaken to ensure that the Greater Baltimore region remains an attractive place for ...

Tagged with: greater baltimore Greater Baltimore Committee Paul A. Tiburzi

With a collective sigh of relief following the second resignation of a Baltimore mayor under a legal cloud in the last decade, it’s clearly time to begin a new chapter in our city’s history. And to make Baltimore the place ...

Tagged with: Baltimore Paul Sturm

In a column published in The Daily Record on April 19, Donald Fry, president and CEO of the Greater Baltimore Committee, offered a view on “small cell” infrastructure for wireless telecommunication companies. His breathless tone and  the column’s headline, “5G ...

Tagged with: 5G Michael Sanderson Scott Hancock

The General Assembly took major steps forward this year to make our state healthier. Lawmakers passed two landmark bills – one to expand access to health insurance by making enrollment far easier and one that will begin to bring down ...

Tagged with: Vincent DeMarco

In commercial litigation, a primary role of a financial expert is to compute economic damages that may have been suffered by a party. In order to quantify economic damages, experts are commonly asked to calculate lost profits and/or lost business ...

While it will always be true that what’s good for the goose (male) is good for the gander (female), it is not always true that what’s good for the macroeconomy is necessarily good for the microeconomy – family-owned businesses, in ...

Tagged with: Christopher Helmrath