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2013 Top Company winner: Graebel Companies Inc.
SERVICES GRAEBEL COMPANIES INC. (Watch a video about Graebel.) Graebel has its eyes on the prize; and the prize is the whole wide world. With its headquarters in Aurora, Graebel […]
Executive wheels: Even the base model wows
2013 VW PASSAT S Car companies usually send reviewers their most tricked-out models, loaded with all the extras aimed at wowing us and, ultimately, the readers and potential car buyers. […]
2013 Top Company winner: Level 3 Communications
TELECOM LEVEL 3 COMMUNICATIONS (Watch a video about Level 3.) Level 3 Communications currently has more than 10,000 employees around the world. After a 2011 acquisition of Global Crossing Limited, […]
Dreaded job interview questions…
The overriding rule is: If the topic is a concern to you, it’s very likely a concern to the interviewer. And my strong recommendation is: If the interviewer doesn’t (or can’t) bring up the topic, you should. Confront the issue head on. Get the dreaded topic off the table as soon as it’s appropriat...
Medicine in the information age
The Institute of Medicine found that 30 percent of U.S. health care spending in 2009 was waste. That’s $765 billion. And skyrocketing costs have ballooned at a rate that’s more than triple that of wages over the past decade. Many believe information technology is health care’s last hope for reduci...
Executive edge: Lloyd Lewis
When Lloyd Lewis goes to work as president and CEO of arc Thrift Stores, he is inspired every day by his son, Kennedy, who was born in 2003 with Down Syndrome. “A lot of parents go through a grieving or a disappointment process; some get angry; some get depressed,” Lewis said. “But I fell in love...
Energy: Gushing fruit
The marriage of multi-stage hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling techniques has unleashed a veritable gusher of oil and natural gas in Colorado. With more than 51,000 wells, the state ranked […]
Real estate: A tale of five cities
Following the collapse that began in 2007, Colorado’s residential real estate market has come roaring back, fueled by low interest rates, limited inventory coupled with buyer demand, and a gradually improving economy. Meanwhile, the commercial sector is at least on the mend, as evidenced by the re...
2013 Top Company winner: Mercury Payment Systems
FINANCIAL SERVICES Mercury Payment Systems (Watch a video about Mercury) Matt Taylor is betting on brick and mortar. “We want to help merchants feel empowered to attract, retain and excite […]
Chef Laura: Halloween humbug
Maybe it was the self-induced pressure to make this year even better than last year? Maybe it was the barrage of costume mega-stores that pop up where a failed JCPenney’s used to stand? Or maybe my glycemic index was sluggish and I just wasn’t feeling like myself? Snickers, stat! Last night, wh...
Have marriage certificate, will travel
Despite the usage of the terms “spouse” and “marriage” frequently in federal law, the recognition of marriage has historically been a state law question. The obvious conflict arose: would an individual subject to a valid-same-sex marriage currently living in a state not recognizing same-sex marria...
Best of CoBiz: Six good reasons to shun “corporate speak”
“We need to seamlessly engage 24/7 initiatives through best-of-breed actionable, client-facing items and proactively create 24/365 niche markets through backward-compatible, future-proof enterprise-wide e-services without turnkey systems.” Does the above sentence […]
