September 30, 2013
In the course of my career, I’ve always been amazed at what leaders will do for their organizations. So many founders and CEOs will spend countless late nights in the office, endure long and grueling business trips, even sacrifice their own financial resources, all to increase the likelihood, even slightly, that their enterprises will succeed.
September 20, 2013
A Catholic Business Journal Exclusive. (To see this interview with photos, click here) Have you ever wondered what is it like to be a professional long-distance, endurance athlete? How does Faith impact that career? You are about to find out. Liz Lyles is a 35-year-old professional triathlete. She and her husband, Chip, have two children, Luke (5) and Emma (3). In short, Liz has two major passions in life: family and Ironman competition. And that makes their lives anything but
September 9, 2013
“Virtuous, Faith-Based MBA” Begins September 2013; Online Master’s in Catechetics Expected in Fall 2014
July 8, 2013
I knew Marin through her dad, Matt, and granddad, Ed. For more than a decade Ed, as a senior account rep for Merrill Lynch, handled the financial assets of a company for which I was CEO.
June 17, 2013
A couple of months back sequestration was imposed upon us with the threat that the country would essentially shut down services. I explained in my previous column why that would not happen. And, I don’t know about you but I have not seen any material repercussions from sequestration. Oh, well, maybe if you wanted to take a White House tour or you did not want to have your flig
May 10, 2013
“The just man, though he die early, shall be at rest.
April 8, 2013
Former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, 87, died today of a stroke. Margaret Thatcher’s political career has been one of the most remarkable of modern times. Born in October 1925 at Grantham, a small market town in eastern England, she rose to become the first (and for two decades the only) woman to lead a major Western democracy.
February 26, 2013
Joseph Alois Ratzinger was born in Marktl am Inn, Bavaria, on April 16, 1927—Holy Saturday—and baptized that same day; the first person baptized in the new Easter water. It was a sign of blesing, he wrote in a memoir, that his life from the beginning was thus immersed in the Easter mystery.
December 21, 2012
Many homes and Christmas trees around the country will be adorned with fewer gifts than usual this year as millions of people are either under-employed or unemployed, and have been so for months. Parents and gift-givers are making difficult choices about what they can spend and for whom they can afford gifts.
August 28, 2012
Neil Armstrong, a man whose name has long been associated with the ultimate in modern space travel, passed away due to complications of heart surgery. But his legacy continues.
“I was very fortunate to have once interviewed Neil Armstrong,” recalls Juan Senor, a prominent London-based Catholic, well-respected international journalist, speaker, and partner at Innovation Media Consultants who once interviewed the first human to step foot on the moon. “I asked him [Armstrong] what he thought of people who claimed that Apollo 11’s trip to the moon was
It’s a simple fact that the “business” of higher education has led to a big problem across the country. There are too many people who are going to college in the first place, but also, far too many who are carrying enormous student and other loan debt as a result of their sometimes-impractical degrees.
July 2, 2012
A recent nationwide study, The Rise of Asian Americans, (June 2012) published by the well-known non-partisan Pew research Center concludes:
May 14, 2012
Contrary to what is commonly heard in the news, manufacturing is on the rise again according to industry leaders. Job openings are increasing rapidly, yet the number of open positions being filled is not increasing. For manufacturers, especially those returning to the U.S. for various reasons, this is a huge problem.
May 11, 2012
The thing you need to know about California brush fires is how fast they can move and how high they can reach.
Whenever we smell smoke here in the southwest corner of the country, we’re on high alert.
August 4, 2011
by Kathy Sullivan
