Sources say a new “Big Box” retailer may be opening soon near downtown Detroit. Cubicle F’s Steve Baeckelandt reports.

Q) The CEO has finally started talking to me! Last week, she nodded and said, ‘Hello Piedmont’. Then yesterday, she approached me in the hall and said, “I’ve been hearing great things about you, Piedmont.” It’s great to have the CEO appreciate you, and I feel like my hard...

After meeting regularly since February of 2021 and spending $4.33 million on research, the ad hoc logo committee at Parker-Glossman announced a stunning change to the company’s long-standing logo. It is now parker:glossman. “Yesterday we were hyphenated and old-fashioned,” CEO Sylvia Nordman wrote to the firm’s 3000 employees. “Today we are...

In 2018, the top five executives at major US companies were surrounded by an average of six people, everywhere they went - ranging from two or three at companies earning under $500 million a year to ten or more at those earning in the billions. Today, the average is just...

As recently as 2021, Executive Burnout cost US business over $600 billion a year in medical and replacement expenses. That’s likely to change, thanks to a new charging helmet that enables burned-out executives to get back to brainstorming in as little as five minutes. Developed by Slippstick – famous for...

Lavastoviglie – that’s Italian for “Dishwasher” – is Jim Parks' third Detroit restaurant, following Peaceful Cheese and Shove It.  It opened two weeks ago, and reservations are booked for the next five months. Parks attributes this to the restaurant's “focused conversation."  Each day a list of three topics is posted...

Because millions of people are now working at home, it has become more difficult for US companies to put employees in the hot seat. That’s why many have begun transporting the seats to the homes of under-performers. "Providing employees a hot seat experience is an essential part of their development,"...

Downtown Detroit is home to countless historic buildings. But did you know that many of these magnificent edifices were also the birthplace for some significant corporate events? Here are just four of them.

After trying her hand at start-ups ranging from RenCen shaped salt shakers to telegrams delivered by singing artisans, Monica Portman plans to open “Detroit Coaster Company” by the end of 2015. A self-described “Detro-preneur” since 2012, and a certified change agent since 2011, she got the idea while attending an...

Citing losses of over $220 million during the past four months, CityThird of Newark, New Jersey, has launched a new initiative to help it regain profitability.  Starting May 1, customers making a cash withdrawal at any of the bank's 4,500 ATM machines will have exactly five seconds to grab...

Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has granted First Amendment religious freedom to the Hobby Lobby Corporation - validating the principle that “corporations are people too'” - many court watchers expect other companies to start demanding rights of citizenship, including the right to adopt children. One case drawing a lot...