I’m Jeff Tanner, Dean of the Strome College of Business, and this is a Strome Business Minute. I was on a call with several local business owners talking about the challenges facing our region’s ability to grow. While the world may have seemed pretty good

I’m Jeff Tanner, Dean of the Strome College of Business, and this is a Strome Business Minute. COVID has hit people of color and their businesses disproportionately. One reason is personal finances. African-Americans are twice as likely to live in poverty

I’m Jeff Tanner, Dean of the Strome College of Business, and this is a Strome Business Minute. The economic recovery appears stalled out as many indicators of economic health flattened over the past month or so. For example, weekly reports of new unemploy

I’m Jeff Tanner and this is a Strome Business Minute. One University of Georgia and two Notre Dame professors recently found that CEOs who were hired and paid at an above market rate outperformed those paid at or below market rates, with market rates weig

I’m Jeff Tanner and this is a Strome Business Minute. With COVID, we’ve seen the acceptance of tele-medicine grow rapidly. At the same time, however, the country’s three largest pharmacy retailers, Walgreens, CVS, and Walmart, have either just inked deals

I’m Jeff Tanner, dean of the Strome College of Business, and this is a Strome Business Minute. Massachusetts-based Moderna announced a successful early stage trial for its COVID vaccine, causing stock prices in the NASDAQ-traded pharma to jump more than s

I’m Jeff Tanner, Dean of the Strome College of Business, and this is a Strome Business Minute. The federal government rescinded regulations that prohibit international students from taking a fully online schedule. The regulations meant that if a Universit

I’m Jeff Tanner, and this is a Strome Business Minute. Hotels and related tourism businesses make up a large part of our local economy. The good news is that we’re doing better than pretty much everyone else in the country. In fact, our hotels were the on

I’m Jeff Tanner, dean of the Strome College of Business, and this is a Strome Business Minute. While driving up the Eastern Shore, I thought that with the COVID virus and the quality of car sound systems, it was time for drive-in movie theaters to make a

The 757 just got a new transportation option to DC, called the ROX – or the Rapid Overland Express. The ROX is a luxury motor coach and, having traveled on something like this in Mexico, I’ve wondered for years why we haven’t seen something like it here.