It’s the peak of snowbird season, which means more cars on the roads and shoppers in the aisles; it’s harder to make a dinner reservation or tee-time; and everywhere you
The original economic engine
Cybersecurity and the Board
In the past 12 months, we have seen one massive corporate security breach after another. Major retailers (Target, Home Depot, Neiman Marcus, Sony), e-commerce sites (eBay) and financial institutions (JPMorgan)
eMerging expansion
eMerge Americas, one the largest tech conferences in the Americas, is helping position South Florida as an international tech hub. While eMerge was the vision of Miami tech entrepreneur Manny
A Monster of an Event
For decades, Butch Buchholz was known for promoting tennis on Key Biscayne, but now he’s on his third year of building community support for the WGC-Cadillac World Golf Championship at
JA of South Florida adding four to Hall of Fame
A digital pioneer, a top community banker, a private equity leader and the longtime leader of a major hospital system will be honored by Junior Achievement of South Florida as
Cracks in Cuba policy
President Barack Obama has cleared the way for U.S. businesses to do more business in Cuba, which prompted this cover’s illustration about whether the U.S. trade embargo is springing some
Designed with health in mind: Aventura ParkSquare
Aventura is gaining its first mixed-use community and a new direction for healthy living with the creation of Aventura ParkSquare. Site development began in December for the project, which is
Opening the doors to Cuba
Cuba’s economy GDP: $121 billion (2012), ranked 68th globally. South Florida’s GDP is $263 billion GDP Growth: 3.1% (2012), 112th globally, between Algeria and Macedonia GDP Per Capita: $10,200 (2010),
South Florida’s banking history takes a good turn
Interviewing Jorge Gonzalez about the continuing success of City National Bank of Florida prompted me to reflect on how banking has been one of the challenging businesses in South Florida
The Best of Boating
It just wouldn’t be high season in South Florida without the Miami International Boat Show, now called the Progressive Insurance Miami International Boat Show, and considered one of the world’s