Lightning-fast future Institute for Supply Management educates industry leaders. By Shannon Lowry From its humble start in 1915 when 24 purchasing agents met to share efficient buying methods and practices, the Institute for Supply Management® now serves 50,000 professional members by providing highly specialized education, training, certification, leadership development, market intelligence and research. ISM members
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Forward Movement At 26, Samuel J. Rosenmayer has made bold statements with his watch designs and his life By Brenda M. Beveridge
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Over 600 companies provide workplace protection of LGBTQ employees As of 2018, the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer community are not explicitly protected by federal non-discrimination law. So in 2018, 609 major companies put into place initiatives that offer their LGBTQ employees workplace protection from discrimination. The global number of employees with a corporate
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Meeting Expectations AMI takes corporate meetings to the next level For over 16 years, American Meetings, Inc. has been taking the meeting business to the next level innovating the space with the latest technology, all over the world. “The marketing needs are always changing and we try to stay updated with our client needs. That’s
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BDR expands criteria to include more diverse firms By Robert Stanton Billion Dollar Roundtable Inc. has become more diverse. Effective Jan. 1, 2018, the organization decided to broaden its supplier-diversity criteria to include veteran business enterprises, disability-owned business enterprises and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender or LGBT business enterprises. The Billion Dollar Roundtable, created in
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Cover Story In the digital media space, Social Driver takes up a lot of VROOM! By Brenda M. Beveridge Social Driver’s CV reads like a company that has been around for 20 years instead of an ambitious startup that just turned seven. With a vision to move up by being a trusted partner, it
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- On the Hill Congressional panelsfocus on LGBTQ policies By DeVere Kutscher On February 27, 2018, StartOut held its first Congressional Summit on LGBTQ Entrepreneurship on Capitol Hill, in Washington, DC. Founded in 2009, StartOut is “an LGBTQ non-profit organization, created to promote LGBTQ equality and combat discrimination in the business world.” With six city
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BY ROBERT STANTON American Airlines knows how to create a tailwind as well as ride one, and their mentorship of Tony Ray Meyer has helped put a small business on the map. Meyer’s Westbury, N.Y.-based company, TripleBonded, is seeing phenomenal business with its patented FastPatch solution for repairing concrete on airport runways and industrial warehouse
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NGLCC Strives For LGBT Equality Through Supplier Economics Nationwide, more and more of America’s top businesses are realizing that LGBT-led companies have manufacturing and service clout that account for a rather daunting portion of the gross national product. According to National Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce’s 2017 report, America’s LGBT Economy Report, LGBT-owned businesses
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BY BRENDA MATAMOROS-BEVERIDGE Customers are not reading newspapers or consuming television at the same rates as they were a few years ago. The onslaught of new media platforms and brands trying to reach their base has forever changed the marketing to customer landscape and IMRE Marketing is taking advantage of the new terrain. According to
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