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University presidents cite ways to address workforce needs
By Brice Wallace Flexibility. Inclusion. Connections. Creativity. Those characteristics are often cited as necessary for any business to be successful. They also were recently cited as necessary...Thanks to Garff family, UofU has new home for its MBA programs
The David Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah has dedicated the Robert H. and Katharine B. Garff Building, a 150,000-square-foot building that houses the school’s MBA, Professional...Utah businesses mostly OK with NAFTA revision
On Sept. 30, the United States, Canada and Mexico finalized a trade deal promised by the Trump administration that will replace the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Assuming it is...
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Construction begins at Pluralsight campus
Pluralsight Inc., a Utah-based enterprise technology learning software developer, has broken ground on a new worldwide headquarters in Draper. Pluralsight co-founder and CEO Aaron Skonnard and...Utah companies expect to give employees 3 percent raises
Utah’s Employers Council has released results from its 2018 Planning Packet Survey which highlights projections about compensations budgets for local companies for 2019 and compares them with the...Utah's fiscal condition? 8th best
he Mercatus Center at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, has release its annual report on the fiscal health of the states. Utah comes out No. 8 in the study called “Ranking the States...Web to Door launches in Utah
Web to Door Corp., a subsidiary of Supurva Healthcare Group Inc. of Oakland, California, has opened an office in Salt Lake City, Utah and hired its first five employees on the first day of...Incentive to help HeathEquity add 500 employees at expanded headquarters
By Brice Wallace HealthEquity Inc. will add up to 500 employees over the next seven years at a new building adjacent to its current Draper headquarters. The company made the announcement last week...Dominion ordered to cease third-party billings
In response to complaints from the public, the Division of Public Utilities and the Office of Consumer Services, the Utah Public Service Commission has ordered Dominion Energy to stop using its...State looking for private firms to operate some of its golf courses
Some of the state’s golf courses currently operated by Utah’s Division of Parks and Recreation may soon be operated by private management firms. The state agency has posted a request for proposals...Aligned Energy opens Utah data center
Aligned Energy, a Plano, Texas-based data center company, has opened its Utah headquarters in West Jordan. The 294,000-square-foot building will serve as a colocation data center supporting both...Utah Foundation’s Quality of Life Index declines despite economy
Utahns continue to worry about their cost of housing and that has resulted in a drop in the Utah Foundation’s Quality of Life Index. The index is down a point from last year and three points over...Utah gets failing grade for not expanding on FMLA protection
A new report from the National Partnership for Women & Families, a Washington, D.C.-based advocacy group, gives Utah a grade of F for failing to provide basic workplace protections that go beyond...Wells Fargo/Gallup poll: Investors not ready for surprise expenses
According to a new Wells Fargo/Gallup survey, while individual U.S. investors remain optimistic about the economy, many say they are one emergency away from encountering expenses that could...Editorial Cartoon: Victim of Own Success
Industry Briefs 10-16-18
Industry Briefs are provided as a free service to our readers. Company news information may be sent to brice@slenterprise.com. The submission deadline is one week before publication....Government-provided parental leave won't result in hoped-for free lunch
By Veronique de Rugy In recent months, a vocal group of conservatives has joined with Democrats in arguing that it’s time for the government to correct a blatant market failure: the private...The Supreme Court, democracy are real victims of the Kavanaugh mess
By Fareed Zakaria The most consequential casualty of the recent confirmation battle is not Christine Blasey Ford or Brett Kavanaugh. It is the Supreme Court and, thus, American democracy. The...Most of today’s activists bent on humiliation and destruction of authority
By Robert Pembroke Nathan Glazer, 95, is one of the last living intellectuals who helped shape U.S. policy during the 1960s and 1970s. During a teaching stint in 1964 at the University of...
