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Home>Katherine Gustafson

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2024 Virginia CFO Awards: Small Business: Joel Flax, Cohen Investment Group
Virginia CFO Awards July 30, 2024

2024 Virginia CFO Awards: Small Business: Joel Flax, Cohen Investment Group

Joel Flax hadn’t planned on serving as a chief financial officer after retiring from a full-fledged career as an accountant and tax advisor. But it also wasn’t the first time he made an unexpected career shift. In college, he had wanted to be a sportswriter. But shortly after graduating from William & Mary with a […]

Slow and steady
Economic Development March 28, 2024

Slow and steady

The Lynchburg region has seen the slowest job growth of any metro area in Virginia over the past three years, according to economic analyses, and it typically has a higher unemployment rate than the state average. But there’s more to the story, some officials say. For instance, the Lynchburg region saw 23 inquiries from economic […]

Old Dominion, new data
Cover Story February 28, 2024

Old Dominion, new data

As available land for data centers in Loudoun County — home to Data Center Alley, the world’s largest concentration of data centers — has become scarcer and more expensive, the industry has expanded into other Northern Virginia localities and beyond. In Virginia, Prince William County has become the other heat map for the industry — […]

This photo released by the National Transportation Safety Board shows a gaping hole where the paneled-over door had been at the fuselage plug area of Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 on Jan. 7 in Portland, Oregon.
Economic Development February 28, 2024

Va.’s Largest Companies: Emergency landing

As the U.S. economy showed signs of unexpected strength and inflation slowed throughout 2023, most of Virginia’s largest publicly traded companies held their own, with some riding high. Reston-based General Dynamics saw its highest-ever quarterly revenue, while Performance Food Group, headquartered in Goochland County, made the Fortune 100 for the first time. Arlington County-based Fortune [[...]

Business smarts
Education December 31, 2023

Business smarts

In Assistant Professor Michael Albert’s MBA data science class at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, students analyze historical usage data for a bike-sharing service to determine a bicycle maintenance schedule. In the past, they would tackle this simulation by writing code in the Python computer programming language — a pain point for […]

Them’s the brakes
CEO Pay September 28, 2023

Them’s the brakes

Total compensation for S&P 500 CEOs nationwide last year marked its smallest year-over-year increase since 2015, with pay increasing 0.9% from 2021. Here in Virginia, CEOs faced even greater headwinds — their total pay increased just 0.3% from 2021 to 2022, down from a 4.9% increase between 2020 and 2021. The slowdown was a result […]

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Virginia firm to build $200M White House ballroom co-funded by Trump

Virginia firm to build $200M White House ballroom co-funded by Trump

The White House announced Thursday that it would add a $200 million, 90,000-square-foot ballroom to [...]

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CoStar sues Zillow for alleged copyright infringement

CoStar Group has sued Zillow, claiming that the real estate website is using its copyrighted images [...]

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Mars to pump $2B into U.S. manufacturing

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Milestones: Virginia companies celebrating big anniversaries in 2025

Milestones: Virginia companies celebrating big anniversaries in 2025

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Congressional committee demands GMU president testify

George Mason University President Gregory Washington has now been called to testify before the GOP-c[...]

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Port of Virginia nears finish of $450M dredging project

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Trump coal policy changes could boost Southwest Virginia

Trump coal policy changes could boost Southwest Virginia

Southwest Virginia officials say President Donald Trump’s executive orders aimed at revitalizi[...]

Transco pipeline to expand for Virginia power demand

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