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Jan 30, 2022

Directory of business schools in Virginia

Public colleges & universities (nonprofit, based in Virginia) CHRISTOPHER NEWPORT UNIVERSITY Joseph W. Luter III School of Business Newport News | 757-594-7215 cnu.edu/schoolofbusiness GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY School of Business Fairfax | 703-993-1880 business.gmu.edu JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY College of Business Harrisonburg | 540-568-2785 jmu.edu/cob LONGWOOD UNIVERSITY College of Business & Economics Farmville | 434-395-2042 lo[...]

John Earl is Averett University’s new manager at Danville Regional Airport. Photo by Hannah King
Jan 30, 2022

Averett students take flight at Danville airport

Times are changing at Danville Regional Airport. Averett University became the airport’s fixed-base operator in July 2021, replacing General Aviation Inc., a family-owned business which served as the FBO for more than 70 years. The city of Danville owns the airport and its fueling facility. The city’s chosen FBO pays the cit[...]

America is “dangerously dependent on foreign sources for some of our most critical essential medicines,” says Phlow CEO Dr. Eric Edwards (L), who co-founded the Richmond-based pharmaceutical startup with Frank Gupton (R).
Jan 30, 2022

Economic healing

Over the years, Petersburg has become accustomed to bad economic news. After Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp., Petersburg’s largest employer for decades, left the city in 1985, Petersburg suffered an economic downturn from which it’s never quite recovered. More recently, in 2016, Petersburg city government had a roughly [...]

Kristina Emminger, senior director of Resonate’s  sales strategy team, used a “snow day” on a Friday in October 2021 to take a long weekend with her family at Shenandoah National Park. Photo courtesy Kristina Emminger
Jan 26, 2022

Flex time

The traditional 9-to-5 workday at the office is a thing of the past at forward-thinking companies looking to recruit and retain top talent. “That’s out the door,” says Melody Donovan-Hopkins, a director and senior human resources consultant with Fahrenheit Advisors in Richmond.  In its place is a flexible work model that [...]

Jan 26, 2022

Best Places To Work 2022

This is the 12th year that Virginia Business has compiled the Best Places to Work in Virginia list in collaboration with Pennsylvania-based Best Companies Group. More than 200 companies applied for inclusion in the 2022 Best Places to Work in Virginia cohort. A hundred companies were chosen, divided into three categories: small [...]

B&A President and CEO Jonathan Evans says employees are his firm’s “No. 1 asset.” Photo by Will Schermerhorn
Jan 26, 2022

Primary care

When the pandemic rocked employees’ well-being last year, executives at McLean-based software solutions company B&A went out of their way to make people feel valued and connected. “We realized that a lot of folks were struggling with what was going on in the country and the world,” says Jonathan Evans, president and CE[...]

Jan 26, 2022

12th Annual Best Places To Work list

This is the 12th year that Virginia Business has compiled the Best Places to Work in Virginia list in collaboration with Pennsylvania-based Best Companies Group. More than 200 companies applied for inclusion in the 2022 Best Places to Work in Virginia cohort. A hundred companies were chosen, divided into three categories: small [...]

Cutchin Powell is principal in charge at the Arlington office of Ryan LLC, which closes for a week’s summer break each year. Photo by Stephen Gosling
Jan 26, 2022

Gimme a break

Of all the company perks offered by Ryan LLC, the paid, weeklong summer break often tops the list of employee favorites. Summer break dates are announced ahead of time, and the whole company shuts down. Clients are notified that the international tax services and software provider’s employees will be off. The setup allows Ryan[...]

“If the employees are happy, everything is in a good place,” says Raj Kilaru, CEO of Ashburn-based Sriven Technologies. Photo by Will Schermerhorn
Jan 26, 2022

Happy place

Sriven Technologies LLC’s leader has a clear stance on the value of satisfied workers. “If all the employees are happy, everything is in a good place,” says Raj Kilaru, CEO of the Ashburn-based IT services company that works with retail, financial, insurance and health care clients. The company didn’t have any resignati[...]

The Virginia Beer Co. brewery is a popular hangout in the Edge District, the burgeoning restaurant and entertainment district where the York and James City county borders meet the city of Williamsburg. Photo by Mark Rhodes
Dec 31, 2021

Better together

“Cooperation” is a word Jim Noel uses a lot these days when speaking about the Greater Williamsburg region, which encompasses the city of Williamsburg and York and James City counties. As York County’s economic development director, Noel has watched as one of the most historically significant areas of the nation has wo[...]

The United Way of Southwest Virginia unveiled its Ready SWVA initiative to 150-plus local leaders at a Dec. 8, 2021, event. Photo courtesy United Way of Southwest Virginia
Dec 31, 2021

United Way launches child care initiative

The gap between the need for child care and its availability and accessibility is nearly three times higher than the state average in Southwest Virginia, where parents lack child care services for more than 7,000 children under age 5, according to a 2019 report from the Bipartisan Policy Center. Child care is not cost-effective [...]

UVA|NOVA Dean and CEO Gregory Fairchild is working on expanding U.Va.’s Northern Virginia presence. Photo courtesy Darden School of Business
Dec 31, 2021

UVA | NOVA plans signal major regional expansion

The University of Virginia has big plans for continued expansion in Northern Virginia, with more details to come early this year on where U.Va. will be developing new programs within the region. Negotiations with prospective partners were ongoing as of early December 2021, school officials said. The university’s expanded prese[...]

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