How to Protect Your Organization from Ransomware
The latest ransomware is sophisticated and hard to spot. These five strategies can help ward off cyberattacks.
Biz Expert Advice
5 Steps to Doing More with Less
In lean times, simple strategies can help your team get focused and productive.
How to Foster an Ownership Mindset Within Your Team
Companies thrive when they give employees decision-making power and share the profits with them.
Strategic Plans Are Scrutinized for DE&I and ESG Policies. Would Yours Stand Up?
Investors, consumers and employees want to see diversity & inclusion and efforts to stop climate change. A well-designed plan is crucial.
5 Steps to Keeping Your Marketing Local, Even When Headquarters Is Not
Hitting corporate numbers while keeping products and services authentic for Hawai‘i customers can be an art form.
Here Are 5 Ways That Small Businesses Get Sued. Would Your Insurance Plan Protect You?
Without the right coverage, crashes, hacks and honest mistakes can leave you vulnerable.
How and Why This Central Pacific Bank Executive Mentors Others
Kisan Jo, the former president of Prince Resorts Hawaii, mentors to encourage new ideas in his employees and he in turn gains new perspectives.
Tattoos in the Workplace Are an Evolving Issue in Hawai‘i
We talked with lawyers, companies, a tattoo artist and other people about what can be prohibited and what should be allowed.
5 Steps to Building DEI
What you can do to build diversity, equity and inclusion into your company’s culture and hiring practices.
How 4 Hawai‘i CEOs Make Decisions
The leaders of Servco, Hawai‘i Community Foundation, Hawaiian Electric Industries and Wilson Care Group provide good advice on how to prepare for difficult situations and make good judgments.
Sages Over 70 (2021)
Six kūpuna whose passion, drive and wisdom have made a lasting difference in Hawai‘i for many decades.
5 First Steps to Expanding Your Business
Lisa Miller, an entrepreneurial strategist at Business Consulting Resources, says these five indicators will help you decide.
Environment, Social Justice, Governance and Your Business: What You Need to Know
Hawaiian Electric Industries CEO Connie Lau explains what these topics mean for your business.
IT Strategies that Empower Long-Term Hybrid Work
This Month’s Expert: Doug Shimokawa, Senior VP, Pacxa
Commercial vs. Personal Auto Insurance for Business Owners
Using your car for work? Choose your insurance coverage wisely. Kevin Kurosu of First Insurance Co. of Hawaii explains when business owners need commercial coverage instead of personal auto insurance.
Talk Story Interview with Mike Wysocki
Maui-based Mike Wysocki never thought his undergraduate degree in sociology would lead him to a long and successful career in tech security sales.
Culture as a Key to Strong Performance in Turbulent Times
Peter Drucker, one of the most influential business thinkers of the 20th century, said, “Culture eats strategy for breakfast.”
5 Steps to Secure Holiday E-Commerce
The pandemic will drive a lot of 2020 holiday shopping online, presenting new opportunities for cyber-attackers.
5 Steps to Biki Commutes
Biki, Honolulu's bike-share program, offers a healthy way to commute, says Todd Boulanger, executive director of Bikeshare Hawaii.
Going, Going, But Not Yet Gone: Gender Bias in Family Businesses
Gender bias still exists within the leadership of many local family businesses, but its hold slips as new generations take over.
Risk Transfer in the Construction Business
Got subcontractors? What you need to know about contractual risk transfer.
Talk Story: John Leong, CEO of Kupu and Pono Pacific and an Obama Foundation Fellow
Leong leads two organizations: Pono Pacific, a company that helps manage natural resources for landowners and conservation managers, with a focus on sustainability; and Kupu, a youth-empowerment nonprofit with conservation, culinary and other programs. He believes Hawai‘i is an ideal…
Hawai‘i Doctors Talk About Diagnostic Breakthroughs and Practicing in a Pandemic
While the ever-changing nature of COVID-19 has proven frustrating around the world, it's also the challenge that infectious disease specialists have been training for their entire career.