Guest commentary: What to watch for this holiday season
By Kris Batch The holidays are usually called the most wonderful time of the year, but they are also typically the most expensive time of the year. In a recent survey from Bankrate, 54% of respondents said they’d made an unplanned or impulse purchase during the last holiday season. Beyond purchasing gifts, many different expenses that Read More →
Patagonia report details its progress in fighting climate change
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Limoneira closes sale of its Chilean ranches for $15M
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Dubroff: Why Lee Cole remains a force in the avocado industry
Calavo CEO Lee Cole’s second retirement comes as the Santa Paula-based company’s board of directors is weighing a buyout offer and looking at other alternatives. It was just a few years ago that Cole, who built the modern Calavo into a world leader in distributing avocados, guacamole and fresh food distribution, stepped back into the Read More →
Our view: Central Coast’s season of giving has been going all year
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Santa Barbara tech firm has students’ cell phones in the bag
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Guest commentary: The geometry of organizations in the age of AI
By Gerhard Apfelthaler For decades, business leaders have sketched their organizations as pyramids. At the top: executives. At the bottom: workers. In the middle: layers of managers. Some variations reflected distinct values of national or organizational cultures — steep and hierarchical in some environments, or flat and collaborative in others — but the basic shape Read More →
