Confidence key to successful negotiations
By Judith Richards Why are employees leaving unclaimed value on the bargaining table? How can individuals increase the likelihood of achieving their negotiation goals? Negotiation skills in the workplace play an essential role in facilitating the sales process, resolving conflict and ensuring career success. Unfortunately, the majority of employees have not been exposed to formalized Read More →
Our view: Climate regulations would burden small businesses
President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Paris climate accords drew a swift rebuke from Gov. Jerry Brown, who declared the president “wrong on the facts and wrong on the science” before meeting with the president of China to promote Brown’s clean energy agenda. That the White House remains mum on the idea of Read More →
Dubroff: Pacific Coast Business Times takes civic duty seriously
As a journalist, and a mainstream journalist at that, I’m deeply concerned about the increasing hostility between our profession and the public. So, in an effort to demonstrate that journalists are also functioning members of society, I’m going to provide an update on the Pacific Coast Business Times and some of its civic efforts. On Read More →
Limoneira reports nearly triple net income for second quarter
Limoneira nearly tripled its second quarter net income compared to last year, with revenues that climbed to $35.4 million. Net income came to $3.54 million during the quarter ended April 30, compared to $1.22 million for the second quarter of 2016. Earnings per share rose to 24 cents, up from 8 cents for the same Read More →
Goleta-based Inogen exploring ways to increase sales
Goleta-based Inogen is exploring new avenues of growth in the oxygen concentrator market. Two of the company’s three co-founders — Brenton Taylor, executive vice president of engineering, and Byron Myers, executive vice president of sales and marketing — told members of the Santa Barbara Executive Roundtable on June 8 that Inogen is entertaining expansion ideas Read More →
Stellar Biotechnologies announces new hires
Port Hueneme immunotherapy developer Stellar Biotechnologies announced the expansion of its operations team, including new hires Liliana Marghitoiu, Luis Gonzalez Agraz and Kalam Azad. Marghitoiu will head up the company’s quality control department for protein processing and manufacturing. Azad will join Stellar’s senior aquaculture team, working with the giant keyhole limpets from which the company Read More →
SBCC president cuts college’s deficit, looks to future
Updated at 10:40 a.m. June 8: Santa Barbara City College President Anthony Beebe spent his first year on the job closing a $9 million budget gap and now he is looking for ways to preserve its No. 1 national ranking. In a state of the college talk to the Chamber of the Santa Barbara Region Read More →
