H. Lee Murphy

ShapeConnect, born just before the start of the pandemic, when networking came to a halt, virtually hooks up companies with professional services vendors.

A common assumption is that previously incarcerated people will be lucky to scratch for a living in menial jobs. These men are proving that wrong.

A recent Goldman Sachs poll found that private firms couldn’t compete with the retirement plans and medical care benefits offered by larger public companies. Not far behind was child care.

Harry Moser has been around long enough to see an idea he championed — “reshoring” global supply chains back to the U.S. — become embraced by a cost-conscious manufacturing industry. All it took was a pandemic to do it.

John Philbin, who’s spent years studying Generation Z, advises employers big and small on how to hire, and then motivate, young workers.

Beyond government and nonprofit workers, an army of legal experts has stepped in on a pro bono basis to help newly arrived asylum seekers get their bearings here in Chicago. Crain’s brings you closer to two of them.

The flood of impoverished migrants camping in Chicago awaiting government processing for asylum has put a roadblock up in front of a very different class of hopeful immigrants.

Dave Sloan retires after this year’s McCormick Place confab. In an exclusive chat with Crain’s, he reflects on how this car biz showpiece has changed — and how it’s kept Chicago on the industry’s global map.

“There is an elite group of people around the world willing to travel anywhere to see Shakespeare well done.”

Plenty of companies around Chicago talk, or at least dream, grandiosely about global expansion. Many never make it. This one did.