Baton Rouge Business Report

How do you handle customer complaints and turn negative experiences into positive ones? How do you keep your team motivated to deliver excellent customer service consistently? And how important i...

https://www.businessreport.com/events/lee-michaels-president-scott-berg-shares-customer-service-secrets-on-the-june-episode-of-strictly-business

A recently released report suggests the gloom surrounding mergers and acquisitions could clear by the end of the year, Inc. reports.  M&A proposals have taken a hit because of inflation, with M&...

https://www.businessreport.com/article/heres-why-mergers-and-acquisitions-could-see-a-rebound-by-years-end

The U.S. opposes a proposed global wealth tax on billionaires, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen says, rejecting an idea floated by Brazil, France and other nations to tip the economic scales away ...

https://www.businessreport.com/article/a-global-tax-on-billionaires-us-says-its-not-a-good-idea

On Wednesday, the Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee will consider a bill that would overhaul how and when employers are liable for penalties and punitive fees in workers’ compensa...

https://www.businessreport.com/article/bill-overhauling-workers-compensation-system-to-be-considered-wednesday

Money owed: The University of Louisiana at Lafayette is owed more than $30,000 from the now-defunct Arena Football League’s Louisiana Voodoo that was supposed to play in Blackham Coliseum. The ...

https://www.businessreport.com/article/roundup-louisiana-voodoo-cabl-hurricane-season

Initial unemployment insurance claims in Louisiana spiked during the second week of May, increasing nearly 40% from the week prior, according to figures released by the Louisiana Workforce Commis...

https://www.businessreport.com/article/see-the-latest-unemployment-numbers-for-louisiana

  U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson of Shreveport announced his Republican picks for Louisiana’s fall congressional elections, but the endorsements are complicated, USA Today Network reports.  ...

https://www.businessreport.com/article/house-speaker-johnson-may-need-to-revise-louisiana-congressional-picks

When Tessa Holloway was approached in 2006 to purchase a child care center in Port Allen, she was a manager at Blockbuster with no experience in early learning. She had two sons, a husband who be...

https://www.businessreport.com/article/meet-tessa-holloway-an-influential-woman-in-business

The professional world can be a challenging place if your personal brand has fallen out of date.  But keeping your personal brand current is about more than maintaining your social media profile...

https://www.businessreport.com/article/heres-how-to-refresh-your-personal-brand

The U.S. has added nearly 5 million housing units since 2020—the most since 2007—making a housing shortage seem surmountable in much of the nation, Stateline reports. Even so, more homes need...

https://www.businessreport.com/article/is-a-recent-housing-boom-easing-the-shortage