Ingram's Magazine: April 2021
Ingram's April 2021 Digital Edition
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Not that we’re prepared to buy into certain social scientists’ parsing of generational differences, but if you go by some measures—including the ones bent on compressing designations of a “generation” to as few as 15 years—then this year would mark…
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Insurance executives say the expected higher costs of a pandemic, and the feared run-up in demand for treatments, has been muted . . . so far. A year ago, America’s health-care system shuddered with expectations of crushing demand from…
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JOSH ALLISON Team Driveaway had a problem: A Fortune 100 client with 5,000 locations in its network—representing one-fourth of the logistics company’s annual revenues at the time—was threatening to walk. So the leadership turned to Josh Allison to make things…
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Alumnus of the Year: Kevin Barth, Commerce Bank A former boss once called Kevin Barth “the role model for aspiring executives.” So the funny thing about Barth’s path to the top of Commerce Bank Kansas City is that he…
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Despite change, agribusiness retains its unique position in Kansas City’s economy. On the surface, it might appear that agribusiness has been easing its grip on the broader economy of the Kansas City region in recent years. There are good…
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There's more to ownership of farmland than the potential for financial gain; it's an asset with a history and a legacy. Having grown up on a farm in western Kansas, I was privileged to experience what most farm kids…
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In business, it helps to get others to match your sense of what’s most important. Picture a rabbit on fire running at you. What would you do? My Kansas wheat-farming parents did a controlled burn on their farmland…
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Most February economic data, released in March, was weaker than expected, probably because economists were more focused on stimulus checks than the weather. But considering how much of the country was affected by extreme cold and storms in February there’s…
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