Anne Miller

Already, this year looks as complex as 2022. Rates rising, inflation cooling, the debt ceiling looming, recession imminent, and labor markets mixed. Key for corporate finance leaders will be anticipating which economic forces are ascendant and which are waning.
Bank of the West Chief Economist Scott Anderson says there are trends emerging that finance teams should focus on to succeed in the months ahead. Read his thoughts in this first installment of our series What’s Next in 2023.
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Most companies suffer during downturns, but a small minority actually get stronger. The difference is these companies focus on growing revenue, not just cutting costs. Andy Byrne, chief executive officer of Clari, a leading revenue platform, believes business leaders would be better off paying closer attention to revenue and looking for ways to protect and bolster it amid today’s market and economic turbulence. The challenge? Those who lack clear visibility across their operations may focus m...

The bad business news keeps rolling in. Dramatic stock slides. Federal Reserve interest rate bumps. Inflation talk. Recession talk. Your third cousin once removed who never reads the business pages chatting you up at a family barbeque about the crypto crash.
“The five biggest tech companies have shed nearly $2.6 trillion. That is a decline of 26 percent, twice the drop in the Dow Jones Industrial Average,” the Financial Times noted in May.
If you’re losing sleep about what this means for your...

As the leader in Revenue, many CEOs, CROs and investors are reaching out to us, asking for guidance on how to best navigate these uncertain times. Most business leaders are worried about macroeconomic uncertainty. Some—like Lloyd Blankfein, Goldman's former CEO and current senior chairman—are even seeing a “very, very high risk” of a recession. And as an experienced Revenue leader myself (having lived through the .COM crash in ‘02/’03 and the Global Financial Crisis in ‘07/’08) I have a lot o...

When a powerful earthquake struck near the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince in 2010 — killing more than 220,000 people, injuring more than 300,000 and rendering some 1.5 million homeless — Conor Shapiro was only two weeks into his new job as the director of Health Equity International’s St. Boniface Hospital in a rural area about three hours away.
Hospitals and clinics in the capital had crumbled, making HEI, then known as the St. Boniface Haiti Foundation, a key national medical facility de...

The CRC helps thousands of families and distributes tens of millions of dollars in aid every year, but every broken laptop, vacation request and address change had to be handled one email at a time — until the CRC found Refined.

Self-driving cars could not safely operate in Manhattan right now for a number of reasons, but one in particular is putting on the brakes: Today’s wireless network can’t support them. It’s annoying for a phone call to drop on a busy city street; it’s downright dangerous for an autonomous car’s system to take more than a second to connect to the algorithms that judge if an oncoming vehicle poses a threat.
Ensuring the safety of self-driving cars is just one way the small but growing 5G network...

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The doctor sketched a rough outline of my reproductive organs and nearby anatomy as she talked. The black lines on white paper seemed so sparse, when in reality they represented our hopes for the future. My husband and I had a healthy, smart, sassy, thriving preschooler; but we wanted another child. And with the relative ease of our first pregnancy — three months of trying followed by a clockwork 40 weeks (and three days) of pregnancy — we assumed the second would come easily.
Instead, ...

On the 34th floor of an iconic Park Avenue skyscraper in Manhattan, assistant chief engineer Ryan Fletcher gestures to a red metal wheel that he turns to move the building’s sprawling fan system from heating to cooling, pending the season. It’s an old-school wheel that complements the cage-like metal around the freight elevator, which serves as the main access to the floor.
But across from that same elevator lies the key to modernization for the Rudin Management real estate firm, founded in 1...

Can a transit app save babies’ lives? Columbus, Ohio will soon find out.
The infant mortality rate in South Linden, one of the city’s poorest neighborhoods, is about four times the national average, reports City Lab.
Travel times to distant doctors’ offices are an obstacle, especially when pregnant women don’t own cars, can’t afford taxis, and have young children in tow (a public service that provides transportation to prenatal appointments for low-income women won’t take soon-to-be-siblings)...

When an English apartment tower went up in flames last year, survivors scrambled to understand their rights and access services in the aftermath. Misinformation circulated on social media, Legal Futures UK reported. People who lost everything when the Grenfell Tower burned then struggled to navigate the sometimes daunting bureaucracy required to find help and support.
Enter the Legal Hackers. A Scottish chapter of the international group staged a hackathon to create an app aimed at helping vi...

Homosexuality is illegal in Zimbabwe, and a reason for social ostracism, like a teacher who recently came out of the closet — and promptly lost his job — found out the hard way.
Even the internet isn’t always a safe place to gather and find community for LGBT and similarly disenfranchised groups, not when IP addresses can be tracked and government surveillance is a known entity. Unless, of course, you know how to take certain precautions.
Tawanda Mugari called it his “passion and love” to tea...

Kai Frazier sold her house and her car, and moved across country—from the nation’s capital to Oakland, California—on a virtual reality (VR) mission.
As a teacher, Frazier wrangled students whose grade-school classroom might be 30 minutes from downtown Washington, D.C, but they had never seen the Smithsonian museums. That’s what happens in low-income school districts, Frazier explains, where neither schools nor families have money to pay for buses and lunches, and parents can’t afford to take ...

A job, an apartment, a car loan—with a criminal record, many basics of modern life are out of reach, especially when you have to check a box on an application asking about past convictions.
In California, state law allows records to be sealed after time served for certain convictions (typically non-violent, more minor offenses, and offenses committed by juveniles). Such requests often take months, if not years, to work through the system, and require hours of in-person time on weekdays. That’...