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The long game is a proven winner
JOHN CAMPANELLI - Back in May, MetroHealth CEO Dr. Akram Boutros stopped by Crain's newsroom to reveal plans for a complete transformation of the health system's main campus on West 25th Street.Dr....
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Embracing a not-so-Hallmark holiday
JOHN CAMPANELLI - It's easy to view contrived celebration days — sometimes called “Hallmark holidays” — with rolling eyes. Grandparents Day, Administrative Professionals Day, National Boss Day, even...
View ArticleJohn Campanelli's blog: Creating new ways to teach
JOHN CAMPANELLI - Six years ago, Stephanie Lammlein was a biology teacher at Rootstown High School, teaching and inspiring Portage County students about science by injecting the real world into her...
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'Yes, women workers do present problems, Joe'
JOHN CAMPANELLI - It’s important for all of us to focus on – and work to change -- the challenges faced by women in business: lower pay, relatively few women in management, sexual harassment and more....
View ArticleJohn Campanelli's blog: Trophy isn't only thing raised by title
JOHN CAMPANELLI - It’s been a week since the Buckeyes — led by an untackle-able backup quarterback from Cleveland — shocked the sports world and raised the new college-playoff championship trophy. This...
View ArticleJohn Campanelli's blog: A speech that hit it out of the park
JOHN CAMPANELLI - Until last June, Cleveland Indians manager Terry Francona was 8-0 in the big games. He's now 9-0. As manager of the Boston Red Sox, Francona twice swept opponents in the World Series....
View ArticleJohn Campanelli's blog: Staying afloat in a sea of email
JOHN CAMPANELLI - I just checked my phone, and as I type this, I have 272 unopened emails. Almost all of those are junk: rental-car offers, Groupons for gun ranges and LinkedIn requests from unusually...
View ArticlePublisher John Campanelli's column: The colorful legacy of the Gay Games
JOHN CAMPANELLI - Last August's Gay Games — like the sun, sandals and margaritas of summer — seem so long ago. But for Nigel Jarvis, the Gay Games in Cleveland are really just starting. Jarvis is a...
View ArticleJohn Campanelli's blog: Creativity flourishes in diverse groups
JOHN CAMPANELLI - It's not easy to become a venture capitalist. You'll likely need most, if not all, of the following: access to fat stacks of cash; a degree from a top-shelf business school; a Rolodex...
View ArticleJohn Campanelli's blog: City needs to be a better business partner
JOHN CAMPANELLI - There's a great story unfolding on the 31st floor of 200 Public Square. At a clip of about eight new employees a month, Gabriel Partners is filling cubicles and adding good-paying,...
View ArticleJohn Campanelli's blog: Browns are sore spot for Cleveland
JOHN CAMPANELLI - The second phase of the “modernization project” at FirstEnergy Stadium is underway. When the Browns kick off in the fall, fans will see new graphics around the stadium and upgrades to...
View ArticleA next-gen approach to entrepreneurship
JOHN CAMPANELLI - Jim Clifton is out to create a new Juilliard in Cleveland. Instead of music prodigies, this one would be a Juilliard of jobs, focusing on a different kind of genius: the entrepreneur....
View ArticleLooking to the city for inspiration
JOHN CAMPANELLI - Some of America's great brands have numbers as part of their names: 7UP, V8, 9Lives, Formula 409, 7-Eleven. Others are crafty enough to place a number on the end of their name as a...
View ArticleBlending learning and technology
JOHN CAMPANELLI - If two or three hall-of-fame business leaders copy-and-pasted their accomplishments into a single document, you'd have Rob Briggs' résumé: Air Force veteran, longtime CEO at...
View ArticleHere's your Brando business translator
JOHN CAMPANELLI - My son is almost 15 and, on most days, he's more adult than child, so my wife and I recently decided he was ready for an important rite of passage. He was ready to watch “The...
View ArticleCleveland needs a thicker skin
JOHN CAMPANELLI - Last week, Boston Globe columnist Dan Shaughnessy, in town for the Cavs-Celtics series, turned his watch back 40 years and wrote a column bashing Cleveland. You might have heard about...
View ArticleSometimes a walk can be work
JOHN CAMPANELLI - Back in the early 1990s when I was a struggling student cartoonist at Ohio State (struggling mostly because I could hardly draw), I got to sit in on a talk by Cincinnati Enquirer...
View ArticleOhio could be going up in smoke
JOHN CAMPANELLI - A couple weeks ago, representatives from ResponsibleOhio, the marijuana-legalization ballot initiative, stopped by the Crain's Cleveland Business newsroom.(One colleague suggested we...
View ArticleCrain's is no longer stuck in 2008
John Campanelli - It's called “distracted walking.” People, with their eyes glued down to their smartphones, are apparently walking into poles, trees and each other at alarming rates in cities around...
View ArticleA creative thinking brainstorm
John Campanelli - A couple weeks back, I wrote about the importance — and difficulty — of finding time for the crucial task of strategic thinking. I asked for your advice on how you do your...
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Crain's Akron is a big, worthwhile step
John Campanelli - The distance between Cleveland and Akron is about 40 miles. For some people, it may as well be 400. These are the Cleveland people who never think about Akron, or if they do it's as...
View ArticleWhen excitement becomes obsession
John Campanelli - Wile E. Coyote caught the Road Runner once. It happened in “Soup or Sonic,” an animated short made in 1980, years after Warner Brothers' best work. At the end of the cartoon, Coyote...
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A Doomsday Clock for Cleveland's curse
John Campanelli - The Doomsday Clock. What a concept. When the clock strikes midnight, the world is obliterated, whether in nuclear war or “unchecked climate change.” The Doomsday Clock is the...
View ArticleIt's time to embrace the makers
John Campanelli - Last Saturday, I did a few things I've never done before. I spent about 20 minutes learning to be a DJ, scratching vinyl — nowhere close to the beat — to old-school rap songs on...
View ArticleThe real power of LeBron James
John Campanelli - I go back and read LeBron James’ “I’m Coming Home” Sports Illustrated essay pretty regularly. I carry a copy in my wallet as if it were a historic document, because I believe it...
View ArticleAppreciating the bigger picture
John Campanelli - Two decades ago, I worked nights with a veteran newspaper editor who often told the same joke as we searched the wires for articles to fill the news holes that popped up between...
View ArticleGathering up some odds and ends ...
John Campanelli - MARK YOUR CALENDARS — We are less than a month away from Ohio's first “sales tax holiday.” From Friday, Aug. 7, through Sunday, Aug. 9, shoppers in Ohio won't pay sales tax on...
View ArticleWisdom comes from many places
John Campanelli - Someday I want to open my own business, a small egg farm maybe or a microbrewery — or a combination of the two. “Eggs and a Keg,” I’ll call it. If that ever happens, I figure I’ll...
View ArticleWeed: Real industry, real news
John Campanelli - It was just before noon when I got Noelle Skodzinski on the phone last week. She'd spent the morning doing what editors in the news business do these days: searching news feeds,...
View ArticleBeer doesn't belong at Buckeyes games
John Campanelli - Coach John Cooper and I arrived on Ohio State's campus in 1988. Five (or so) years later, I had a degree, a wonderful fiancé ... and zero wins against Michigan. Those were rough...
View ArticleMake sure to notice pivot opportunities
John Campanelli - Lonnie Johnson, a nuclear and aerospace engineer, loved to tinker at home while his wife and kids slept. One night in 1982, after his day job at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in...
View ArticleDon't let fear control your life
John Campanelli - It was after hours on a weekday a few years ago when my publisher called me into his office. We were at a small trade newspaper, covering a niche industry. I was the editor,...
View ArticleStaying strong in time of weakness
John Campanelli - The mailman must have seen the out-of-state plates, or maybe he just wanted to break up the monotony of his route along one of Ann Arbor's quiet residential streets. Regardless, he...
View ArticleEmbracing science, not food labeling
John Campanelli - With The Donald grabbing so much attention over the summer, you might have missed the news of the U.S. House passing something called the “Safe and Accurate Food Labeling Act of...
View ArticleA look into the political crystal ball
John Campanelli - This month marks 37 years since President Jimmy Carter signed the Airline Deregulation Act. How did that work out? Instead of looking back, maybe it's best to look forward and play a...
View ArticleCyber hackers think big, and so should you
John Campanelli - Credit card numbers are small potatoes. Big-time computer hackers are after proprietary information: source code, pharmaceutical research, legal documents, chemical formulas,...
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Republican National Convention will need everyone's help
John Campanelli - We are now less than nine months until the Republican National Convention in Cleveland. Like parents readying a nursery, swarms of workers in yellow vests are buzzing around...
View ArticleUber is a way of life for young professionals
John Campanelli - It’s tough to talk to Soo Mee Yoon and not be envious. She’s in her mid-20s, lives downtown, works for the Cavaliers and, as a foodie, enjoys her nights out eating from the...
View ArticleIt's not just spin: Cleveland seen in different light
John Campanelli - Rick Batyko knows, perhaps more than anyone, what people outside of Cleveland think about Cleveland. He is head of Cleveland Plus, the regional marketing campaign that, among other...
View ArticleBrowns' worst result could be next: Apathy
John Campanelli - Back in the spring, in the midst of another circus of an offseason, I wrote a column about how I believed the Browns were becoming a blight on Cleveland. Despite two rounds of...
View ArticleBook it: College textbook costs must drop
John Campanelli - The sixth edition of “Essentials of Statistics for Business and Economics” appears to be a pretty decent textbook for undergraduate business students getting their first taste of...
View ArticleThere's still hope for the B+ Cleveland kid
John Campanelli - You know the story, because the media loves to tell it: A kid from the ’hood overcomes the odds, graduates from the struggling public school system, gets into a great college, works...
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