Will and Darmayne Robertson are the couple behind Sweet Confections Cakes in Lower Paxton Township. Business is growing.

Being absent affects achievement in workplaces at all levels, just as it did for Claudia Williams in her high school math class.

Amanda Ridgway has a goal of running a real estate company with up to 35 agents — five times her company's current size.

This year's annual Women of Influence awards, coming up in June, give our community of women leaders one extra reason to celebrate: the inaugural Circle of Excellence awards.

Central Penn Business Journal and its sister news organizations, Central Penn Parent and Lehigh Valley Business, have named a new associate publisher/editorial director.

The Lancaster County Career & Technology Foundation, a nonprofit organization that supports the Lancaster County Career & Technology Center, has a new leader.

Carolynn Doerr launched her Caring Transitions business in 2015 with a mantra of “failure is not an option.” Three years later, her mantra was put to the test when learned she had a rare form of cancer.

Laura Deitch, 36, opened Mechanicsburg Pure Barre more than two years ago after falling in love with the discipline in New York City, where she worked in public relations and communications. She also teaches classes in the studio, and plans to open a second location later this year.

During National Small Business Week May 5-11, we recognize the hard work, risk and resilience of the more than 25 small business tenants in Smith Land's Central Pennsylvania portfolio of plazas.

When a family business thrives under second-generation ownership, the secret to success is in the foundation laid by the first generation. Here are seven lessons my parents taught me that I carry with me as the leader of our family business:

Dauphin County wedding and specialty-cake bakery Sweet Confections Cakes has moved to a larger location in Lower Paxton Township.

The marketing director of a York County line painting and traffic control products company is organizing a new southcentral Pennsylvania chapter for the National Association of Women in Construction.

Loni Burdis Smith has been named the first CEO of Hanover Auto Team, but she is not the first woman in her family to take the helm of the company. Smith, the daughter of owner John J. Burdis, became CEO on Jan. 1, a new role designed to help manage the company, which includes six ...

There are many causes of the gap, like discrimination and a lack of family-friendly policies. But recently, mounting evidence has led economists and sociologists to converge on a major driver — one that ostensibly has nothing to do with gender.

Former McNees, Wallace & Nurick attorneys Ann Levin and Anthony Hoover have joined forces to create their own niche family law firm.