Rochester Business Journal

Big tech firms increasingly agree that smart glasses will be the go-to device for consumers to interact with AI. Yet, putting these devices on millions of users relies on fixing a massive engineering riddle: How do you turn a transparent glass lens into a digital display screen without ruining its clarity? Smith Displays’ compact display demonstrator at Photonics West 2026.

For years, we’ve been handed a choice in business: Do you want to make money, or do you want to make a difference? I think that’s the wrong question. A good business should do both. In fact, I’d argue that profit and purpose don’t just coexist. They need each other. Profit without purpose can become empty. Purpose without profit can become extinct. And neither one does much good for the community.

Christopher Aebli, a longtime L3Harris Technologies executive based in Rochester, has been appointed president of the company’s Communications & Spectrum Dominance segment as part of a broader leadership transition at the aerospace and defense company. Chris Aebli Aebli, who joined L3Harris in 1991, most recently served as president of Mission Critical Communications. His new role is effective immediately.

Key takeaways: 54 students graduated from the Golisano Institute for Business & Entrepreneurship on Aug. 14, including 10 graduates from the inaugural AI & Business program. About 85% of the graduates have secured business employment or launched businesses by graduation. Tom Golisano launched the institute in 2023, and the school is now graduating its first AI & Business cohort while preparing to open its second campus in Buffalo.

This summer’s epic blockbuster movie, “The Odyssey,” is setting attendance records at the box office. Nearly three thousand years since the Greek poet Homer penned the epic poem it still resonates today. I believe it is not because of its monsters or its gods, but because of a message stitched into its very structure: that the journey home, how ever long and battered, is worth the suffering. Odysseus is not a hero defined by conquest, but by endurance.

Middle-market companies are continuing to invest in growth and competitiveness despite persistent uncertainty about the U.S. economy, according to KeyBank‘s latest Middle Market Sentiment Report. For the second consecutive survey, 77% of executives rated their companies’ financial outlook as excellent or very good. By comparison, confidence in the broader U.S. economy remained relatively flat at 51%.

How has the widespread adoption of remote work following the COVID-19 pandemic altered the economic structure of U.S. cities? This question has significant policy implications not only for city officials but also for employers, employees, and childcare providers across the U.S. New research by Ferdinando Monte, Charly Porcher, and Esteban Rossi-Hansberg sheds valuable light on this question.

CNY Feeds, New York’s largest independent dairy feed mill, has broken ground on a new feed blending facility in Avon, marking the company’s first geographic expansion in its 35-year history. The Livingston County project represents the Bitz family’s largest capital investment in its nearly 200-year history in New York agriculture. Construction is expected to continue through 2026, with the facility slated to begin serving dairy farms in summer 2027.

The Bountiful Table’s 6th Annual Charity Golf Tournament Benefitting: The Bountiful Table, Inc.

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