Tag: Best & Worst States for Business

The best place to do business in the United States is Texas, followed by No. 2 Florida and, in a tie, No. 3 North Carolina and South Carolina, according to Chief Executive’s 2018 “Best and Worst States for Business.”

Every CEO knows that if you want to find America’s best and brightest, you’ve got to move to a big coastal city, right? Wrong. Two of the nation’s top demographers arrive at a very different conclusion.

Rhode Island and Michigan gained the most from last year's Best and Worst States for Business ranking.

Approximately 74 percent of millennials in the Bay Area are currently considering leaving Silicon Valley, according to the Urban Land Institute. Why this shouldn't be a surprise.

Here are five states that should interest readers of Chief Executive.  

California and Illinois were the two worst states in this year’s Chief Executive Best and Worst States for Business ranking.

Thanks to manufacturing investments and its steady flourishing of its digital capabilities, Alabama continued its climb up the ranks of the Chief Executive Best States and Worst States for Business rankings.

Florida's Orlando region is becoming a hub of optics technology and advanced manufacturing, along with outgrowths of a factory footprint that already was pretty formidable.

New Hampshire performed well in the 2018 Chief Executive “Best States / Worst States for Business” and had the best showing by far among the New England states.

The Research Triangle in North Carolina is a major reason why the state has been one of Chief Executive’s highest ranking “Best and Worst States for Business” for many years.