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Strategy in Business – The Business of the Big Event

One similarity between business and golf is the importance of having a strategic plan. Professional golfers don’t simply wander onto the course and begin...

The Farmer’s Chief Executive

Jimmy Parnell grew up knowing what it meant to work literally until the cows came home. As a child at his family’s Chilton County...

Brewery: Craft Beer Rolls Over the State Line

Like a frothy draft creeping over the edge of a cold mug, Alabama’s fledgling brewery business is beginning to expand beyond the confines of...

Analytics In Business: Lessons in Real World Big Data

There is a scene in the movie “Moneyball” — about the Oakland Athletics’ innovative plan in the early 2000s to use advanced analytics to...

UAB and Southern Research: Partnership to Speed Ideas to Applications

Frequent collaborators UAB and Southern Research are teaming up once again, this time with a partnership that will attempt to tap into the lucrative...

Economic Development in Big Business: Growing Up with the Job

In many ways, economic development work is all about the numbers — tax rates, property prices, wage averages, financial incentives. At some point in...

The Locker Room: Retail Legend on the Strip

Alex Gatewood looked a lot like a typical University of Alabama student when he drove into Tuscaloosa in 1964 pulling a U-Haul and seeking...

Biofuel: The Farmer’s Alchemist To Stop Waste of Biomass

There’s oil in them there … corn cobs? A Tuscaloosa-based company certainly thinks so. Inventure Renewables has created a process to take basic waste biomass,...

Talladega Updates to Stadium Tailored to a Fast Changing Market

After more than a decade of rapid growth, NASCAR is no longer living life in the fast lane. Since 2005, attendance has dropped approximately...

Life’s Time Capsule App (LTC App): Family Archive App

A group in Alabama is giving the old photo album and scrapbook a digital makeover with the creation of Life’s Time Capsule, a mobile...

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