The Fed Radar Detects Uncertainty
Richard Moody is the chief economist at Regions Financial Corp. We spoke with him a few days after the March meeting of the Federal...
Madison County Takes The Spotlight in Aerospace and Technology
Madison County in north Alabama is one of the fastest growing counties in the Southeast and is home to a leading defense, aerospace and...
Shelia Jackson Does It All – Troy’s Diva
Troy tourism is her career, but singing is in her heart.
Technology – Business Incubation Through Technology
Gone is the image of the university as an ivory tower, that metaphoric turret where professors and researchers labor in isolation far removed from...
Freetextbooks.com – Taming The High Price of Textbooks
Thirty-year-old Jonathan Robinson, founder of Birmingham-based Freetextbooks.com, has always liked looking for and finding ways to make money. But his entrepreneurial nature didn’t lead...
CCS: Company-Customized Continuing Education
A well-trained work force is essential in today’s competitive business environment. But it’s always a challenge to find the best training at the right...
AU’s College of Business: The Roar of Entrepreneurs
Come one, come all — trendsetters, groundbreakers and changers of the status quo. Converging on the Plains this month are moderators, mentors, alumni and...
Asterisk Phone System: Riding Telecom’s First Waves
Youthful naïveté played to Mark Spencer’s advantage in 1999, when the 21-year-old, working out of his Auburn University dorm room, launched Asterisk — an...
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...
BP’s “Well from Hell” and a Very Big Class Action
April 20 is the fifth anniversary of the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, which began spewing over 200 million gallons of BP crude...