Real Estate Summit
Improvements in the commercial real estate picture within the past year have inspired the theme of “Engage!” for ACREcon, Alabama’s statewide commercial real estate...
Putting on a Show in the Showroom
Janet Holcomb has built a booming business based on the fact that 85 percent of women wear the incorrect bra size. Her lingerie store,...
Doctor Visits and Affordable Healthcare
There have been ups and downs during his long health care career, but Dr. Bruce Irwin is exactly where he wants to be right...
Launch Funding for Innovative Companies
Alabama sees the value in funding innovative and creative companies. The development of these companies, as well as enticing them to stay in the...
Businesses and the Creativity and Innovation Behind Them
It was the need for creativity — for something new — that resulted in the U.S. Navy’s Littoral Combat Ship (LCS), which is built...
Creative Investment Management
Like most executives’ offices, David Bronner’s is equipped with all the necessary supplies to get him through a typical workday, which in Bronner’s case...
Busby Builds his Company
If Jim Busby were to write a book, it might be called “How to tinker your way onto the New York Stock Exchange.”
While the...
Ah-oo-gah and Other Alabama Greats
Robert Van de Graaff demonstrates a 1.5 million-volt electrostatic generator at an alumni dinner in a ballroom at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1933.
Robert...
Full Throttle Innovation
Montgomery-based Knox Kershaw Inc. (KKI), a respected manufacturer of railroad track maintenance equipment, has a long history of innovation and deep roots in the...
Ideas From Alabama Edisons
Virtually everything we consider essential to daily life started with an idea. There’s a fine line between crazy and ingenious, yet some of the...