Leading the Alabama Publics League
Jeffry Rosenthal is CEO and president of Hibbett Sports Inc., one of the best performing companies on our annual ranking of Alabama...
Women on the Front Line
Just turn on the TV and there are the female lawyers in skimpy skirts and sky-high heels, more concerned with their messy...
Stocks Volatile on Fed Moves and Euro Debt
Wall Street started off June with weak jobs numbers, and the Commerce Department released a first quarter economic growth report that was...
Tales of a Serial Entrepreneur
Once you know Jim Corman’s story, it is easy imagine him as George Bailey, the character played by James Stewart in...
Spotlight on Covington, Butler & Crenshaw counties
Covington, Butler and Crenshaw counties, located in southeast Alabama, are former textile-producing areas that endured hard times when that industry...
Martin Marietta's Mad Men Blitz Kiboshed
In the spring of 2010, Vulcan Materials Inc. CEO Don James was seriously studying the next big deal—a merger by the Birmingham-based...
Top Dollar Jury Awards
1. Mannsfeld v. Ineos Americas LLC, et al Most people—on a good day—might be lucky to get a penny for their...
Roy Moore's Second Coming
A look back at the “Business & Politics” column in the July 2000 issue of Business Alabama is an exercise in eternal recurrence....
$2 Billion Chump Change
News in May that J.P. Morgan dropped more than $2 billion in a derivatives trade made headlines, stirred Congressional committee hearings—Harrumph! Harrumph!—and...
The Value of a Company Plane
On July 9, 2007 then-Sen. Barack Obama stepped off a Gulfstream jet onto the runway tarmac to kick off the Alabama portion...