Vol. 36 No. 5, May 2016
Index
- Time to pay up: as part of this month's focus on higher education, guest columnist Paul Fulton explains his passion for improving North Carolina's colleges and universities.
- Burlington's bounce: the historic Alamance County textile town keeps reinventing itself, bolstered by a family business turned global giant.
- More talk than action: businesses condemn lawmakers for creating a firestorm over potty policies while funding their campaigns.
- Assessing health care: public policy, personal habits and changing demographics make providing health care in North Carolina a complex process.
- What's the alternative?
- Day in the life.
- Stealing home: Ted Parker put $12 million into his dream home. Someone seeking tranquility and 10 bathrooms will pay a lot less.
- Crash buddy: marketer moves from burgers to body shops as he helps steer Charlotte's Driven Brands through a major growth spurt.
- Clearing the ice: PNC Arena's operators face decisions on how to remake a building with its key tenant, the Carolina Hurricanes, influx.
- A monthly snapshot of North Carolina's economy.
- Under pressure.
- AAlPharma Services/Cambridge Major Laboratories rebranded as Alcami.
- East Carolina University wants to prove it can keep up with the big boys of college sports, announcing plans for a $55 million renovation to Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium.
- Jack Barto will retire as CEO of New Hanover Regional Medical Center by June 2017.
- Nexans.
- Nicholasville, Ky.-based R.J. Corman Railroad Group began rail service from here to Myrtle Beach, S.C.
- Paul Townend was named associate vice chancellor and dean of undergraduate studies at UNC Wilmington.
- UNC Health Care.
- New prescription.
- Braeburn Pharmaceuticals.
- Envisia Therapeutics.
- Lewis Myers was named interim CEO of Downtown Durham, an organization started in 1993 to promote revitalization and business development in the city's urban center.
- Red Hat.
- Research Triangle Regional Partnership.
- Self-Help Credit Union.
- Three Ships.
- Xerox.
- Looming success.
- Barbara Duck will become chief information officer of BB&T.
- Hanesbrands.
- Hatteras Financial.
- Members Credit Union.
- Patrick Pritchard was promoted to executive vice president and senior operations officer, a newly created position, at BNC Bancorp, parent of Bank of North Carolina.
- Triad Financial Advisors.
- Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center.
- Wake Forest Innovation Quarter.
- Jukebox record.
- Ally Financial.
- Bank of America.
- Crescent Communities and Lincoln Harris announced a 1,300-acre development in southwest Charlotte that could include up to 4,000 apartments and houses, 8 million square feet of offices and 500,000 square feet of retail and restaurant space.
- Duke Energy.
- ImagineSoftware.
- The Cabarrus Regional Chamber of Commerce.
- Tuscarora Yarns.
- Family tradition.
- Climate exchange.
- Deschutes Brewery.
- HomeTrust Bancshares.
- UNC Asheville.
- Barnyard biotech: commercialized research helps farmers, including detecting and treating an infection that stifles milk production in dairy cows.
- Tasty teachings.
- Cultivating safety: the federal Food Safety Modernization Act secures the food supply from field to plate but not without significant changes.
- Bull market.
- Bid winner.
- Square footage.
- Wake Forest University family business center: 2016 North Carolina Family Business of the Year Award winners.
- Classy choices: North Carolina's college system is as diverse as it is large, from a school founded for American Indians to its flagship campus in Chapel Hill.
- Dubois days: UNC Charlotte has grown enrollment by 35% and added eight doctoral programs during Chancellor Philip Dubois' decade on the job.
- Short stopper: a former electrician hopes his company's innovative circuit breakers can light up UNC Charlotte's reputation as a tech hotbed.
- Coming home: Robin Cummings returns to Pembroke to run one of the most diverse colleges in the South.
- Both of North Carolina's public systems are ushering in new leaders in 2016.
- North Carolina didn't have to look far to find the new leader for its community-college system.
- Head of the class.
- Directory: North Carolina Higher Education.
- 2016 law journal.
- Comeback trail: investments in defense, roads and wind offer renewed promise for northeast North Carolina.