Business Perspective

Sep 13, 2019

First in Future: President of Central Piedmont Community College Dr. Kandi Deitemeyer

Summary: Across North Carolina, our 58 community colleges are designed to be within a few minutes’ drive of every person in the state. They have a broad core suite of… 

Sep 12, 2019

First in Future: President and Board Chair of the John M Belk Endowment MC Belk Pilon

Summary: If you were making a shortlist of family names associated with Charlotte, “Belk” would have to be near the top. Beginning in 1888, the Belk’s started a small retail… 

Sep 10, 2019

First in Future: Mayor of Charlotte Vi Lyles

Summary: A 2015 report on economic mobility in the U.S. caught Charlotte’s attention. The report looked at the likelihood that someone whose parents’ income ranked in the bottom 20% would… 

May 14, 2019

First in Future: President of the Statesville Chamber of Commerce Shannon Viera

Summary: The growing economy is causing business challenges across the state as communities scramble to attract talented people from other places to work there, and to make sure the people… 

Mar 26, 2019

First in Future: Chief Executive Officer and President of the Piedmont Triad Partnership Stan Kelly

Summary: A new word to learn is agglomeration; the trend toward increasing concentration of people and jobs in more centralized regions. North Carolina is seeing this as the major metropolitan areas,… 

Jan 30, 2018

Q & A with kidoNomiCs Forum Speaker Jim Hansen of PNC Bank

With our 2018 kidonomics Forum just one week away, we’re reaching out to a few our of Forum speakers to get their take on why early childhood development is important… 

Jan 9, 2018

Study Finds Diversity Boosts Innovation in U.S. Companies

A recent study finds taking steps to foster diversity makes a company more innovative, in terms of product innovations, patents created and citations on patents. 

Jan 9, 2018

Forbes Winners Credit IEI and Early Reading as Part of Business Success

These days, Patrick Mateer spends his time poring through business receipts and produce as the CEO of Seal The Seasons, a Chapel Hill-based company that stocks stores with local, farm-fresh…