Aisling Maki

Sexual harassment, tax reform, elections, changes to health care law, travel bans and changes to visa rules for immigrants, medical marijuana, social media guidelines — they’re all topics constantly on the radar for human resources professionals. The…

Whether we’re talking about community-based startups or new businesses with high-growth potential, Memphis entrepreneurs have a friend in the form of Entrepreneurship-Powered Innovation Center, better known as EPICenter Memphis. The non-profit…

The Palazola name has been associated with produce in the Bluff City for more than a century. In 1974, Mike Palazola founded M. Palazola Produce Co., a wholesaler and distributor of fresh fruits and vegetables to restaurants and institutional food…

Unlike tech-based startups, whose high growth potential can lead to equity-based investments, community-based businesses in Memphis’ startup ecosystem and across the country are largely dependent on debt-based platforms, which can limit their…

Although more than half of law school graduates are women, they make up only 36 percent of legal professionals, according to a 2017 report from the American Bar Association’s Commission on Women. “The industry as a whole has a problem attracting…

In the entrepreneurial ecosystem, what makes or breaks a business is often capital. Facing a less-than-optimal mix of venture and angel capital in Memphis, entrepreneur supporters hope that homegrown startup success stories will attract more…

EMPHASIS: Insurance In 1973, Cindi Gresham was a biology major at the University of Memphis – then called Memphis State University – when she was offered a part-time job, and later a full-time job, at a now-defunct Memphis insurance agency. (Memphis…

Geoff Greene, CEO of Memphis-based Greene Turbine LLC, has dedicated the past 17 years to finding a clean, low-maintenance, economically efficient method of harnessing the power of the mighty Mississippi River to deliver energy into the Tennessee…

In 2010, Dr. Lee Roberts and his son Josh Roberts co-founded Memphaceuticals LLC, a small, virtual company committed to rapidly moving to market therapeutic candidates for dermatological problems. “Our overall mission is to really focus on…

Mahaffey Tent & Party Rentals is one of only two Memphis companies recently named to the 2012 Inner City 100, a list of the fastest-growing inner city companies in the United States. The list was compiled by the Initiative for a Competitive Inner…

This week marks a milestone for Memphis-based MRI Interventions Inc., which began trading as a public company Monday, May 21. The medical device business, whose mission is to create innovative platforms for performing the next generation of minimally…

The Memphis-based Alliance for Nonprofit Excellence is gearing up for its seventh annual conference, and this year’s theme focuses on ways nonprofits can harness the power of social media and build connected communities in this fast-paced information…

The first quarter of 2012 showed a slight increase in bankruptcy filings in West Tennessee, according to The Daily News Online, www.memphisdailynews.com. All chapters combined – Chapters 7, 11 and 13 – amounted to 3,063 Shelby County bankruptcies for…