|
Wednesday, 30 January 2008 |
 As an accountant for a large corporation, Chris Nowell gained invaluable experience and opportunities to advance his career within a corporate setting. For many, that would have been the perfect job. But for Nowell, a family man with a desire to grow roots within his community and his business, a smaller firm was a much better fit. Nowell left the corporate world about three years ago with two co-workers, who are now his business partners, to run a small but multi-faceted accounting and business advisory firm in Charleston. In this setting, Nowell relishes the opportunity to work on a highly personal level with his clients and help their companies flourish as well as grow a successful business relationship with his customers and their employees.
|
|
Read more...
|
|
|
Wednesday, 30 January 2008 |
 Creativity is in Carlos Jimenez’s blood. His grandfather was an artist for the Catholic Church in Spain and was sent to Cuba to work on cathedrals and religious art. Jimenez, whose family lived in Cuba a number of years, was born there in the years before Fidel Castro came to power. When he was 7 years old, his family moved to Miami. His brother is an art curator and his sister is an art teacher. “I grew up with several cultures,” said Jimenez, chairman and CEO of the bounce agency in Greenville. “Diversity and creativity—I grew up around it.”
|
|
Read more...
|
|
|
Wednesday, 30 January 2008 |
 A few years ago, fewer than 200 black men were teaching in South Carolina’s elementary schools, a small percentage of the more than 20,000 elementary teachers around the state. Roy I. Jones is trying to improve those numbers. As director of the Call Me MISTER program at Clemson University, Jones is working with black men interested in careers in elementary education.
|
|
Read more...
|
|
|
Thursday, 10 January 2008 |
|
In 2006 when we decided to produce a Who’s Who in South Carolina Business in the 2007 winter issue of SCBIZ magazine, we were overly optimistic. We didn’t realize that we were trying to eat an elephant in one bite. What we found was, to list everybody across the state who is a Who’s Who, we would need two or three magazines.
|
|
Read more...
|
|
|
Wednesday, 19 December 2007 |
 Today, the Palmetto State’s three senior research institutions—the Medical University of South Carolina, Clemson University and the University of South Carolina—are making huge strides in research and development and each has lofty goals to one day rank among the nation’s top universities. All three schools tout impressive recent research-related accomplishments, and their efforts are bolstered by statewide and federal initiatives to support research activity.
|
|
Read more...
|
|
|
|
<< Start < Prev 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Next > End >>
|
| Results 55 - 63 of 90 |
