Legal Elite 2021: Creative Quarantine
Home became a much more important place amid the 2020 pandemic for everyone, including the N.C. legal community. Statewide restrictions limited access to courthouses and office buildings for [...]
The whitewater center’s rollicking ride
U.S. National Whitewater Center CEO Jeff Wise hung on through a recession, restructuring, tragedy and pandemic at one of the state's hottest visitor attractions.Skeptics who thought it was crazy [...]
Point Taken: Fifty years of N.C. changes
North Carolina has changed mightily since 1971 — for the most part.You forget how quickly time passes. It has been 50 years since I celebrated the new year in 1971, which seems impossible, but [...]
Pillars of North Carolina: Steve Stroud
From humble beginnings, Steve Stroud rose to become one of the state’s most highly regarded commercial real estate pros.Commercial real estate professional Stephen Stroud remembers taking [...]
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Chip Mahan’s coastal empire
A veteran banker motivates his colleagues to reboot the financial services landscape.In 2013, Live Oak Bank got interested in chickens. The bank, which formed five years earlier, had grown fast [...]
Top stock picks for 2021
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Top Fidelity executive builds investor confidence
Recalling her mom's struggles managing money motivates Kathleen Murphy in her senior post at investment giant Fidelity.Family-owned Fidelity Investments is based in Boston, but North Carolina is [...]
Feud erupts among pork industry’s family friends
A Wayne County lawsuit provides an unusual look inside the multibillion-dollar global pork trade and exposes a rift among old eastern North Carolina farming powerhouses.For more than 25 years, [...]
Research Triangle Park’s $795M injection
Industry veteran Franco Negron leads a huge Durham syringe plant.After retiring from a senior job at pharmaceutical manufacturer ThermoFisher Scientific in March, Franco Negron was studying how [...]
Town Square: Louisburg
A community-minded doctor invests in a vision to light a spark under a quaint Cabarrus County town.The place where Jessica Shockley clocks in every day — where she pours bourbons named Larceny [...]
