January 2021

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Vontier CEO Mark Morelli faces enough pressure without Business North Carolina’s annual stock-picking contest adding fuel to the fire. (Forgive the pun — Vontier owns the No. 1 gas-station pump [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]