Mary Lhowe
Spending cuts force Navy to reshape; opportunity for contractors
Imminent spending reductions by the Department of Defense combined with a mix of different types of international security threats will require the Navy to...
Dash of theater keeping conventioneers coming
Conventioneers are plenty used to the goodie bags, the “Hello! My name is …” noose, and the chicken lump entrée. But few people attend...
RI-CIE’s Brendan McNally, a matchmaker for innovators and marketing gurus
A bright idea for a new high-tech product, a laboratory, a factory, an investor, a patent lawyer, a market researcher and a publicist: Bring...
Focus on staff strengths builds powerhouse team
When Pannone Lopes Devereaux & West began in Providence four years ago, the founding partners decided the firm would not straitjacket itself by imposing...
Atmosphere of cooperation is instilled from the top at KLR
Kahn, Litwin, Renza and Co. could almost qualify as a great place to work on the basis of one benefit alone: during tax season,...
Sense of purpose strong motivator for workers
Amgen Inc., the California-based bio-pharmaceutical firm, operates 24 hours a day in West Greenwich to produce the drug Enbrel, which treats rheumatoid arthritis and...
A mentor students, staff are eager to make proud
When he was a post-doctoral fellow at the Weight Control and Diabetes Research Center in Providence from 1999 to 2001, one of John Jakicic’s...
When business, family intersect
The director of the University of Massachusetts Amherst Family Business Center has a New Yorker cartoon posted on his door that depicts a man...
Alloy injects hope among plastics manufacturers
Cool Polymers Inc. sees itself as a world-changing creator of “disruptive technologies.”
“Disruptive” does not sound like a good thing on the surface, but wait....
Adding another dimension to biomedicine
If you build a better mousetrap, will the world, as Ralph Waldo Emerson predicted, beat a path to your door?
Raising the stakes for...
