Mary Lhowe
Support for others creates support within firm
For more than 30 years, Perspectives Corporation, headquartered in North Kingstown, has been offering support and hope day to day – and even minute...
Autocrat bucks trend by staying in the family
Autocrat Inc., a fourth-generation, family-owned business that has been making coffee and coffee extracts since 1895, is riding the crest of today’s coffee-chic tidal...
Bringing ‘firsts’ to the city’s cultural tapestry
Providence has had its share of conventional performing arts: stage plays, philharmonic music, Broadway shows, ballet. But increasingly, it also offers more cutting-edge fare,...
A 50-year tradition lives on at Wayland Square
If you walk into Rufful’s restaurant at Wayland Square any time outside the breakfast or lunch rush, you can see one or two of...
The small details can become big business
Hollywood images and newspaper headlines have conditioned us to think that disasters are composites of giant explosions, stampeding crowds and commandos barking into walkie-talkies.
Disasters...
Wooing tourists with stories, ‘green’ ethos
The tourism industry has jumped on the “green” bandwagon, moving to protect and enhance tourism destinations and to make lodgings and attractions more enticing...
A leader in business, family and public policy
You might say that Paul J. Choquette Jr., chairman of Gilbane Inc. and the sixth member of his family to head the 134-year-old construction...
A ‘fantastic’ turnaround for health care leader
No rational business person expects to find a silver bullet that can, by itself, slay a hydra-headed dragon of problems, from deficits to wage...
Outlying areas ready for meeting-goers, too
Flocks of out-of-town conventioneers bearing name tags and plastic goodie bags are a common sight in downtown Providence and Newport. But persuading convention visitors...
Grantmakers look beyond charity to social change
People usually think of entities such as the United Way of Rhode Island and the Rhode Island Foundation as munificent, tea-sipping organizations that accumulate...
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