When Marcy Doderer became president and CEO of the Arkansas Children’s in 2013, in a way she was joining the family business. Her father, J.B. Norton, M.D., was the chief of pediatric cardiology at Arkansas Children’s when she was growing…
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Though it may not have been where he was born or raised, Jim Ronquest is as much at home in the Natural State as any native-born Arkansan. The famed outdoorsman originally hails from the Missouri Ozarks, but his father’s job…
Pictured above: An aerial shot of Big River Steel in Mississippi County. (Photos provided) In 1953, Arkansas lawmakers signed off on “The Land of Opportunity” as the official state nickname. Within a few years, future governor Winthrop Rockefeller became the…
Retirement is often treated as a given, a basic stage of life just as expected as the years and education and work that precede it. Yet for many, reality is not quite so simple and the idea of retirement seems…
While much attention is rightfully paid to Oaklawn Racing Casino Resort’s major additions in recent years, during which the establishment was developed into a fully fledged casino resort, no less important changes were made in the decades prior that allowed…
Prathibha Rajashekhar, Walmart’s senior vice president for automation and innovation/stores and supply chain, was born and raised in India, where, with the support and encouragement of her grandfather, she attended the University of Mysore and earned a degree in computer…
The history of Arkansas is replete with the names of great businessmen such as Sam Walton, J.B. Hunt and Witt Stephens. With a thriving atmosphere of startups and entrepreneurs in the state, there are plenty of aspiring business owners who…
Jan Springer is an associate professor of computer science and director of the George W. Donaghey Emerging Analytics Center at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. His work is on virtual reality systems for modeling and simulation in areas…
Running a business is not easy, and there is a great deal of unglamorous work that has to happen behind the scenes to keep everything else working smoothly. Many business services fall into this category, but there is an exception.…
A recent addition to the South Main district’s growing roster of locally owned and operated eateries, the Bagel Shop is also Little Rock’s only dedicated bagel joint that side of the airport. There’s far more to this growing business than…