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Interplay Learning?—?Helping the Skilled Trades Rebuild a Bigger and Better Workforce

Austin Startup

More than 4,000 companies worldwide applied for the awards, which are designed to honor those committed to solving some of the world’s biggest challenges, including health and climate crises, social injustice and economic inequality. Here’s Interplay’s story and the impact it has made.

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Risk Management Issues in Healthcare

Board Effect

They need to work in collaboration with senior executives on designing and implementing effective risk management issues in healthcare that identify key risk exposures and address them, so they have the least possible impact on the healthcare organization. Gaining Perspectives from Around the World on Healthcare Risk Management.

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Furniture CEO Finds Balance between Success and Staying Grounded

Hearpreneur

OFM manufactures, distributes, and provides wholesale school furniture from their headquarters – North Carolina. Blake Zalcberg is chief executive officer for OFM , a family-owned office and school furniture manufacturer, distributor, and wholesaler headquartered in North Carolina. Sleep is a vital piece as well.

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28 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

Our mission stems from our passion in creating automotive technology disruption, our vision of a more sustainable future and our belief in astoundingly desirable designs that the Fisker name has been known for all around the world. My very first job I was working as a jewelry designer in the diamond district in New York.

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19 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

I opened my business because I saw a gap in the market – both in art and in fashion – where new artists and new designers had no idea how to brand themselves, market themselves, or get into the niche they had a passion for because there were no doors open for them. My summer trips to Mediterranean islands inspired my designs.

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The Secret Sauce of a Successful Smart City

Austin Startup

That last point demands more attention, as it’s one of the biggest sources of risk and missed opportunities in smart cities projects. Cary, North Carolina surveys its residents every other year about various topics and the so-called barriers to citizen involvement rarely change. In the Web 1.0

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Boom and Bust and What Comes Next

Scalable Startup

Until recently Showplace Square’s post-quake red-brick warehouses were home to furniture and interior design showrooms, but soon, if the real estate developers have their way and the tech economy continues to expand, they will be converted to offices filled with even more “techies.” And the losers? Utah Mining and Construction are long gone.