When you have been running a successful family-owned business for 50 years, you must be doing something right. Classic Commercial Services, a leading Atlanta-based commercial cleaning company, was founded in 1973 by Linda and Randy Longenbach, and is now guided by...
Who would have thought that a world-travelling, high-powered accounting professional working for a Fortune 50 company would give up her fast-track career to launch a business that she had absolutely no background in? That’s what Elizabeth Ellsworth and husband...
By Mike Killeen Lucinda Williams recently told Rolling Stone magazine of an early meeting with a Columbia Records executive. “He said, ‘You have a lot of potential, but you need to work on your songs. None of them have bridges.’ After the meeting, I got out my Bob...
Superheroes are often depicted wearing capes and flying around bustling cities in their bright and extravagant costumes. Jordan Rose and Meisa Salaita may not look the part, but they have become superheroes in their own important way by celebrating and promoting...
Susan Clark’s work has always been a great motivator for her. In her first job after graduating from Duke University, she worked for a nonprofit group that concentrated on hunger and poverty issues. After earning her MBA from Northwestern University’s prestigious...
Miranda Madar knew from the time she was a 16-year-old high school student in the Bronx, N.Y. that she wanted to work in advertising. That was when Madar, now Resurgens Orthopaedics’ Director of Marketing, earned an internship with YM magazine. So perhaps it...
Vladimir Putin. Tony Blair. Silvio Berlusconi. George W. Bush. Eric Betts got to see them all up close. As a regional representative based in Savannah for former U.S. Senator Saxby Chambliss, Betts helped to serve as part of the 2004 G-8 Summit welcoming committee at...