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Michelle Corbet covers business for The Daily Memphian. Prior to, she was a reporter at the Memphis Business Journal. A native Memphian and University of Memphis graduate, Michelle covered business in Conway, Arkansas after college. Michelle got her start covering business as an intern at The Commercial Appeal.
There are 256 articles by Michelle Corbet :
An interventional cardiologist at Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare has performed several experimental first-in-the-world heart procedures on patients that were deemed inoperable by other physicians.
It's the love of the game and an opportunity to give back that inspire the volunteers, but a BlueCross BlueShield sponsorship sets the WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational apart from other PGA Tour events.
A startup working to improve efficiency and reduce costs related to warehousing and logistics is considering Memphis as the location for its development and manufacturing headquarters.
Patterson Warehouses Inc. is planning a $30.2 million expansion. To ensure the project stays in Shelby County, EDGE is recommending a six-year tax abatement.
Cafe Lit, a literature-themed, multistory supper club with live entertainment, could bring more nightlife to Madison Avenue.
The owners of the Cupboard Restaurant plan to add an “Express Grab & Go” component to their shipping and receiving and catering office on Carolina Avenue.
After 21 years leading one of the 60 largest law firms in the country, Baker Donelson chairman and CEO Ben C. Adams is taking more time to focus on his practice and serve his hometown.
Some neighbors surrounding a proposed apartment building off Peabody Avenue have concerns about height, but in a zoning district that allows multifamily construction, the developer has the right to build it three stories high.
The canopy of the former gas station that most recently housed Fuel Cafe is one stop closer to being closed in to increase seating capacity for a new homemade pasta and pizza restaurant.
A biodegradable drug delivery implant startup based in Memphis has launched a private placement investment offering through MicroVentures.
The Greater Memphis Chamber wants local companies to intentionally disrupt out-of-town relationships by bringing outside vendor contracts back to Memphis.
Established Downtown Memphis businesses trade monthly rent for mortgage payments instead.
The vacant Fuel Cafe on Madison could be renovated into a new pizza and pasta restaurant by a local grower who sells handmade pastas at local farmers markets.
With more bone fractures occurring in the warmer months, a medical device startup is piloting a cooler cast with Regional One Health.
The University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law has named the first woman in the history of the law school to serve as dean.
Memphis has become a mecca for medical training and medical device development partially due to the number of readily available human cadavers in the Medical District.
Church Health is funding a new position in partnership with the School of Social Work at the University of Memphis to enhance behavioral health services to the underserved and largely uninsured Latino community in Memphis.
The first graduates of a new family medicine residency are taking a Memphis-based, whole-person approach to primary care out to rural communities and across the country.
More than 400,000 homes in Shelby County could fall under the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's stricter hazard standards for lead-contaminated dust from chipped or peeling lead-based paint.
With the gender wage gap and sexual harassment in the workplace coming to the forefront from the #MeToo movement, a group of local executives has partnered with the Greater Memphis Chamber to launch a council focused on women in the workplace.
AutoZone is approved for a tax incentive to expand its Downtown presence into a “campus environment.”
Construction on a $1.8 million mixed-use project on Monroe by the owners of McEwen’s restaurant could begin next month.
The off-leash area in the Edge Triangle now has synthetic turf that will stay green all year long.
After securing a PILOT earlier this year, Cleveland Track Material Inc. has completed a $6 million expansion of its Memphis manufacturing facility that will result in 51 new jobs.
After having a stroke, when doctors found another blood vessel that could rupture in Steven Legens' brain, he was the first in Tennessee to enroll in a clinical trial for a product that could prevent another stroke.