Michelle Corbet
Reporter
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 :
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September 2018
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Transportation & Logistics The Memphis and Shelby County Port Commission is working to secure state funds to create a second entrance, or exit, where the road inside the industrial park currently dead ends on the south side. -
Business Ceremony to mark completion of $4.5M levee drainage project
When the Mississippi River rose to historic levels in 2011, local officials observed water seeping under the levee that protects the Frank C. Pidgeon Industrial Park near Presidents Island. -
Business New Downtown fitness studio product of grit and grind entrepreneurship
Memphis native Victoria Young, 27, wants to inspire other young entrepreneurs to act now, and figure the how out later. -
Health Care As abortion rates decline, CHOICES diversifies to grow
The impetus of CHOICES’ new facility is just that – more choices when it comes to reproductive health. Founded in 1974 as a nonprofit community health agency offering free pregnancy testing, first-trimester abortions and counseling, over the years, CHOICES has evolved into a full gynecology practice. CHOICES’ next mission is creating a national model for combining abortion, birth, adoption and other reproductive services under the same roof with its new 16,000-square-foot center for reproductive health under construction across from Moore Tech on Poplar Avenue. -
Health Care Meet midwife Nikia Grayson
Nikia Grayson’s career started as a sports photographer. -
Health Care ‘Tumor escape’ could be eradicated through Tessa, St. Jude partnership
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is collaborating with a Singapore-based clinical stage biopharmaceutical company to develop a novel way of using a patient’s immune system to fight cancer. -
The case for code names: Finding the balance between competitiveness, good public policy
These are the code names for some of the largest economic development projects in recent history — Mitsubishi Electric Power Products’ $226 million manufacturing plant on Presidents Island, Orgill Inc.’s $21 million world headquarters in Collierville and the $36 million transformation of Peabody Place into a headquarters for ServiceMaster Global Holdings. -
Health Care Bereaved parents help pediatric hospitals, medical professionals deliver bad news
When 9-year-old Sydney Ives attended her first piano lesson, she put her hands on the keys and when she attempted to play a note, her right hand fell flat to her side, as if she’d had a stroke. -
Health Care St. Jude takes on global cancer cure rate with WHO partnership
When it comes to curing pediatric cancer on a global scale, treatment is just one piece of the puzzle. -
Health Care New Midtown clinic takes preventive-care approach
Instead of waiting to schedule a doctor’s appointment until a health concern comes along, a new clinic in Midtown is taking a more proactive approach to health care.
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October 2018
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Health Care Chili’s, St. Jude partnership is good for business
Today’s consumers have higher expectations. They not only want a great product, but they are willing to buy from or boycott companies based on corporate values. -
Business Illinois couple turns past Memphis brands into apparel
Keith and Amy Watson, a couple in Rockford, Illinois, have combined their love of travel, design and history into a side business – Bygone Brand, a retro apparel company. -
Business Family, community celebrate Phil Trenary’s life, career
Thursday’s service for Greater Memphis Chamber president and CEO Phil Trenary was not a funeral. It was a celebration of life. -
Business What’s next for the Greater Memphis Chamber?
Three days before Greater Memphis Chamber president and CEO Phil Trenary was gunned down in Downtown Memphis, an impromptu meeting was called. -
Business Corporate office alternative opens Downtown
After working in corporate America for 10 years, Tisch McDaniel was looking for a change. -
Downtown Lifestyle hub slated for vacant S. Main property
A group of Venezuelan-American businessmen, who manage a local network of pharmacies and medical clinics, are turning a vacated building on the Main Street Mall into a “lifestyle hub.” -
Education Southwest to offer Memphis’ first funeral services degree in 2019
Students interested in a career as an embalmer or funeral director will no longer have to drive outside of Shelby County to pursue a degree. -
Education Modern manufacturing inspires the next generation
Last Friday, a group of students from Bolton High School toured Competition Cams Inc., a Memphis-based manufacturer of performance camshafts and other valve train parts. At the beginning of the tour, feet were dragging and yawns were contagious, but as students moved through the production process and more machinery came into play, they began to ask questions. -
Business Family stakes claim Downtown with mixed-use development
When the principals of an investment firm working to revitalize a blighted building on South Main Street received approval for a 15-year tax break Tuesday, they didn’t shake hands. -
Health Care More than awareness, Komen M3 subsidizes breast cancer care for region’s poorest
It’s that time of year again when women and men bring the pink apparel to the front of their closets; pink ribbons can be seen pinned on lapels across the business community and even Memphis Tigers players done pink footwear and gloves. -
Health Care Course seeks to reignite medical students’ passion to make a difference
After a day full of classroom instruction, clinicals and homework, medical students started to fill the Church Health community room at Crosstown Concourse the evening of Wednesday, Oct. 3. -
Health Care Infant remembrance ceremony to be held Tuesday at Germantown Historic Church
When Robbie Spearman lost her twins in the neonatal intensive care unit, she dropped to her knees in grief. -
Health Care St. Jude researchers receive ‘high-risk, high-reward’ grants
There’s no reward without a little risk and two researchers at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital have received grants from the National Institutes of Health totaling more than $5 million for cutting-edge, experimental research. -
Business Longtime Beale Street property owner invests in historic building
Sandwiched between two multi-million-dollar hotel projects, a longtime Beale Street property owner is investing in a historic building that sits in-between. -
Health Care Couple turns infant loss grief into a gift for others
Emily Long was 38 weeks pregnant when she noticed her usually active baby wasn't moving. Long and her husband, Joel, called their doctor who advised them to come to the hospital immediately.
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