Carolyn Hardy’s passion for diversity in the workplace began decades ago during her tenure at J.M. Smucker Co. Taking advantage of Smucker’s 100 percent tuition reimbursement, she received her master’s degree and also became a CPA, which opened the door to new opportunities at the company.

The Downtown Memphis Commission will posthumously honor Phil Trenary during an Oct. 26 awards program that was postponed after Trenary’s death.

As a junior studying English at Vanderbilt University, Leland McNabb was working on Spectrum, a student newspaper focused on publishing honors papers, when he was tasked with profiling Vanderbilt University Law School.

Growing up in Memphis, Tamera Malone, instructional coach at Gestalt Public Schools, was excited for a fresh start at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She was making great strides in her pursuit of a degree in political science, which would soon propel her into law school, or so she thought. Then she took a role as an assistant for a college class that would dramatically alter her perspective and plans for the future.

Ray’s Take: Everyone loves to set big goals. I’m going to lose 30 pounds and get in shape in a month. I’m going to travel around the world. I’m going to retire at 50. And the list could go on and on. While goal setting is important and helps shape our dreams, goals like these are virtually unattainable and when they aren’t met can leave us feeling like a failure.

The city committee trying to build a better way of pursuing economic development will meet later this month with the two organizations that play the major roles in the existing system – the Greater Memphis Chamber and the Economic Development Growth Engine.

Neighborhood grocery Montesi’s announced this week that it will close by the end of October, becoming the second independent grocery in two weeks to shut its doors along the hard-hit Summer Avenue corridor.

Public policy and competition in the business world can co-exist with business taking the lead in creating new jobs, says one of the new set of leaders of the Greater Memphis Chamber.

October in Memphis: a high of 92 and sweat. October in Boston: 65, partly sunny and how I imagine autumn should feel.

Budding entrepreneurs and local business owners looking for a little insight came out Wednesday for the annual SCORE Memphis Small Business Boot Camp: Roadmap to Success held in Germantown. 

After five years of social networking events in Memphis, Undercurrent is ending with its 50th meetup in December.

Graceland has sued the city of Memphis again, this time in federal court, over an indefinite delay of a zoning change allowing Elvis Presley Enterprises to expand the Whitehaven tourist magnet.

Sandwiched between two multi-million-dollar hotel projects, a longtime Beale Street property owner is investing in a historic building that sits in-between.

Homeownership, the American dream. Where the heart is. We really do love homes. Talking about them, thinking about them, constantly surveying the residential real estate landscape even though we have no plans of moving.

Have you ever had someone tell you that it’s a good idea to get your foot in the door at a company? The theory is that if you get your foot in the door, you can work your way up over time. I understand the reasoning. It’s a career outlook that has been around for a long time. But, in today’s career environment, this approach can backfire.

A health care products manufacturing site on Presidents Island expects to lose 99 jobs by April 2019 as a contract production agreement runs out.

University of Tennessee Health Science Center researchers Francesca-Fang Liao, John V. Cox and Brian M. Peters recently received grants for their work.

As The Daily Memphian enters its second month as a publication, we wanted to thank you for reading us and for subscribing to our email editions and the site. We appreciate it immensely.

We all have relationships. When it comes to fundraising – especially major gift fundraising – the question is this: Do you – or those you know – have relationships with individuals who can make or influence major gifts?

Google’s latest two algorithm updates, Medic and Birthday, each had a significant impact on where affected websites found themselves ranking within the search engine results pages (SERPs).

I experimented – up to a point – with the new service in Memphis called Lawn Love, which provides grass mowing, leaf removal or other yard services with the touch of a mobile app or click on the website.

For the first time in many years, a national philanthropic group focused on improving the experience of aging will hold its annual conference in the South, specifically at The Peabody hotel.

Most businesses would be ecstatic if their revenue increased more than 100 percent in less than two years. Scammers are business people too, scams are their products, and the FBI reports that their revenue from one scam increased 136 percent between December 2016 and May 2018.

When doing both strategic planning and innovation work, the biggest hurdles are your own experiences, worldviews, and knowledge of the market and players in it.

Greater Memphis Chamber chairman Richard Smith says the organization welcomes input from local elected officials on the process of replacing its president and CEO, but the Chamber does not need to make it a public process.