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29768
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The Piedmont Triad region of North Carolina is quickly becoming a titan of transportation. Due to strong infrastructure in the transportation, distribution, and logistics sectors, and hubs for companies like FedEx, more transportation manufacturing and industries are moving into the area.
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10008
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North Carolina is transitioning economically from traditional industries like textiles and tobacco to industries in the life sciences, like biotechnology, agricultural genetics, metabolomics, and nutria-genomics. Already the state ranks first in contract research organizations in the country; second in agricultural biotechnology research; third in biomanufacturing; and fourth in pharmaceutical manufacturing.
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Biotechnology is a growing business in North Carolina, which ranks third behind California and Massachusetts in this respect. Currently over 48,000 are employed in the state, with 2,000 new jobs created annually. Knowland discusses the business of training and equipping a biotech workforce in the state.
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10437
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Knowland discusses the increasing dropout problem in the state's high schools and programs that seek to reduce it. These programs include Communities in Schools of NC; Futures For Kids; North Carolina Business Committee For Education; North Carolina New Schools Project; Public School Forum Of NC; and SAS Educational Value-Added Assessment System.
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NC MAGAZINE profiles eight individuals in its annual Exceptional Women Leaders series whose work and decisions have an impact on North Carolina. They are Bev Perdue, Governor of North Carolina; Karen Albritton, president of Capstrat; Rosemary DePaolo, Chancellor, UNC-Wilmington; Nadine Hall, VP of Activewear, Hanesbrands; Carol Hevey, Executive VP, Time Warner Cable Carolinas Region; Elyse Cochran, President County Chamber of Commerce; Brenda Mills, Project Manager, City of Asheville; and Kim Saunders, President and CEO, Mechanics & Farmers Bank.
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29789
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In fields as varied as education, government, commerce, and retail, female leaders in North Carolina are passionate, determined, and proud. Exceptional women leaders in the state include Bev Perdue--Governor of North Carolina; Karen Albritton--President, Capstrat, a Raleigh-based strategic communication firm; Rosemary DePaola--Chancellor of University of North Carolina at Wilmington; Nadine Hall--Vice President of Activewear and Hanesbrands; Carol Hevey--Exective Vice President of Time Warner Cable, Carolinas Region; Elyse Cochran--President, Gaston County Chamber of Commerce; Brenda Mills--Project Manager, City of Asheville; and Kim Saunders--President and CEO, Mechanics and Farmers Bank.
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9507
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The executive MBA is a unique program for executives and business leaders who choose to continue their education. The program usually has year-round instruction which allows participants to continue working while earning a degree. This type of program is a “cohort program,†or one in which participants attend courses for a specified period of time with the same group of people. Knowland summarizes this program at four universities--Duke, Queens, UNC-Chapel Hill, and Wake Forest.
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Fran O'Sullivan is senior vice-president of the product group at Lenovo. She is responsible for worldwide managing of all ThinkPad and Lenovo desktops, notebooks, displays, options and services. O'Sullivan was also a part of the first five space shuttle launches and later worked on the team that invented the personal computer.
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Jim Captain, manager of Credit Suisse's Research Triangle Park location, is featured in NC MAGAZINE's executive profile. Credit Suisse is a global financial services company that advises clients in investment banking, private banking, and asset management.
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10563
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The North Carolina Business Hall of Fame will induct four outstanding business leaders in the fall of 2008. They are John Crosland, Jr. (Crosland); Robert Ingram (Glaxo-SmithKline); Jerry Richardson (Carolina Panthers NFL Football Team); and Edward Smith Jr. (Grady-White Boats).
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29807
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In light of the proposed legislation, Employee Free Choice Act, or the union card check legislation, North Carolina lawyers are urging employers and employees in the state to educate themselves and their elected officials on the three major impacts. These impacts would include the elimination of the secret-ballot election in union organization, requirement of negotiation within 10 days, and an increase in penalties for federal labor violations on employers but not unions.
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29652
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North Carolina power companies are moving towards renewable energy, and the state has numerous sources. From animals waste and water, to solar energy and wind, utilizing renewable energy in the state is about finding cost effective technologies that serve the greater good.
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29816
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With familiarity and contacts across North Carolina, as well as guiding principles of service, actions over words, and character over intellect, Brad Wilson is excelling as chief operating officer of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina. As North Carolina faces unique challenges, Wilson pushes for BCBSNC to remain consistent in their business as a form of service.
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29776
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It may seem easy to just replace nonrenewable energy sources with renewable ones. But in North Carolina even those sources that seem ideal for emissions have drawbacks in the form of land needs, cost, capacity, and even aesthetics.
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Iowa is the top state in the production of biofuels with 751 million gallons produced in 2005. Tennessee, which is ranked tenth, produced 67 million gallons in the same year. North Carolina lags behind the other states in this area, producing no ethanol and less than 20,000 gallons of biodiesel in 2006. Knowland discusses how the state plans to expand this industry.
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