Topic: New Orleans

Tim Williamson

General Manager, Cox Interactive Media of New OrleansREAD»

Recruiting and Retaining Talent

How can a city attract bright, young talent without a powerful business community? How can a city grow a powerful business community without bright, young talent?READ»

Clean '09

"I know I'll offend wet advocates, but you can't do everything with water," says Tim Maxwell, president of GreenEarth Cleaning, which licenses a liquid-silicone-based dry-cleaning technology. At the biennial World ...READ»

Tech Priority Check

While the New Orleans economy is powered mainly by tourism, many community leaders envision the city as an emerging technological hub anchored by its most recent high-tech achievement: The Naval Information Technology CenterREAD»

The Business of Partnerships

Since the Civil War days, solidarity has remained the South's proudest attribute. Just as the Southern states banded together in 1861, various sectors of the New Orleans community are joining hands today -- but this union has a different missionREAD»

Reinventing New Orleans

Silicon Bourbon? New Orleans works to change its brand from indulgence to innovation and from revelry to research.READ»

Where Are the Cruise Ships?

In watching all the horrific tragedy and devastation in New Orleans and the rest of the Gulf Coast, I can't help but wonder: Where are the cruise ship companies? Maybe they've offered and I've missed it. Maybe it's geographically or ...READ»

Report from New Orleans

As soon as the storm hit New Orleans, I emailed area members of the Company of Friends, Fast Company's readers network to see whether there was anything we -- and other readers -- could do to help. It took awhile for area readers to ...READ»

Fast History: Hurricane Katrina Makes Landfall in New Orleans, 2005

Most Americans remember tuning into the news this morning four years ago to find a beloved American city half immersed in water after Hurricane Katrina’s Category 3-fueled storm surge broke New Orleans fragile levees. Katrina ...READ»

Barbara MacPhee

Principal, New Orleans Center for Science and MathematicsREAD»

The Roundtable

The following representatives from the New Orleans business, education, and technology communities contributed insight, forecasts, and cautions regarding the transformation of their hometown.READ»

Harold E. Doley, Jr.

Founder and Chairman, Doley Securities, Inc.READ»

Brand U.S.A.: New Orleans

Given its rich cultural history, can and should New Orleans embrace the technological demands of the New Economy and down play its Mardi Gras reputation?READ»

Edward Massey

Owner, Massey RealtyREAD»

Kimberly Williamson

Executive Director, New Orleans Downtown Development DistrictREAD»

Fast Cities: New Orleans

The recovery of post-Katrina New Orleans has unleashed a new generation of social entrepreneurs. A sterling example: the Broadmoor Improvement Association and its dynamic president, LaToya Cantrell. Broadmoor is a racially mixed, middle-class historic district dating to the 1920s.READ»

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Jim Clinton

Director, Southern Technology CouncilREAD»

Brady Finney

Director of Operations, New Orleans Technology CouncilREAD»

Education Report Card

Dogged by historically low test scores, the New Orleans Public School System flounders while nearby private institutions follow the lead of strong higher education programs in the area. Closing this education gap requires back-to-basics education reformREAD»

Stephen Sabludowsky

Co-founder, The Internet CoalitionREAD»

Harsh Reality

It isn't easy talking about innovation strategies or customer relations when people are suffering in New Orleans and one of our oldest cities is facing irreparable damage. Still, it wouldn't be out of line to direct you to CNN's ...READ»

Soya and Oilseed Summit 2009

The U.S. expects its largest-ever soybean crop this year: 3.2 billion bushels, enough to make 77 pounds of tofu for each person on the planet. Still, that might not be adequate, given rising demand for meat -- and thus animal feed -- ...READ»

25-Foot Junk Food Pyramid to Raise Awareness... and Hunger

Junk food tastes better than it looks--place a pile of neon orange Cheetos next to a basket of fresh strawberries to see for yourself. Now an unidentified group of people (or person) wants to show us just how unappealing junk food ...READ»

A Visionary, Reinventing New Orleans

Kirsha Kaechele's mother was a wild-child painter; her father was an astrophysicist at a miltary think tank, at the dawn of the Cold War—until he took acid, and gave it up. So it's safe to say that Kaechele's work does her parents ...READ»

The New Orleans 100

 This week I had lunch with a colleague who works at one of the most innovative and  creative shops around today. One might assume that his agency is based here in nYc  - but then you'd be wrong. Honest mistake though; New York ...READ»