Topic: Tennessee

Workers Spanked for Poor Performance

The other day I posted an item defending the progressive pockets of my native Tennessee. Maybe I jumped the gun. There's a story on the AP wires today about two women in Red Bank, Tennessee (outside of Chattanooga), who complained to ...READ»

Farm Chic

America's luxurious rustic getaway gets in touch with its roots--and lets you do the same.READ»

Public Interest

A modest proposal to save the newspaper trade.READ»

The Business of Barbecue

Where's the beef? During National Barbecue Month, it's usually sizzling over charcoal with pork, poultry, and (sometimes) veggies. As Memorial Day, the unofficial beginning of the summer grill season, looms, the industry remains red hot. Here's a tasting platter of stats.READ»

How many companies does it take to change a light bulb? One.

Yesterday, we got the following letter from the president of a Tennessee company: “I was so inspired by the article by Charles Fishman on CFLs that my company is now sending one compact fluorescent lightbulb with every ...READ»

The Helmet Saves Lives in Motorcycle Crashes

While it might not be the most chic apparel you will ever wear, a motorcycle crash helmet may save your life.READ»

25 Top Women Business Builders

Meet the winners of our first-ever awards for women business owners. They're a dynamic, inspiring group -- with lots to teach us all.READ»

What's Wrong With Our Cities? A Two-Minute Video Explains

The Congress for New Urbanism recently held a competition to explain just what the connection is between urban planning and the environment--and if you're fuzzy on the issue, you need to watch the winning video, created by John ...READ»

What You Don't Nose Can't...

I'm a little late to the jump on this, but going through my vast read-and-rip pile this afternoon, I came across a September item from Newsweek's wonderful Perspectives column: "We'll know it when we smell it." Murfreesboro, Tenn., ...READ»

Fast Talk: The New IT Agenda

CIOs and CTOs offer straight talk about their most strategic investments (and how they justify them).READ»

The Temptation Of Superfly

Its genre-busting all-night jam-athons evolved into the country's biggest music festival--and turned Superfly Productions into a real business. Can it stay alive without losing its soul?READ»

Al Gore Inc.

"I have really enjoyed the business world much more than I expected," says the former Vice President. Among his business and financial interests.READ»

Shoring Up

Wrigley is relocating a factory that produces Altoids mints from Wales to Tennessee. I wonder if this will start a new trend: companies strengthening American operations. Or does this move have to do more with Wales being a poor ...READ»

"Sexting": Why Worry?

Reports of "sexting"--or teens sending each other homemade pornographic images using their phones--have exploded in recent weeks. Schools and parents are outraged and terrified, and lawyers are confused, because most child ...READ»

Shed Twenty Pounds

Thanks to high-tech and design advancements, outdoor adventurers can now cut their load in half.READ»

Testing The Future

You either design your future, or you can just let it fall on you.READ»

Ben & Jerry's Imagine Peace Online

All the world needs is peace, love and ice cream -- at least according to Ben & Jerry's. To spotlight the ice cream enterprise's newest creation, "Imagine Whirled Peace," (a swirl of sweet cream-flavored ice cream, ...READ»

The Ballad of Clayton Homes

Berkshire Hathaway's $1.7 billion acquisition of a mobile-home company seemed like a perfect match. Then shareholders got a look, and a folksy tale suddenly turned ugly.READ»

Your Online DNA...Social Networking for Business Part 2

Innovation in today's business environment calls for accepting the need to be visible online. You will be searched and researched. This relatively new process for learning about vendors, prospects, employees and others is one of ...READ»

Google's Data Show Tennessee, Florida Most Troubled Over Health Care

Google's philanthropic Flu Trends site has been able to track swine flu about as well as health care surveillance, according to Bloomberg. What else can trending searches tell us about the state of health in the United ...READ»

Feedback

Medical Tourism / Our May cover story -- on Silicon Valley startup Ning and its CEO, Gina Bianchini -- attracted plenty of interest, but it was a thornier subject that drew the broadest range of comment: the outsourcing of health care ...READ»

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Fast Talk: Life Savers

It is the most important industry the world will ever know--keeping people alive. It's a huge undertaking by physicians, researchers, product engineers, and more. We asked some of the best: How do they save lives?READ»

Memphis - Capital of the Real World

It's the nation's busiest distribution center. And its concentration of trucks, trains, forklifts, and planes keeps all kinds of stuff - and the economy - on the move.READ»

Feedback

Fighting Words We like our columnists to stir up controversy, and Nancy Lublin certainly came through in Fast Company's first Do Something column, "No Vacancy." Readers felt strongly, both pro ("a spanking good article") ...READ»

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5 Years of Who's Fast

Who's Fast 2003 marks our fifth-annual celebration of the unsung heroes and rising stars of business. As a group, they represent a new generation of leaders who blend integrity and imagination, brains and guts. What follows is a roster of Who's Fast profiles from prior years (titles and company affiliations reflect each person's status at the time of their selection).READ»