BUSINESS

02/24/2010

TEDxSMU organizers thinking big for second event as it moves to downtown Dallas
Geoffrey Orsak is learning that success breeds challenges.

02/21/2010

Woman's made-to-order pillows are turning heads
Merrimac Dillon wants to put your mind at rest. She thinks she has just the sleep-inducing remedy.

02/17/2010

Container Store co-founder shares secret shopping encounters
If Garrett Boone could, he would ban retail workers from asking, "How are you doing today?" and "Can I help you find anything?"

02/14/2010

Sisters 'Red' and 'Black' pepper financial book with true-life details
There is nothing typical about Tina Pennington and Mandy Williams' book or how it came to market.

02/07/2010

At airport, hospital, entrepreneur offers diners a healthy alternative
Tasty, healthy fast food sounds like an oxymoron. Gina Puente-Brancato is out to prove that it doesn't have to be.

02/03/2010

NBA's Gail Hunter prepares for next week's All-Star Weekend
Gail Hunter is about to put on the greatest party for basketball fans in the history of the sport.

01/31/2010

Dallas store hits a double with two rare baseball-card finds on same day
Nick Redwine and his wife, Debbie, have been in the trading card business in Far North Dallas for 21 years. But the couple never had a day as exciting as Jan. 6, when they sold two remarkably valuable cards.

01/27/2010

Legal aid weighs on mind of new Dallas Bar Association chief
Ike Vanden Eykel, one of the most expensive attorneys in town, will spend half his time this year working for nothing.

Legal aid weighs on mind of new Dallas Bar Association chief
Ike Vanden Eykel, one of the most expensive attorneys in town, will spend half his time this year working for nothing.

01/24/2010

Don't expect economy's recovery to be quick, experts warn
T he mood has dramatically improved in the 13 months since The News ' first gathering of top business leaders.

01/20/2010

To save face, companies must start on the inside

01/17/2010

Former SMU football teammates' T-shirt business is a hit with Dallas-area sports teams
Adam Walterscheid and Jeff Henderson will gladly trade sleep for a repeat of last week.

01/13/2010

Turnaround pro prescribes firing even family, squeezing vendors
George Cloutier aspires to be the Vince Lombardi of small business. The 63-year-old turnaround expert is happy to be creating a buzz and drawing some heat with his audacious book, Profits Aren't Everything, They're the Only Thing.

01/10/2010

Words to live by come pouring in
I'm happy to report that common sense is uncommonly important.

01/03/2010

Dallas-area movers and shakers share the thoughts that guide them
To get us off to a fresh start in 2010, I asked business, academic and community leaders to share a guiding truism. I was overwhelmed with wonderful responses.

12/30/2009

Radio show host Blasingame says face-to-face meetings vital to business
Jim Blasingame worries that we're becoming a faceless society.

12/27/2009

Fund bets on bargains and wins
Given the nearly 30 percent run-up in the stock market, the incredible bargains available this time last year are harder to find and not quite so cheap.

12/20/2009

Restaurateur Dee Lincoln finds football, wine make a fine pairing
Two hours before the kickoff of the Dallas-San Diego game, the good times are already rolling at Dee Lincoln's Tasting Room & Bubble Bar on the Silver Suite level of Cowboys Stadium.

12/23/2009

Dallas firm's index confirms that public isn't buying what Tiger Woods is selling
Tiger Woods may still be the world's greatest golfer, but almost no one wants to be him or trusts him or likes him. His value as an advertising pitchman is pretty much nonexistent.

12/13/2009

Dallas banker's fall from grace was merely a detour

REX C. CURRY/Special Contributor

Jody Grant says receiving the Horatio Alger Award for 2010 "is the greatest honor I’ve ever had."

His early travails, his fall from grace in the late 1980s banking world and his remarkable rebound with Texas Capital Bank in Dallas just earned Jody Grant the Horatio Alger Award for 2010.

12/09/2009

SMU institute aims to attack world poverty through innovation
No one can accuse Geoffrey Orsak of thinking small.

12/08/2009

Leaders gather to pay tribute to Dallas icon Henry S. Miller Jr.
You had to believe Henry S. Miller Jr. would have enjoyed his own funeral.

12/06/2009

Video producer sharpens focus on bad guys to help justice prevail
Tucked away in a warehouse in the Design District near downtown, Jim Appleton's "crime lab" doesn't look anything like CSI 's glitzy digs on TV. And Appleton doesn't have the gee-whiz technology that can zero in on license plate numbers a football field away.

11/29/2009

Dougherty's Pharmacy celebrates 80 years and sticks to its formula

COURTNEY PERRY/DMN

Compounding technicians Meredith Miller (right) and Kristin Ziglar prepare capsules in the lab at Dougherty’s Pharmacy.

Dougherty's Pharmacy really shouldn't be celebrating its 80th anniversary. It should be long gone, like so many neighborhood mom-and-pop drugstores. Instead, the mainstay of Preston Royal Village – 42 years at this location – is Dallas' oldest, largest and best-known full-service pharmacy.
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