Hawaii Business - December 2008

December 2008

Cover Story

Features
	Success Secrets of 9 Top Leaders Hawaii Business spoke with nine people who we thought exemplified leadership in our community. Their industries and paths vary. There’s a banker who gives back, the president of a prominent... Shara Enay and Jason Ubay

Features

Success Secrets of 9 Top Leaders

Hawaii Business spoke with nine people who we thought exemplified leadership in our community. Their industries and paths vary. There’s a banker who gives back, the president of a prominent...

Shara Enay and Jason Ubay

Departments
	Spin Zone Should the Thirty-Meter Telescope (TMT) project on Mauna Kea be allowed to proceed? These professionals say why or why not.
	Talk Story Ramsay Taum Talking story with Ramsay Taum, director of external relations and community partnerships at the University of Hawaii’s School of Travel Industry Management. Dennis Hollier
	Editor's Note Editor's Desktop When I started at Hawaii Business in 1999 as a senior editor, we were a single publication, with a staff of about a dozen, sharing office space with employees of the old New City Nissan on Ala... Kelli Abe Trifonovitch
	This Month's Parting Shot: Making the Cut Kaiser Permanente Hawaii turned 50 this year, with 4,000 employees and more than 220,000 members statewide.

Departments

Spin Zone

Should the Thirty-Meter Telescope (TMT) project on Mauna Kea be allowed to proceed?

These professionals say why or why not.

Talk Story

Ramsay Taum

Talking story with Ramsay Taum, director of external relations and community partnerships at the University of Hawaii’s School of Travel Industry Management.

Dennis Hollier

Editor's Note

Editor's Desktop

When I started at Hawaii Business in 1999 as a senior editor, we were a single publication, with a staff of about a dozen, sharing office space with employees of the old New City Nissan on Ala...

Kelli Abe Trifonovitch

This Month's Parting Shot:

Making the Cut

Kaiser Permanente Hawaii turned 50 this year, with 4,000 employees and more than 220,000 members statewide.

SmallBiz

	The Pitch: Citizen Economists Citizen Economists is a magazine for non-economists. Ten unique regular writers, each with varying educational and professional backgrounds, provide economic analyses of the different industries... by Shara Enay December 2008
	Ask SmallBiz: Tech Savvy How to determine your business’ technology needs, and office equipment infrastructure. by Jim Takatsuka - Microsoft Hawaii operations December 2008
	Striving in a Tough Economy Indigé Design brings to Honolulu contemporary, Asian-inspired clothing and interior furnishings designed for Hawaii’s climate and lifestyle. by Jolyn Okimoto Rosa December 2008
	Distribution Lessons Ashley and Holly Harding of Bubble Shack Hawaiian Soap Co. share their experiences with distribution channels and the results. by Jason Ubay December 2008
	5 Steps to Exporting Internationally Establishing your product in a foreign market takes more than just international postage. Export management firm Tradewinds Global’s president Kevin Kraft offers these steps to exporting. by Jason Ubay December 2008
	Ask SmallBiz: Family Constitutions What is a Family Constitution? Do all family businesses need one? by Ken Gilbert, Family Business Expert December 2008