EXPERT OF THE MONTH: BEAU MONDAY, INFORMATION SECURITY DIRECTOR, HAWAIIAN TELCOM, WWW.HAWAIIANTEL.COM Question: Most of my employees access their work files from home or using their personal, mobile devices. What should I do to ensure our company network is not compromised? Answer: BYOD refers to “Bring Your Own Device,” or the practice of employees using their own mobile devices for work….
New products, services and processes are a great way to increase your revenue and strengthen the bottom line. Management consultant Vino Mehta offers this guide to creating a culture of innovation: 1. Generate ideas. Encourage every employee to come up with ideas on how your product or service can be improved. Do not reject ideas if they seem laughable or…
Forget about retirement, gray hair means it’s time to launch a business What is it about people over 50? Just when they peek at that no-more-9-to-5 horizon, many do crazy things like travel the world, self-publish books or enroll in college. Some even start their own businesses. Haven’t these encore entrepreneurs heard about Hawaii’s terrible business climate? Are they gluttons…
Thursday Photographer: David Croxford >> When people on the Neighbor Islands need urgent medical care on Oahu, the employees of Hawaii Life Flight spring into action. Reporter Stacy Yuen and photographer David Croxford went behind the scenes at the company and tagged along on a flight to Lanai to pick up and bring back a sick patient. 1. Kevin Richard mans the…
Taste Table is the only place on Oahu where you can get carnitas tacos one day and a pumpkin-pie waffle the next. The innovative food venture in Kakaako that opened in October is the brainchild of four people who want to shake up the local food scene. Concept: Taste isn’t a restaurant or a pop-up. It is where established chefs can…
The most important person in creating your Best Place to Work is almost always the company’s owner or CEO, so choose well when you join an organization. The second most important person is not your immediate supervisor. It’s you. That’s not as simple as “Attitude Is Everything,” though your attitude plays a huge role. More important is your willingness to…
Pacific Links Hawaii owns five golf courses on Oahu – Kapolei, Royal Hawaiian, Makaha (West), Makaha Valley (East) and Olomana. How do you manage roles at both Pacific Links and KS? I think there’s a perception that trustees operate like they did in the old days, but now we’re not active managers. We’re not there on a day-to-day basis. The focus…
Large Companies Fitness, Healthcare and Chances to Get Ahead 1 Servco Pacific U.S. Headquarters: Honolulu www.servco.com Employees: 935 (Hawaii) Years on the BPTW List: 9 Wednesday is Rick Ching’s favorite day of the week. It’s when the executive VP of Servco Pacific heads to the company’s fitness center in a converted warehouse in Mapunapuna to play basketball with more than a dozen…
Photo: Courtesy of Hoopili For decades, “too difficult” has been the refrain in the development community. Developers believe Hawaii’s land-use laws are too complicated, environmental regulations too onerous, and deference to Native Hawaiian gathering and access rights misguided and even unconstitutional. The consequence is a long list of major development projects that have either failed or get enmeshed in tortuous,…
Some suggest an influential coalition based on Hawaiian values, not simply economic value, could help steer the Islands’ future The remnants of the Big Five, once the dominant companies in Hawaii, continued to shrink last year. The sale of more than 88,000 acres on Lanai to Oracle Corp. CEO Larry Ellison in June eliminated Castle & Cooke Hawaii as…
Hawaii’s best places to work offer many great perks for their employees and we have to admit that we’re very jealous. To help us feel better, illustrator Jon Murakami takes an irreverent view of our favorite perks. (Other Best Places to Work not listed here offer similar perks.) Categories: Best Places To Work, Business & Industry, Careers, Lifestyle, Lists &…
Photo: Courtesy of Kevin Bloom Pau Hana with Kevin Bloom Like many people, Kelvin Bloom likes to go for a drive to take his mind off work. Unlike others, Bloom drives at 200 mph or more. The president of Aston Hotels & Resorts has owned “dozens and dozens” of cars in his lifetime and has raced them on closed-circuit courses,…
Charging through five-foot swells, soaked by waves while clinging to the rail of a 34-foot boat, you realize that seeing lava flow into the ocean isn’t for wimps. “This is not your powder-puff boat ride,” says Capt. Shane Turpin. “It’s one of the most adventurous things I’ve ever done.” Turpin and his partner, Dan Smith, run Lava Ocean Tours out…
Maleña and Dominic Taylor had the Balm idea after their first child was born. Like good entrepreneurial parents, they turned their hobby of making liquid soap into a line of organic, fragrance-free soaps and skin-care products. THinc Skin (get it, Taylor House Inc.) is based on Hawaii Island and has more than two dozen cleverly named Balm products. Pits is…
You already know that healthy employees are good for business, so here are 11 strategies that companies use to keep their workers healthy and productive. 1. Keep germs at bay. “We have extensive signage throughout our facilities reminding everyone to wash their hands thoroughly and have antibacterial gel dispensers conveniently located throughout our buildings,” says Gail Lerch, executive VP of…
Name: Misha Lam Job: Jewelry Designer Experience: One year in jewelry, six in fashion design Start: From an early age, Lam knew she wanted a creative career. After graduating from Punahou School in 2001, Lam earned a bachelor’s degree in fine art from the University of Southern California, then headed to New York City to study fashion design at Parsons,…
Along with the good news that arrives with college acceptance letters comes the daunting prospect of paying for higher education. Scholarships can help, but there are so many to check out and the application process can appear overwhelming. In this article, we provide information on where to look, the most important part of the application and how to speed up…
Students crave internships that make them stand out from the crowd on a college or job application. How about a summer volunteer program that takes you halfway around the world to work with children from war-ravaged countries alongside other international volunteers? The Peace Action Children’s Team began more than a decade ago by serving children living in refugee camps during…
Professional athletes often say they love to play the game, but the best of them get paid very well to have fun. Here’s the latest balance sheet on 21 athletes currently in the major leagues who were either born in Hawaii or played college sports here. To research the salaries, we used the Spotrac website (www.spotrac.com), a well-regarded aggregator of…
PHOTO: Ka Ohi Nani The only thing Lark Willey likes to do better than grow vegetables is share them with her neighbors, which is why community-service agriculture is her perfect niche. “To be a CSA grower, you have to be service oriented. This is very different than being a commercial grower,” Willey says. CSA is a way for consumers to…
Open any celebrity magazine and you’ll likely find photos of stars living it up in Hawaii: lounging behind oversize sunglasses, playing in the surf or sipping on an umbrella-adorned drink. But not every famous person who visits the Islands is focused just on rest and relaxation. The itineraries of some A-list entrepreneurs include everything from business meetings to product sampling….
Whether you’re a woman or man, from the Baby Boom, Gen X or Gen Y, liking your job is one thing that everyone agrees is important in the workplace. Beyond that, what drives the genders and age groups can be quite different, according to our 2013 Best Places to Work survey. The BPTW project is a great place to discover…
For 13 years, the Hawaii Psychological Association has been recognizing psychologically healthy companies with its annual awards. Program chair Don Kopf says the organization looks at six criteria set by the American Psychological Association: Employee involvement in decision making on company issues; Employee growth and development; Employee recognition; Work-life balance and family support; Health and safety; and Communication. In fact, criteria used…