Author: Jeff Hawe
Leadership

Hawaiʻi's Top 250 Companies 2020

Ranking Hawai‘i’s Biggest Companies and Nonprofits Highlights from the Top 250: Big Changes in Energy, Health Care and Tech Ever wanted a time machine so you could go back in time? We’ve built one, and we call it the Top…
Insurance

Insurance Shake-Up in Hawai‘i

Local expert foresees big changes in some premiums – up or down depending on companies’ situations – plus interest by businesses in newer forms of insurance COVID-19’s transformation of the economy has extended to the insurance industry and its local customers. Russell…
Business Trends

Hawai‘i Coworking Spaces Adapt to COVID-19 Crisis

When their operations were derailed by COVID-19, three coworking communities pivoted so they could keep supporting their social enterprises, entrepreneurs and startups Coworking spaces are designed to foster innovation. So it is no surprise that these three collaborative communities pivoted…
Marketing

6 Tips for Effective Social Media Marketing

Smart strategy and effective execution in social media are the difference between  results and Just about every business uses social media for marketing. But how you use social media makes all the difference. “Every business should be marketing via social…
Business Trends

Sustainability Called a Key New Trend in Investing

It was also a major theme at the East Meets West conference, which brought together investors, entrepreneurs and professionals from around the Pacific Venture capital’s investments in startups will focus more on sustainability in the coming decade, according to a…
Technology

The U.H. Brain Lab Watched Me Think

he lab’s studies into the human mind open many possibilities, including helping paralyzed people to speak and improving traffic safety There were 68 wires protruding from the cap on my head, which allowed a whole team of researchers to look…
Small Business

Aloha Got Soul

Record label delivers new and old music from outside Hawai‘i’s mainstream oger Bong doesn’t want people to have a narrow idea of Hawai‘i. That’s one reason he shares unique and interesting music from Hawai‘i’s past and present with audiences worldwide.…
Small Business

Great Ideas for Small Local Stores

“The way people buy things has been changing over the last decade, but I feel like people haven’t changed. They still want to have that connection, they still want that personal experience,” says Dylan Butterbaugh, founder and owner of Manoa…
Parting Shot

Exploring the Other Final Frontier

The Hawai‘i Undersea Research Laboratory is home to two of the world’s eight manned deep diving research submersibles. Operations director Terry Kerby (pictured) says that once a year, HURL’s two subs, Pisces IV and Pisces V, are loaded on an…

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