Barry Taniguchi, chairman and CEO of KTA Super Stores, a Hawaii Island grocery store chain, died on Sept. 20 from medical complications. Taniguchi was a well-respected business leader and known for his involvement in numerous professional, civic and community organizations,…
Thursday evening at historic Washington Place was magic: Hawai‘i's current business and nonprofit leaders met with emerging leaders from many walks of life.
Feel free to steal these ideas – they might work at your company too! Dani Aiu’s prestigious career in banking began with her natural ability to talk story…
Four local leaders discuss what resilience means, how to bounce back from failure and how to build resilience into your teams so they persevere and succeed. ere are edited and condensed excerpts from a workshop held at the 2018 Hawaii…
Full time business partner, full time family member – the typical woman in a family business has to juggle being the mom/wife/daughter/sister AND company leader. You see your family members at work and your business partners at home too. Sound…
The longtime Marriott executive has been at HTA less than a year, but Tatum’s strategic changes are already clear: a flattening bureaucracy, a reduced fixation on the number of tourists and a shifting of marketing dollars. Q: What organizational changes…
Latham became Punahou School’s 17th president in July. He returns to his alma mater – he graduated in 1986 – after spending most of his adult life on the Mainland in teaching and administrative roles. He talks about how the…
Kalama grew up in poverty but had a successful banking career and now leads a nonprofit that provides $12 million in grants annually in Hawai‘i. He is using his personal and professional experience to seek answers to some of Hawai‘i’s…
Tomorrow’s business leaders need to do more than set examples in their workplaces. They also have a responsibility to help Hawaiʻi tackle its biggest challenges. “We look at an issue in business or in education, and we can look at…
