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You Can't Control Everything

Diane von Furstenberg knows that things will go wrong, and that she’ll have doubts—even today! But she says there’s one thing entrepreneurs always can control: themselves.

Forever Is a Long Time

The singular practices and spectacular flameout of Forever 21

Nobody Makes Money Like Leon Black

Michael Milken’s protégé is at the top of the private equity food chain

A Housing Start for Microsoft

The company is increasing its nine-figure, loan-centric pledge to the Seattle area by 50%. There’s still a lot left to do

Can The Renault-Nissan Marriage Be Saved?

The automakers’ global alliance is fraying now that its architect, Carlos Ghosn, is out

Five Strategies For Franchise Growth

Every year, a few companies show massive gains in our Franchise 500 list by either leaping hundreds of spots or making a strong debut. How do they do it? We called them to ask.

The Hottest Chill In Franchising

Cryotherapy is the new wellness trend in franchising, and more than a dozen brands have already cropped up. Will it stick around like yoga or dissipate like oxygen bars? The truth is, it might not matter.

Franchising's Fountain Of Youth

Young franchisees often prove to be a franchisor’s biggest asset. The challenge is finding them, funding them, and letting them take control.

Restaurant rescue?

Jon Taffer, host and executive producer of the TV show Bar Rescue, sees problems lurking in the franchise food space. To fix them, he’s opening his own restaurant concept, called Taffer’s Tavern. Will it work?

People Are Not Data

Want to really connect with consumers? Take it from me, a guy who ran marketing at You Tube, Spotify, Google, and Instagram : You can’t rely on data alone. It’s time to build some truly human connections.

The Founder & The Idea Man

The founder of MeUndies would have never met a man named Grease if both of them hadn’t ended up in the same federal prison. But their friendship changed everything (including the business).

Garden Respite

Lakeland’s 1.2-Acre Hollis Garden Delights and Mesmerizes

CULTIVATING Communication

Auburndale FFA Member Jacquelyn Edler Wins Essay Contest Connecting Agriculture Consumers, Producers

INDUSTRY'S BEST

Meet the 2020 Citrus Hall of Fame Inductees

Ag Time WITH ABBY

New Year’s Resolutions

Healing Power Of Nature

University of Florida Teaching Horticulture therapy by

Better, Stronger, Fresher

In their constant quest to find the best genetic traits to help plants stand up better to heat, drought, flood, pests and pathogens and to find the tastiest fruits, UF/IFAS breeders develop new varieties each year.

Taste Of Something New

UF/IFAS Scientists Developing Recipe for Growing Vanilla in South Florida

Mushroom Medicine

Psilocybin is edging toward FDA approval as a treatment for particularly tough cases of depression

The Big Drug That Couldn't

Sanofi had high hopes for its new cholesterol medicine. Then health-care economics kicked in

Frayed in Taiwan

As Hongkong Taiwan chooses between two vision of its future

Chronicle of a fire foretold

Vast swaths of Australia are in flames—and the country’s plight has put a global focus on climate change

The $1 Billion Solar Relic

By the time the massive Crescent Dunes plant came on line, it was already outdated

Carlos Ghosn's Great Escape

The auto chief’s audacious flight to Beirut isn’t the end of his battle with Japanese prosecutors—or Nissan

Cable Lost—But Streamers Aren't Celebrating Yet

People have been talking about the streaming era for so long that it’s hard to imagine the tipping point just happened.

EDUCATION SYSTEM IN GHANA

High School teachers in Ghana have been on strike for the past week for non-payment of some teachers’ salaries. It also happens to be the examination week before the Christmas break. A High School teacher I spoke with confirmed he had not been paid for three months. Other teachers mentioned higher figures.As at Friday the 13th of December 2019, serious negotiations behind closed doors had been ongoing between the Teachers’ Union and the Ghana Education to resolve the impasse.That, in a nutshell, sums the state of education in Ghana.

BLACK WALL STREET

Prior to the massacre of May 31, 1921, when a mob of white men over two days burnt the black district of Greenwood to the ground, it was one of the most Affluent African American districts in the entire United States.Founded on Indian Territory in 1906 by Mr. O.C. Gurley and his family, a wealthy land owner, who purchased 40 acres of land in Tulsa, named it Greenwood after a Mississippi town. Gurley was able to purchase this land through the Dawes Act. A US Law that gave land to individual Native Americans and many Black Sharecroppers looking for better opportunities in a post-Civil War era and from racial oppression.Oklahoma was considered a safe haven and became home to more than 50 black townships in the State.

Polk Radiation Oncologist Offers New Treatment for Brain Cancer

A CANCER DIAGNOSIS is never good news, but a diagnosis of glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is probably the worst news a patient can receive.

PATIENT CARE: It's Not WHAT You Do, It's EVERYTHING You Do

PERHAPS ONE of the most fundamental aspects of medicine is patient care. Simple enough, right? But we know it’s not so cut and dry. We know patient care encompasses everything from bedside manner and cutting-edge research to patient privacy and hospital administration. In the end, doesn’t all the hard work and progress the medical community makes come down to one thing? You guessed it— the patient.

Leading By Example

New Advent CEO Has Passion for Company’s Healing Ministry