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While in her senior year at LSU, one of Alicia Vidrine’s professors posed a simple question to her during an encounter at the student...

Like a great symphony, Amanda Martin’s career has had a lot of twists and turns but plenty of high notes—all leading to a crescendo,...

Cheri Johnson didn’t seek to be a hospital executive. It sought her. Before becoming the executive vice president of patient care and chief nursing officer...

When Tessa Holloway was approached in 2006 to purchase a child care center in Port Allen, she was a manager at Blockbuster with no...

Woman’s Hospital. The Port of New Orleans. Ochsner Health. LCMC Health. The University Medical Center in New Orleans. The expansions of I-10 in Baton...

While growing up in Metairie, Melissa Dotson thought she was destined for a career in medicine. Her mother even sent her to Latin camp...

One of Louisiana’s most challenging moments led to a formative period in Rachel DiResto’s career. It was the mid-2000s, and DiResto was working as vice...

Is AI right for a law firm? It’s one of the many critical decisions that Lana Crump has tackled in her role as a partner...

Jodi Conachen’s childhood career goal was simple: “I wanted to matter.” Though her aspirations changed over the years while growing up in Baton Rouge, Conachen...

Few social institutions feel the pressure of high expectations like law enforcement, and fewer still do it while also juggling a diminishing workforce. If...

In retrospect, 2008 probably wasn’t the best year for the managers of Pala Group to borrow money and begin transitioning into an employee-owned company. The...

The Rolling Stones' She’s a Rainbow blasts from the speakers of the Raising Cane’s River Center as Jaime Glas Odom glides down a red...

Over the course of its storied history, few events have altered Louisiana like Hurricane Katrina. The mammoth storm slammed into the coast in August 2005,...

Nannette Noland has always been a bit ahead of her time. Her father taught her how to drive a car once she could see...

A ballroom filled with Hollywood heavyweights was a far cry from the ballfields of the late George A. Foster Jr.’s tiny Louisiana hometown of...

Garbage can get expensive. Ask any apartment complex, higher education institution or manufacturing facility with a roll-off and a waste management contract. Filled dumpsters require...

In a field of seven major candidates, he was the last one in. Then the head of the Louisiana Association of Business and Industry, he...

An avid outdoor sportsperson for most of his life, Logan Meaux noticed a problem with booking hunting and fishing trips—there was no centralized marketplace...

The Speedy Eats founder: You have to be 'tenacious' about raising capital and never let quitting enter your mind.

Entrepreneur: Thomas Schumacher, inspired working in real estate along 30A, launched River Homes, a property management and vacation rentals company.