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November 2009
A Prize Worth Pursuing
It is hard to believe Cleveland is giving away what other cities are going all out to attract. But we are. Cities such as Philadelphia, Boston and Minneapolis have made bringing immigrants to their cities one of their top priorities. Not out of the goodness of their hearts, mind you, but because they understand what we don’t: Immigrant entrepreneurs drive the U.S. economy. In 2008 Cleveland had fewer immigrants than almost any major city in America. And between 2000 and 2006, as Cleveland was losin... |
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Bill Conway
Mining sand really is a very simple business. But I’ve spent my life making it complicated. I come from a pretty large family. There were 13 of us, and I was in the middle. During World War II, my oldest brother was killed in a training accident — he was a pilot. The four other boys went off to the service, and I ended up being the oldest at home. My dad was working very, very hard at that time. He had taken over as president of Fisher Foods. My mother had children to take care of and a lot ... John Patrick 'Packy' Hyland Sr.
Packy Hyland Sr. was a salesman at heart, promoting Hyland Software from a group of five techies in an office to the 1,000-employee, $150 million software powerhouse it is today. His son A.J., Hyland Software’s CEO and one of Packy’s three sons, noticed it in the company’s early days. The duo was attending a trade show to exhibit Hyland’s OnBase software. Their booth had two sides, each outfitted with a computer for demonstration. A.J. was 23 years old, fresh out of undergrad at ... Michael Siegal
I started literally right out of college. My mother liked my résumé, so my father hired me. I came into a business where there were a number of family members. If the phone rang, you picked up the phone; you did whatever was necessary. I learned to keep my mouth shut and wait my turn. At a particular point, there’s a transition: Doing what’s right for the family may or may not take precedent over doing what is right for the business. The business issues were paramount to the family... Paul Bishop
You have to be willing to change, in life and in business. My father started this company by producing gas conversion burners for old coal furnaces. Then he started doing some metalworking when, one day, out of the blue, a man came into the office and asked if he knew how to bend metal tubing. Dad didn’t know how, but he learned. The most formative event in my life happened when I was 10 years old. We were visiting friends of my father when someone walked up to us and said our plant burned down. W... William Considine
Children’s Hospital started as a two-room day nursery where families working in the downtown factories could bring their children instead of taking them to work with them. When they were organizing , they came up with three promises: Treat every child as if that child is our own. Treat everybody the way you want to be treated. Never turn a child away for any reason. Back in 1889 ,... |
Bill Conway
Mining sand really is a very simple business. But I’ve spent my life making it complicated. I come from a pretty large family. There were 13 of us, and I was in the middle. During World War II, my oldest brother was killed in a training accident — he was a pilot. The four other boys went off to the service, and I ended up being the oldest at home. My dad was working very, very hard at that time. He had taken over as president of Fisher Foods. My mother had children to take care of and a lot ... John Patrick 'Packy' Hyland Sr.
Packy Hyland Sr. was a salesman at heart, promoting Hyland Software from a group of five techies in an office to the 1,000-employee, $150 million software powerhouse it is today. His son A.J., Hyland Software’s CEO and one of Packy’s three sons, noticed it in the company’s early days. The duo was attending a trade show to exhibit Hyland’s OnBase software. Their booth had two sides, each outfitted with a computer for demonstration. A.J. was 23 years old, fresh out of undergrad at ... Michael Siegal
I started literally right out of college. My mother liked my résumé, so my father hired me. I came into a business where there were a number of family members. If the phone rang, you picked up the phone; you did whatever was necessary. I learned to keep my mouth shut and wait my turn. At a particular point, there’s a transition: Doing what’s right for the family may or may not take precedent over doing what is right for the business. The business issues were paramount to the family... Paul Bishop
You have to be willing to change, in life and in business. My father started this company by producing gas conversion burners for old coal furnaces. Then he started doing some metalworking when, one day, out of the blue, a man came into the office and asked if he knew how to bend metal tubing. Dad didn’t know how, but he learned. The most formative event in my life happened when I was 10 years old. We were visiting friends of my father when someone walked up to us and said our plant burned down. W... William Considine
Children’s Hospital started as a two-room day nursery where families working in the downtown factories could bring their children instead of taking them to work with them. When they were organizing , they came up with three promises: Treat every child as if that child is our own. Treat everybody the way you want to be treated. Never turn a child away for any reason. Back in 1889 ,... |
Paint Job
When Jeff Johnson read Making the Impossible Possible by Pittsburgh social entrepreneur Bill Strickland, he didn’t know it would lead him to a new career. Strickland’s rise from poverty with the help of an artistic mentor resonated with Johnson, a Goodyear executive raised by his single mother in Alexandria, Va. So when Johnson learned the Cleveland Foundation wanted to replicate Strickland’s successful Manchester Bidwell program, which provides arts education to teens and market-... |
Big Blue Eggs and Ham
I do not like green eggs and ham. I will not eat them, Sam-I-am. But if you found out you had a predisposition for a particular disease and eating more green eggs and ham would help you prevent it, would you eat them in a boat? Would you eat them with a goat? And what if it weren’t Sam-I-am offering the emerald eats, but Sam-IBM? As in Sam Palmisano, CEO of IBM? Palmisano spoke at the annual Cleveland Clinic Medical Innovation Summit this October and introduced IBM’s new Personal DNA Sequenc... |
IB INDICATOR
Each month, Inside Business looks deeper into a number in the news to better understand how it affects Cleveland businesses or the local economy. This month, the indicator is: Let’s call this number Akron 2.0 … that’s how residents rated the Rubber City’s aesthetics, using a three-point scale, in a recent Soul of the Community survey commissioned by the Knight Foundation. Based on community passion and loyalty, the study identifies Summit and Portage counties’ abundance of ... Talkin’ Turkey
Like many of Ohio’s small farmers, Levi Stutzman and his son, Monroe, have had their struggles. After 30 years of Stutzman farming and milling, Monroe had to break with the family business. “There just wasn’t a market for our products,” he says. “My dad had been grinding corn into flour for as long as I could remember, but I had to go out and find a job in construction.” Six years ago, however, that changed. “All of a sudden, we saw an increase in people caring a... |
Big Blue Eggs and Ham
I do not like green eggs and ham. I will not eat them, Sam-I-am. But if you found out you had a predisposition for a particular disease and eating more green eggs and ham would help you prevent it, would you eat them in a boat? Would you eat them with a goat? And what if it weren’t Sam-I-am offering the emerald eats, but Sam-IBM? As in Sam Palmisano, CEO of IBM? Palmisano spoke at the annual Cleveland Clinic Medical Innovation Summit this October and introduced IBM’s new Personal DNA Sequenc... |
Corporate Club at Landerhaven Celebrates 20 Years of Bringing Great Minds Together
When Harlan Diamond, president of Executive Caterers, started the Corporate Club at Landerhaven series 20 years ago, he never imagined the stellar list of business and civic leaders the program would attract. Or, that two decades later, it would not only be flourishing, but growing and bringing the brightest minds to talk about the biggest issues. Corporate Club did not start as an altruistic venture. It was a marketing concept designed to bring attention to what was then a new 80,000-square-foot corpor... |
IB INDICATOR
Each month, Inside Business looks deeper into a number in the news to better understand how it affects Cleveland businesses or the local economy. This month, the indicator is: Let’s call this number Akron 2.0 … that’s how residents rated the Rubber City’s aesthetics, using a three-point scale, in a recent Soul of the Community survey commissioned by the Knight Foundation. Based on community passion and loyalty, the study identifies Summit and Portage counties’ abundance of ... Paint Job
When Jeff Johnson read Making the Impossible Possible by Pittsburgh social entrepreneur Bill Strickland, he didn’t know it would lead him to a new career. Strickland’s rise from poverty with the help of an artistic mentor resonated with Johnson, a Goodyear executive raised by his single mother in Alexandria, Va. So when Johnson learned the Cleveland Foundation wanted to replicate Strickland’s successful Manchester Bidwell program, which provides arts education to teens and market-... Talkin’ Turkey
Like many of Ohio’s small farmers, Levi Stutzman and his son, Monroe, have had their struggles. After 30 years of Stutzman farming and milling, Monroe had to break with the family business. “There just wasn’t a market for our products,” he says. “My dad had been grinding corn into flour for as long as I could remember, but I had to go out and find a job in construction.” Six years ago, however, that changed. “All of a sudden, we saw an increase in people caring a... |
The Goodbye Girl
Evelyn Burnett, 25 Former project director, Sustainable Cleveland 2019 eaburnett@gmail.com NEW CHALLENGES: Recently, Evelyn Burnett had breakfast in New York City. “It was just eggs, bacon, a couple slices of toast — nothing fancy,” Burnett says. “I got my bill, and it said $19.50. I didn’t have pancakes or anything that could help me figure out why I was about to spend $25 on breakfast.” Affordability is just one of the reasons Burnett has missed Cleveland since she ... |
Paradigm
Tech Right Now To the Friends of Paradigm Magazine : What a challenging year. The macroeconomy trends continue to waver, offering a shaken country glimpses that the Great Recession is beginning to recede, but with no job growth in sight. The microeconomy still has a profound effect on Main Street as unemployment continues to rise and banks refuse to lend. Like many of my Gen X and Gen Y compatriots, I have lived through recessions before, but nothing quite like this. No doubt many tech-based companies i... |
The Goodbye Girl
Evelyn Burnett, 25 Former project director, Sustainable Cleveland 2019 eaburnett@gmail.com NEW CHALLENGES: Recently, Evelyn Burnett had breakfast in New York City. “It was just eggs, bacon, a couple slices of toast — nothing fancy,” Burnett says. “I got my bill, and it said $19.50. I didn’t have pancakes or anything that could help me figure out why I was about to spend $25 on breakfast.” Affordability is just one of the reasons Burnett has missed Cleveland since she ... |
Corporate Club at Landerhaven Celebrates 20 Years of Bringing Great Minds Together
When Harlan Diamond, president of Executive Caterers, started the Corporate Club at Landerhaven series 20 years ago, he never imagined the stellar list of business and civic leaders the program would attract. Or, that two decades later, it would not only be flourishing, but growing and bringing the brightest minds to talk about the biggest issues. Corporate Club did not start as an altruistic venture. It was a marketing concept designed to bring attention to what was then a new 80,000-square-foot corpor... National Philanthropy Day
A Helping Hand The Association of Fundraising Professionals offers workshops, lectures and a network for individuals looking to gain knowledge in the world of giving. When Megan Coyle joined the ALS Association’s Northern Ohio Chapter as the development and special event coordinator, she didn’t have a lot of experience organizing fundraisers and auctions. “I had run events in my previous job, but running a fundraiser with a nonprofit organization is a little bit different,” Coyle... Paradigm
Tech Right Now To the Friends of Paradigm Magazine : What a challenging year. The macroeconomy trends continue to waver, offering a shaken country glimpses that the Great Recession is beginning to recede, but with no job growth in sight. The microeconomy still has a profound effect on Main Street as unemployment continues to rise and banks refuse to lend. Like many of my Gen X and Gen Y compatriots, I have lived through recessions before, but nothing quite like this. No doubt many tech-based companies i... |
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