Author: Cindy Kibbe

Q&A with N.H. Snowmobile Association Executive Director Gail Hanson

Gail Hanson will be the first person to tell you snowmobile clubs are nearly as busy in the summer as they are in the winter

Q&A with N.H. Public Radio President Betsy Gardella

‘I would say that we really make the most of the fact that we are a small-market station,’ said Betsy Gardella, president and CEO of NHPR. ‘We think of ourselves as an innovation hub for public media.’

Q&A with Derryfield Head of School Mary Carter

Dr. Mary Carter was named head of The Derryfield School in January, after serving in a variety of roles at the Manchester independent prep institution since 1997, including interim head.

Q&A with Capital Regional Development Council’s Stephen Heavener

‘Every single thing that we do is focused on job retention or creation, or enhancing the property tax base,’ says Stephen Heavener

QA with 'Life planner' Robin Young

When Windham financial professional Robin Young mentions terms like “visioning,” “passage” and “holistic,” you know that this is a very different kind of financial planner. Young, owner and president of Windham-based Northstar Financial Planning, practices life planning, a method of…

Karen Pollard, 2011 Outstanding Woman in Business

Economic Development Manager, City of Rochester

Maren Boothby, 2011 Outstanding Woman in Business

Owner, Boothby Therapy Services

Maureen Beauregard, 2011 Outstanding Woman in Business

President, Families In Transition

Beware the departing employee

Over the past three months, the sales manager has been absent more than usual. He generated 30 percent fewer sales in the quarter. He has been unresponsive to his fellow employees for several weeks, and he has not returned calls…

Insurance alliances slow to start in N.H.

There's much more to forming a purchasing alliance than pulling together a group of small businesses to go on a shopping trip for health insurance

Remember the good old days?

It was a sultry July day in 2002 when I met Dan at an International Management Consultants breakfast in Burlington. We chatted and discovered we were both sailors. In fact, Dan had lived on a boat in Newport, R.I., while…

Kathryn Underwood, 2010 Outstanding Woman in Business

President and CEO, Ledyard National Bank

Deb Titus, 2010 Outstanding Woman in Business

Managing Director, Dale Carnegie - New Hampshire

Leslie Sturgeon, 2010 Outstanding Woman in Business

Founder, Women Inspiring Women

Melanie Gosselin, 2010 Outstanding Woman in Business

Executive Director, New Hampshire Food Bank

Laurie Ferguson, 2010 Outstanding Woman in Business

Executive Director, NH Made

Mary DeVeau, 2010 Outstanding Woman in Business

President and CEO, Concord Regional Visiting Nurse Association

Q&A with Technology Entrepreneur Mark Galvin

"At heart, I am an engineer, so my interest is to see my products proliferate. I want to see them end up in as many people’s hands and make as many people happy as possible"

Q&A with Craft beer pioneer Peter Egleston

Peter Egelston, president of Smuttynose Brewing Co., was largely responsible for breathing life into the nascent microbrewery industry — brewers that make no more than 15,000 barrels per year — in New England back in the 1980s. In 1987, he…

Sohl receives angel investing award

Jeffrey Sohl, director of the Center for Venture Research at the University of New Hampshire in Durham, is the 2006 recipient of the Hans Severiens Award from the Angel Capital Education Foundation. The award honors an individual whose accomplishments have…

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In NH, U.S. energy secretary says clean energy is expensive; urges approval of natural gas pipeline

With gasoline near $4 a gallon and healing oil prices expected to jump this winter, U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright on Thursday said clean energy initiatives are partly to blame for high prices of energy. Wright, the founder and former chief-executive of a Denver-based oil-services and fracking company, spoke within eyesight of a small solar array at the Raymond district office of the New Hampshire Electric Co-op.

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Why growing companies are rethinking legal leadership

Most privately held companies view legal counsel as an expense that arrives after a dreaded event. A contract dispute surfaces, an employee threatens a claim, a deal stalls in diligence, and only then does the phone call to outside counsel get made.

Making a bid on workforce development

New Hampshire employers are seeking polished professionals with real-life experiences, but they may have to look beyond the traditional recruiting methods to find them. One example of an overlooked workforce development program is the NH 4-H Livestock Auction.