Business
October 31, 2009
Louis, Louis
The CEO of Louis Vuitton’s North American division talks about the new store at NorthPark, Marc Jacobs, and knockoffs.
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Business
March 31, 2009
Ace of Cakes
Wes Hurt makes people happy—one cupcake at a time.
Business
March 1, 2009
Our Very Own Bernie Madoff
Maybe the collapse of the Stanford Group isn’t Enron, but Houston wasn’t about to be left out of the financial scandals.
Business
January 1, 2009
The Great Developer
Trammell Crow made millions based on what he called hunches—warehouses, atrium marts, huge hotels—and amazingly, most of his deals he did on a handshake.
Business
December 1, 2008
Auto Pilot
With the Big Three teetering on the brink, it’s worth noting that the Toyota plant in San Antonio is still motoring. Oh, what a feeling!
Business
May 31, 2008
The Kitchen Is Closed
Forty years ago, Pete Dominguez and his Mexican restaurants were the toast of Dallas. Now he’s alone, broke, and nearly forgotten.
Business
May 31, 2008
Herb Kelleher
“If a shoe factory closes in Seattle, you can’t move it to San Antonio and have it competing there within a couple of hours, but with airplanes you can. I’ve always said that I want us to strike with the speed and alacrity of a puma.”
Business
April 30, 2008
Abby McAfee Daigle, Wedding Planner
Born and raised in Austin, Daigle has helped pour champagne, choose flowers, taste cake, and pick color schemes for more than one hundred brides. Her family owns and runs a wedding and event facility in Austin.I’ve been working at Barr Mansion since they would let me. I started when I
Business
April 30, 2008
Starting a Business
Sweet Leaf Tea’s founder on starting a business.
Business
March 1, 2008
Bryan Christian, Advertising Executive
Christian, who grew up in Waco and majored in English at Baylor University, is the senior vice president and general manager of Kolar Advertising and Marketing, in Austin, whose clients include Dell, 3M, and Subway.All during college, I thought I would graduate and go to seminary or something like that.
Business
February 1, 2008
Dave Stephenson
If you think high school sports are too slick, too big-time, or too professional, just wait. When this Ohio transplant has his way—and he will—they’re going to get slicker, bigger, and much more pro. Stephenson, the former president of Dave Campbell’s Texas Football, founded Titus Sports Marketing in 2003. The
Business
February 1, 2008
Michael MacDougall
If you were the guy who shepherded the largest leveraged buyout in history, you’d be on this list too. It was early in 2007 when we became aware of the Austin-bred honors graduate of both UT and Harvard Business School who now inhabits the off-the-radar-screen world of private equity; he
Business
February 1, 2008
Liz Lambert
She’s the avatar of cool for the inn crowd’s in crowd. Thirteen years ago the native Odessan, a UT and UT Law grad, purchased a seedy motel on South Congress Avenue, in Austin, and transformed it, with the help of San Antonio’s Lake/Flato architects and designer pals from California, into
Business
February 1, 2008
Denise Fulton
Gaming has come a long way since the days of Pong and Asteroids. At the vanguard of the latest wave of interactive, multiplayer video games is this native of Bowling Green, Ohio, one of the few women in the industry to crack the ranks of upper management. As the studio
Business
February 1, 2008
George P. Bush
Yes, he’s that George Bush—the dynastic spawn, the son of Jebby, nephew of W., and grandson of 41, who famously referred to him, once upon a time, as “the little brown one” (his mother, Columba, is Mexican). But he’s also very much his own man, and in short order he’s
Business
September 30, 2007
The Unbankables
All over Dallas are working-class dreamers with more will than wallet, would-be entrepreneurs who’d start their own businesses if only they had savings, good credit, home equity. That’s what brings them to the PLAN Fund.
Business
January 1, 2007
Texas Myth# 31
Did The Texas Chainsaw Massacre really happen?
Business
June 30, 2006
Guilty Pleasure
Kenny, we hardly knew ye. Okay, maybe we knew you too well. The jury, at least, seems to have pegged you just right. You too, Skilling.
Business
April 1, 2006
Tree Ring Circus
Why did the feds spend seventeen years pursuing a baseless billion-dollar lawsuit against Houston financier Charles Hurwitz? To help environmentalists take away his old-growth California redwoods. Your tax dollars at work.
Business
February 1, 2006
The Man In the White Hat
To hear John Poindexter tell it, he’s one of the good guys—a faithful steward of his West Texas land and therefore a worthy bidder for 46,000 acres of Big Bend Ranch State Park. But sometimes having your heart in the right place simply isn’t enough.
Business
January 1, 2006
The Bidness Myth
Rethinking the way we do business—and government—down here.
Business
January 1, 2006
Retail Politics
Along a seventeen-mile stretch of Interstate 35 sits a theoretical dividing line between red-state and blue-state America. In Austin, the flagship Whole Foods attracts your typical wine-sipping, tree-hugging, Volvo-driving liberals. In Buda, the massive Cabela’s is a magnet for beer-guzzling, gun-toting, flag-waving conservatives. From these consumer preferences, voting habits are
Business
September 30, 2005
Rental Illness
When people hear I’m a landlady, they tell me I should have my head examined. Yep.
Business
September 30, 2005
Red McCombs
“I’ve had my failures and my mistakes. I don’t dwell on them. So I don’t have anything dragging me down at any given time.”
Business
July 31, 2005
Edward E. Whitacre Jr.
“The worry is that we’re going to put the Bell system back together. You hear that a lot. Anybody who says that is just not informed.”
Business
May 31, 2005
Boone Pickens
“The record’s clean. I’m sure that I haven’t done everything that everyone would like me to do. But I’ve never hurt anybody.”
Business
March 1, 2005
John Mackey
“I used to resent the fact that people romanticize Whole Foods. I always wanted to shake them and say, ‘Gosh, we’re just a grocery store!’ ”
Business
January 1, 2005
The Dallas Morning Blues
Why isn’t this man smiling? If you were the chairman of Belo, the suddenly stumbling media conglomerate, you wouldn’t be smiling either. Then again, Robert Decherd is sure there’s only good news ahead.
Business
December 1, 2004
Gordon Bethune
“It isn’t about cheap. You can make a pizza so cheap nobody will eat it. You can make an airline so cheap nobody will fly it. It’s about the product.”
Business
August 31, 2004
O, Canadian!
The Panhandle town may be the first in Texas to decide to base its economy on nature tourism. Judging by the results, it won't be the last.
Business
August 31, 2004
Yes in My Backyard
To say that the private prison in Eden doesn't creep out the locals is an understatement. They're downright thankful for the place.
Business
June 30, 2004
Smooth Operator
Associate editor Katy Vine on Houston businessman Tilman Fertitta and his impact on Galveston's tourism revival.
Business
June 30, 2004
Fertittaville
Restaurant mogul Tilman Fertitta means to redevelop Galveston into what some say will be a Gulf Coast version of Atlantic City. No wonder he's making waves.
Business
April 30, 2004
Michael Dell
The 39-year-old computer mogul on stepping down as CEO of the company he founded, why he doesn’t play footsie with the press (hey!), and the product line he should have launched years ago.
News & Politics
April 30, 2004
The Metamorphosis
If you want to understand the shift in political power that has taken place in Texas over the past thirty years—from rural areas to the new suburbs, from Democratic control to Republican dominance—you'll hardly find a better case study than Tom DeLay's Sugar Land.
Music
April 1, 2004
It’s a Family Affair
For all her talent and poise, Beyoncé didn’t become the biggest star in the world without help. And she got plenty of it from the people who know her best.
Business
February 1, 2003
Mother Nurture
The secret to running Southwest Airlines? Be sentimental. Share. And love.
Business
September 30, 2002
Did Dick Cheney Sink Halliburton (And Will It Sink Him?)
Well, the vice president of the United States was a mediocre CEO, but the company will be just fine. And, despite what you've read in the papers, so will he.
Behind the Lines
March 1, 2002
Spare The Message
The real Enron scandal.
Business
March 1, 2002
Swamped!
If you're looking for endless stretches of pristine coastline, more birds than you can count, and the state's largest concentration of alligators, then Port Arthur is your gateway to an unexpected adventure.
Business
March 1, 2002
Stanley Marcus
Mimi Swartz sizes up the legacy of Stanley Marcus.
Energy
November 1, 2001
How Enron Blew It
The Houston-based energy giant put the pursuit of profits ahead of all other corporate goals, which fostered a climate of workaholism and paranoia. And that was only part of the problem.
Business
November 1, 2001
Dreade Locke
Russell Erxleben and Brian Russell Stearns were first-rate frauds who cheated scores of unsuspecting investors. So how did the prominent law firm of Locke, Liddell, and Sapp get stuck footing a $30 million bill?
Sports
August 31, 2001
Earl Campbell
He has moved from pig skin to pork sausage, but he's still trying to score.
Business
January 1, 2001
Texas History 101
The story behind Frost Bank's rise.
Business
January 1, 2001
Video Killers
Why the state's programmers are voting for gore.
Business
January 1, 2001
Hello, Mr. Chips
Texas Instruments looks to cash in on its chips.
Business
May 31, 2000
Splurge! Merge! Purge!
Six months after the merger of Exxon and Mobil, a tally of the winners and losers.
Business
March 1, 2000
Meetmarket.com
At Austin’s High-tech Happy Hour, the schmoozing and boozing is about finding your next job. And, maybe, landing a cute millionaire.
Business
March 1, 2000
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