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Every morning when you wake up, you flip a switch and the lights, incredibly, turn on. You turn the handle on a faucet and clean water, as if by magic, flows out. You put your garbage out on collection day, and by the time you return home from the office, it's as if it never existed at all.
Valentine's Day might seem like the perfect time to introduce your flower-delivery business to the world. But for a startup with not-yet-optimized processes, shorter time windows than any other florist and an incredible volume of orders, "it was just a killer," says Ajay Kori, co-founder of Washington, DC-based UrbanStems. The company launched officially on Valentine's Day 2014, and by the end of the day, the team couldn't believe it had made it through.
Even if you've never heard of What Works Studio, you may have danced in the brightly lit parade on night one of the Light City festival, or hopped on LED lily pads to see them change color in the night.
Big data shows that innovation when it comes to communication in the business world is dead, so it's time for all the thought leaders out there to stop reaching for the low-hanging fruit and start thinking outside the box.
In 2013, more than 1,100 people were killed, and 2,000 more were injured, when an eight-story building that housed clothing factories collapsed in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Despite visible cracks in the building and employee concerns, some workers say they were forced to enter the building anyway, or risk losing their jobs.
Each year, the National Aquarium in Baltimore saves $230,000 on energy costs. Those savings are not the result of cost-cutting measures that leave visitors shivering and fish in the dark. They're the result of going green. In fact, the aquarium's CEO, John Racanelli, has made conservation part of the aquarium's mission - and that is making a difference beyond the organization's balance sheet.
In "Where Are They Now?", SmartCEO takes another look at companies and CEOs previously featured on our magazine cover. Saladworks' cover story appeared in the June 2011 issue. Read it here. If your company was featured on our cover and you're interested in having us revisit your story, email [email protected].
Bhutan is not an easy place to get to, or to get around in. Just getting to Bhutan costs a small fortune, but for Clyda Stafford, the price was worth it. According to the Tourism Council of Bhutan's website, Bhutan's national airline - in fact, its only airline - is Druk Air.