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• CORRECTION: University Athletics Featured at New Winston-Salem, N.C., Shop.

  - 2004-05-14

  By Fran Daniel, Winston-Salem Journal, N.C. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 14--The Winston-Salem Journal, N.C., has moved a new version of the story slugged WN-UNIV-STORE, filed by Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News for May 14. The new version corrects the bookstore's 2003...

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• Son's Car Crash Divides Attention of CEO of Winston-Salem, N.C., Spin-off Firm.

  - 2004-04-27

  By M. Paul Jackson, Winston-Salem Journal, N.C. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Apr. 27--Despite the financial struggles of Pilot Therapeutics Holdings Inc., Floyd "Ski" Chilton, the company's chief executive officer, was determined to stick with the transplanted South Carolina business, Chilton ...

  Tags: accident, car, FINANCE, financial, incentive, Quintiles Transnational Corp., SALES, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem

• Winston-Salem, N.C., Textile Manufacturer to Downsize, Move to Yadkinville.

  - 2003-12-08

  By Richard Craver, Winston-Salem Journal, N.C. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 8--Briggs-Shaffner Co., one of Winston-Salem's oldest manufacturers, said yesterday that it will move to a smaller building in Yadkinville by mid-January as it shrinks in line with the U.S. textile...

  Tags: FINANCE, Manufacturing, SALES, Taxes, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem

• Turning the tables: bigwigs are stirring up the kids' furniture market. But when the sawdust settles, entrepreneurs prove they can play, too

  - 2002-09-01

  THE CHILDREN RUN INTO THE ROOM TO play. Inside, the table and chair are hand-painted in a sailor motif, and the bed has scalloped edges with a matching pillow and comforter set. Anyone with kids knows that a child's room can mix whimsy and practicality. And anyone in the children's...

  Tags: entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, furniture, MBA, SALES, Wake Forest University

• Money Can't buy love in a high-tech merger.(Brief Article)

  - 2001-06-01

  Michael Lord is an assistant professor of management at Wake Forest University's Babcock Graduate School of Management. He recently co-authored a study that found that social, not financial, incentives are critical to retaining key employees after a merger made to gain knowledge. The study included 89...

  Tags: acquisition, autonomy, FINANCE, financial, incentive, Investment, Lord, merger, SALES, Wake Forest University

• Rivals agree that a cure for Cone is in the jeans

  - 2000-01-01

  The Battle between management and a Minnesota investment group for Greensboro-based Cone Mills Corp. raises a big question: Why would anyone want to spend millions of dollars on a moneylosing textile company? To the group led by investment manager Marc Kozberg, the answer is simple:...

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• Lowdown on unemployment. (North Carolina) (Economic Outlook)

  - 1994-06-01

  In this regular forecast, Gary Shoesmith, associate professor at the Babcock Graduate School of Management at Wake Forest University, predicts lower unemployment for the state and its major cities. BNC: Why did North Carolina's three major metropolitan areas post such large gains in retail sales in...

  Tags: Federal Reserve Board, FINANCE, inflation, recovery, SALES, unemployment, Wake Forest University