Every business starts with a business plan. The end of June brings us halfway through the year and time to monitor how the company is performing with meeting its business goals. Let’s take a look. In January, our team set a goal to produce a monthly magazine that provides an unparalleled voice to celebrate leaders in business and politics across Arkansas. We designed this to provide a publication that champions entrepreneurial capitalism and advances the state’s multifaceted industries.
We began the year by featuring Dr. Ali Krisht, director of Arkansas Neuroscience Institute at CHI St. Vincent, winner of the 2019 “Nobel Prize” in Neurosurgery. February landed billionaire Warren Stephens, chairman, president and chief executive officer of Stephens Inc., and one of this year’s Sam M. Walton College of Business Hall of Fame inductees. Boss Hog, Hunter Yuracheck, UA vice chancellor and director of athletics, graced our March cover during the controversial firing of UA basketball coach Mike Anderson. Walter Hussman, publisher of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette and chief executive of WEHCO Media, announced in April his decision to cease printing the daily DemGaz except for the Sunday paper and turn daily news subscribers online. Thomas “Mack” McLarty, III, founder of McLarty Automotive Group and McLarty Associates along with being President Bill Clinton’s first White House Chief of Staff landed our May issue discussing the importance of volunteer work with Junior Achievement of Arkansas. This month, Sam Alley, chief executive officer of VCC, shares his incredible journey to becoming one of the leading general contractors in the nation.