Baby. Boom!
A new co-working model disrupts office sharing, child care and work-life balance as we know it.
september 2015
Light Reading
BY JACOB PALMER
Ask any college student: Textbook prices have skyrocketed out of control. Online education startup Lumen Learning aims to bring them down to earth.
Business School
Training, from the mundane to the sublime, bolsters companies and workers in an uncertain world.
Aim High
BY JOE CORTRIGHT
We get the education we deserve.
Money Troubles
The state’s angel investing fund gets hammered in Salem.
Up on the Roof
In 2010 Vanessa Keitges and several investors purchased Portland-based Columbia Green Technologies, a green-roof company. The 13-person firm has a 200% annual growth rate, exports 30% of its product to Canada and received its first infusion of venture capital in 2014 from Yaletown Venture Partners. CEO Keitges, 40, a Southern Oregon native who serves on President Obama’s Export Council, talks about market innovation, scaling small business and why Oregon is falling behind in green-roof construction.
Inside the Box
BY GINA BINOLE
Screening for “culture fit” has become an essential part of the hiring process. But do like-minded employees actually build strong companies — or merely breed consensus culture?
Is there life beyond Reed?
A storied institution climbs down from the ivory tower.
Grain Food
BY JACOB PALMER
A Power Lunch at Bob’s Red Mill Whole Grain Store and Restaurant.