In a side room at Old Parkland, entrepreneur Mark Cuban, left, and Houston philanthropist John Arnold compared notes for the Texas Business Hall of Fame's Creators 2025 speaker series. [Photo: Grant Miller Photography]
Cuban and Arnold told an audience of businesspeople at Old Parkland Wednesday that high healthcare costs have multiple causes—and that efforts to significantly reform the system are likely to take a while.
Innovation, competence, and confidence paid dividends for the Michigan native, who helped start and build M1 Support Services en route to becoming one of America’s richest self-made women.
UTA alumnus Kelcy Warren, executive chairman and chairman of the board of directors of Dallas-based Energy Transfer LP, has made a $12 million gift to help elevate UT Arlington to the forefront of the growing resource and energy engineering (REE) field. "Texas faces a critical need for highly skilled graduates who can manage energy resources," Warren says, "and this innovative REE program will help meet that demand.”
A leader in the local private equity and sports business space, Thomas O. Hicks will be inducted at a ceremony put on by the Texas Business Hall of Fame Foundation in early November, joining others from Houston and Austin. The former owner of the Dallas Stars and Texas Rangers, Hicks currently serves as the founder, chairman, and partner of local family office Hicks Holdings and as a senior partner and director at Dallas' The Beneficient Company Group.
Hicks will join other local business legends like Mark Cuban and Ross Perot, Jr. in the Texas Business Hall of Fame, which has been inducting new members since 1983.
North Texas boasts a new crop of Tech Titans, including a team at Dallas Fort Worth International Airport, a University of Texas at Dallas inventor and a Lewisville ISD teacher.
Oregon-based Pinnacle has acquired Dallas-based experiential design agency 900lbs of Creative LLC, the two companies announced this week. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
The acquisition launches a new interactive studio within Pinnacle, which will be led by 900lbs founder and CEO Steve Deitz as vice president, interactive....
Eight North Texas entrepreneurs will tackle education, income and health issues as members of the United Way of Metropolitan Dallas’ 2027 Social Innovation Accelerator.
“Some of the most powerful solutions to our community’s toughest challenges are developed by people who understand those challenges firsthand,” Frank Santoni, the United Way’s vice president of social innovation and design, told Dallas Innovates....
North Texas boasts a new crop of Tech Titans, including a team at Dallas Fort Worth International Airport, a University of Texas at Dallas inventor and a Lewisville ISD teacher.
Oregon-based Pinnacle has acquired Dallas-based experiential design agency 900lbs of Creative LLC, the two companies announced this week. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
The acquisition launches a new interactive studio within Pinnacle, which will be led by 900lbs founder and CEO Steve Deitz as vice president, interactive....
Eight North Texas entrepreneurs will tackle education, income and health issues as members of the United Way of Metropolitan Dallas’ 2027 Social Innovation Accelerator.
“Some of the most powerful solutions to our community’s toughest challenges are developed by people who understand those challenges firsthand,” Frank Santoni, the United Way’s vice president of social innovation and design, told Dallas Innovates....