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Tommy Haggard and the price of belonging
A decade in Versailles. A new chapter in Paris. For Tommy Haggard, a career in leadership keeps returning to the same question: how does an institution become part of its town?
The Business of Making Strangers Useful to One Another
For 128 years, the Virginia Peninsula Chamber has sold a simple regional advantage: put the shipyard executive, the banker, the professor and the small-business owner in the same room - then give them a reason to talk.
The $135 Switchboard That Keeps a County Talking
For the price of a modest newspaper ad, a Blakely business can buy into something harder to print: a referral network, a public voice, a welcome desk, and a place in the county's working conversation.
The Chamber That Put Networking Under One Roof
After a post-pandemic listening tour, Beavercreek's business association made an unusually literal bet: if local companies need connection, media tools, advice, and room to grow, put them in the same building.
The $305 Handshake: How Grand Prairie Turns Repetition Into Business
The Grand Prairie Chamber sells something no directory can manufacture on command: familiarity. Its real product is a calendar that lets local businesses keep showing up until strangers become customers, partners and advocates.
The Chamber That Turned Handshakes Into Infrastructure
For a century, St. George's business club has sold one deceptively simple product: useful proximity. When the handshakes disappeared, the network showed what it was really made of.
The Chamber That Sells a County - Then Teaches It How to Grow
In Lawrenceburg, the same organization courts factories, trains civic leaders, markets Amish Country and still finds time to organize the Christmas parade. The interesting part is not the variety - it is how the pieces reinforce one another.
Elevate Rapid City Wants to Give Ambition a Local Address
A chamber, an accelerator and an economic development organization share one roof in the Black Hills. The bigger experiment is making room for businesses - and for the people they need to hire.
Costa Rica’s chamber of commerce learned to widen the circle
A business association born in 1915 now connects merchants, trains entrepreneurs and helps settle disputes. Its most revealing story is the fight over who gets a seat at the table.
CCI Bénin puts the chamber of commerce in your pocket
Founded in 1908, Benin’s chamber of commerce now backs software for the everyday work of running a business. Its digital turn reveals how an old institution is tackling a stubborn problem: turning advice into action.