He started an IT services business in 2002. Now the Blue Alliance CEO works with founders on a harder question: how to grow beyond the company they built without losing the people who made it work.
Heather Adams built Choice around a simple diagnosis: attention is not the hard part. The hard part is connecting a clear message, the right relationship and enough execution to make attention useful.

When a five-alarm fire tore through Barchemy's main plant, Larry Toscano kept every employee paid. The decision explains more about his Donora chocolate business than any ingredient list could.