November 2, 2021

This scale-up has its lowest turnover in seven years—and just hired 90 employees. An ESOP is helping it beat labor-market challenges

By Verne Harnish Palmer-Donavin is a distributor of building materials founded in Columbus, Ohio in 1907. Although it is more than 100 years old, the now-560-employee […]
February 3, 2022

Speaker Tracy Britt Cool got her start at her family’s farm stand. The Harvard Business School graduate became a master of building businesses at Berkshire Hathaway, the Pampered Chef and now her investment firm Kanbrick

Tracy Britt Cool has been building businesses for as long as she can remember. Her start came earlier than most, helping with her family’s farm stand […]
February 24, 2022

This martial arts champion has put his business on the fast track using the Scaling Up platform

By Verne Harnish As CEO of Intuitive Self Protection and parent company NLB Tactical in Virginia Beach, Hank Hayes trains both executives and military special forces in self-defense, […]