Greg Bombard, president of Catalina Channel Express, is this year’s recipient of the Long Beach Area Chamber of Commerce’s City National Bank Entrepreneur of the Year Award.Read More >>

“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower,” Apple co-founder Steve Jobs has said. And Long Beach is just that—innovative. Here we look at a few of Long Beach’s many innovative minds who have made their mark in technology, business, online publishing, transportation, urban design, and facilities planning.Read More >>

Andreas Mitisek inherited a world-renowned opera company. The problem he faced was how to get the Long Beach Opera better known in its hometown.Read More >>

Optimizing Workplace Décor and Financial Success the Eastern Way
Many of us do not pay much attention to our workplace surroundings. But according to the ancient Chinese philosophy of feng shui, where and how we place items can either create harmony and balance or destroy our qi (also spelled ch’i), or life force.Read More >>

F. King Alexander
California State University, Long Beach President
A typical day is far from typical for Dr. F. King Alexander, the sixth President of California State University, Long Beach. Now in his third year at the second largest campus of the California State University system and the third-largest university in the state of California in terms of enrollment, the affable Alexander’s typical schedule is filled with meetings, decisions, and keeping a presence on campus. Every day is different.Read More >>