Standing on a stage at N.C. State University, Red Hat Inc.’s president and chief executive describes to students and faculty his first visit in 2007 to the company’s headquarters, which are on the university’s Centennial Campus.

Ken Lewis isn’t just the embattled chief executive of Bank of America Corp., he’s the last of a breed: a BofA director with North Carolina ties.

Toiling away on a state road-construction project, Beth Smyre and her team uncovered some long-buried paperwork that could make a winning lottery ticket look penny ante.

In for $12 million, in for $26.7 million? That’s the question Winston-Salem city leaders will grapple with this month.

For more than two years, Stock Building Supply LLC offices occupied one of three floors in Colony Corporate Center in north Raleigh.

For eight years, the North Carolina Spring Water Association has been trying to keep bottlers from calling their product “spring water” unless nature causes it to bubble up on its own.

More than a decade ago, a writer for a national publication reported that businesses and governments were becoming “disillusioned with incentives.”

Let’s do this Jeopardy!-style: I’ll give you the answer, and you craft your response in the form of a question. Ready? The category is “Things in Common,” and the answer is, “They recently offered a vivid demonstration of the difference between what’s legal and what’s right.”

There’s always room to hope that this year will end up better than last for Tar Heel banks.

The General Assembly hasn’t made it easy for Cecil Goins to do his job — keeping the legislature’s upper house safe.

As the U.S. financial system staggered to the brink of collapse last September, Buddy Greenwood watched events unfold with growing concern.

North Carolina should eliminate most of its tax credits for job creation and investment, according to a study done for the General Assembly.

We once had an editor who believed the magazine put too much emphasis on banking, an accusation to which I, as the guy guiding BNC’s coverage the last 22 years, can only plead guilty.

Gene Loye’s company monitors alarm systems.

When Jim Stevens was searching for a place to start a security business in 1998, he chose one where he felt secure.

Even as a child, Joe Budd took the family business seriously.

Thirty-seven years ago, Larry O’Brien began a career in business development at Charlotte-based Security Forces.

Just when it seemed the board of Charlotte’s United Way chapter had run out of surprising maneuvers, it came up with another: It changed its rationale for firing former President Gloria Pace King — more than six months after the fact.

If you want to lure fishermen to your pier, it helps to sell beer and undercut competitors.

Gone but not forgotten. That’s what Time Warner Cable Inc. and its opponents are saying about the company’s plan to test tiered charges for residential broadband Internet service in Greensboro and three other cities.