Hunter Field

Little Rock

Editor at Arkansas Business

Editor of @ArkBusiness

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Waving the Flag (Hunter Field Editor's Note)

5 days ago | arkansasbusiness.com | Hunter Field

THIS IS AN OPINIONWe'd also like to hear yours. Tweet us @ArkBusiness or email us I awoke a week ago to the annual flood of emails promoting some of the year’s lowest prices “in celebration” of Memorial Day. Politicians, corporations, influencers and the like took to social media to signal to the rest of us how patriotic they are. A few still manage each year to commit the faux pas of wishing everyone a “happy” Memorial Day, our president among them this year.
Did AI Write That? (Hunter Field Editor's Note)

1 week ago | arkansasbusiness.com | Hunter Field

THIS IS AN OPINIONWe'd also like to hear yours. Tweet us @ArkBusiness or email us I noticed a change about a year and half ago in many of the press releases I’m sent on a daily basis. My first thought was one of pleasant surprise. They were improving. The writing was more clear and the information better organized. Then, the patterns began to emerge, and many of the releases grew more and more alike.
Embrace the Gridlock (Hunter Field Editor's Note)

3 weeks ago | arkansasbusiness.com | Hunter Field

THIS IS AN OPINIONWe'd also like to hear yours. Tweet us @ArkBusiness or email us Tariffs. We’ve editorialized about them, as has just about every news publication in the U.S. We’ve had guests write op-eds about them, including today. We’ve reported on their impact so far. I’m growing more and more tired of reading and talking about them, but this really isn’t a column about tariffs. This is a column about the slow wheels of government.
Plan Now or Pay Later (Hunter Field Editor's Note)

1 month ago | arkansasbusiness.com | Hunter Field

THIS IS AN OPINIONWe'd also like to hear yours. Tweet us @ArkBusiness or email us Two-thirds of family businesses in the United States have no succession plan, PricewaterhouseCoopers found in 2023. More alarming: The Exit Planning Institute found later that same year that 76% of business owners plan to transition in the next 10 years, but only 17% have a transition plan. The data tracks with my experience.
A Business Lesson From Augusta (Hunter Field Editor's Note)

1 month ago | arkansasbusiness.com | Hunter Field

THIS IS AN OPINIONWe'd also like to hear yours. Tweet us @ArkBusiness or email us It has been a few weeks since we watched Rory McIlroy finally win the Masters, becoming only the sixth golfer to win all four of professional golf’s majors. Not since Tiger Woods do I remember such collective emotional investment in one player’s tournament success.
Remember Our Humanity (Hunter Field Editor's Note)

1 month ago | arkansasbusiness.com | Hunter Field

THIS IS AN OPINIONWe'd also like to hear yours. Tweet us @ArkBusiness or email us Here in Arkansas and across much of the country, we have pushed to more closely align public secondary and higher education with the demands of industry. This is 100% the right move, but I’m constantly on guard against approaches that pursue this end to the detriment of the humanities. It’s rarely explicit, but I do often find it implicit in language around the return on investment on certain courses of study.
Worthy of Recognition (Hunter Field Editor's Note)

2 months ago | arkansasbusiness.com | Hunter Field

THIS IS AN OPINIONWe'd also like to hear yours. Tweet us @ArkBusiness or email us Arkansas Business just named this year’s 40 Under 40 class. That came on the heels of our Arkansas Business of the Year Awards ceremony, and it will be followed shortly by the 20 in Their 20s honorees and the Executive of the Year Awards. What I’m trying to say is we put on a lot of recognition programs here.
In the Green (Hunter Field Editor's Note)

2 months ago | arkansasbusiness.com | Hunter Field

THIS IS AN OPINIONWe'd also like to hear yours. Tweet us @ArkBusiness or email us The most fun I’ve ever had as a journalist was covering the infancy of Arkansas’ medical marijuana industry. I was a reporter at the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette when Arkansans voted to legalize cannabis for medicinal use in 2016, and shortly after, I was assigned to cover the state’s and industry’s efforts to open the first growing facilities and dispensaries.
Seeing LR’s Future in Chattanooga (Hunter Field Editor's Note)

2 months ago | arkansasbusiness.com | Hunter Field

THIS IS AN OPINIONWe'd also like to hear yours. Tweet us @ArkBusiness or email us We’re nearly a year removed from the release of the Downtown Little Rock Master Plan, but the landscape is much different now. When the report was released last year, fanfare, hope and excitement accompanied it as local business and political leaders looked to a proposed 1% sales tax on the ballot in Little Rock last November.
It Took a Lyon (Hunter Field Editor's Note)

2 months ago | arkansasbusiness.com | Hunter Field

THIS IS AN OPINIONWe'd also like to hear yours. Tweet us @ArkBusiness or email us I’ll believe it when I see it. That’s what I said when Lyon College first announced plans three years ago to open Arkansas’ first dental and veterinary schools. I’m sure I said it several times in the years since, but as you can see on today’s front page, it’s time to believe.