Advice and insights for exporters, small business CEO’s What are best practices and advice to companies exploring product development, marketing, and sales in Japan and other Asia-Pacific countries? Rob Haak, CEO of Insight InterAsia, gives insights based on his career in Asia-Pacific marketing. Recently, he led a series of Hawaii State economic development workshops in […]
Helping Firms Export to Asia-Pacific Markets (Business In Hawaii)
Insights for Japan/APAC-focused Hawaii product exporters. During the last several years there has been widespread interest by Hawaii entrepreneurs to export products to the Asia-Pacific market, especially sales to the $11 trillion Japan economy. Lyle Fujikawa of the Hawaii State Dept. of Business, Economic Development and Tourism will give an overview of HiSTEP (Export Readiness […]
Tourism in Hawaii Today — and the Future (Business In Hawaii)
A New Perspective on Tourism. Now a business and management consultant, Frank Haas has a long career in the Hawaii tourism and hospitality industry, especially in tourism marketing. Haas has a new perspective on tourism — Hawaii’s largest industry. Nearly 9 million tourists came to Hawaii in 2017 — a new record. But there are […]
Developing Young Professionals (Business In Hawaii)
A Path for Hawaii’s Graduates to Success. Booz Allen Hamilton is is an American management and information technology consulting firm, sometimes referred to as a government-services company, headquartered in McLean, Virginia. BAH has an internship program that is a pathway to placing Hawaii university students into BAH roles after graduation. Two interns — both from […]
Free Market Solutions for Hawaii’s Economy
Affordable housing, homelessness, the high cost of living, and unfunded state worker liabilities. These are just a few of the serious problems facing Hawaii’s economy. In this episode of E Hana Kakou, Dr. Keli’i Akina and Ken Schoolland discuss why the prevailing approach to economics cannot solve these problems and how the solution is to […]
Handling Exchange Rates and Currency Fluctuations with Paul Brewbaker
Host David Day speaks with economist Dr. Paul Brewbaker (Bank of Hawaii) about the potential impact of currency and exchange rates on Hawaii’s housing market, real estate sales, foreign investors, and overall economy. The host for this episode was David Day. The host for this episode was David Day. The host for this episode was […]
Offshore Investments in the News
Host Jay Fidell was joined by Mike Sacharski, Pacific Enterprise Group for a special presentation of “Community Matters” today! Offshore investment in Hawaii, with a discussion of related news articles, including news related to TMT, renewable energy goals, City efforts to clear homeless, government action on and against housing construction, inter island ferries. Investors expectations, […]
Offshore Investments in Hawaii
A discussion of the issues to be covered at the Downtown Forum luncheon panel program on April 16th at the Laniakea. The program will feature a panel comprised of Christine Camp, Paul Brewbaker, Carl Fooks, Mike Fergus, Brenda Foster, Gerard Sumida and Jon Wallenstrom. Sign up at ThinkTechHawaii.com to attend the panel! The host for […]
Managing Offshore Investments
Offshore Investments – how can we better manage them? Gerry Sumida of Carlsmith Ball joined Jay Fidell for a review of the comments made by the speakers at the Downtown Forum on the subject on April 16th The host for this episode was Jay Fidell. The host for this episode was Jay Fidell. The host […]
Offshore Investments in Hawaii
Mike Fergus and Peter Savio joined Jay Fidell to discuss the impacts of offshore investments on Hawaii’s economy. The host for this episode was Jay Fidell. The host for this episode was Jay Fidell. The host for this episode was Jay Fidell. The host for this episode was Jay Fidell.