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May 2, 2016 Edition

Plants aren't the only thing growing at Johnny's Selected Seeds

Lori Valigra

Johnny's Selected Seeds has come a long way since company founder and Chairman Rob Johnston Jr. started the company in 1973 at age 22 with $500 in savings in a New Hampshire farm attic during the back to the land movement.

  • MaineHealth's Green Team turns system's food waste into compost

    James McCarthy

    As program manager at MaineHealth, Richard Veilleux focuses on health care quality improvement. But he also volunteers with MaineHealth's Green Team, a grassroots employee effort to recycle and compost waste produced in the Portland-based health care system.

  • Other
    Other

    Inside the Notebook: Seeding clams in Downeast Maine

    James McCarthy

    The clam-seeding project is a collective effort by the 250 local diggers who sell clams to Gulf of Maine Inc., which diverted $1 for every bushel of clams it purchased into a fund for buying baby seed clams from the Downeast Institute in Beals.

  • In Short
    In Short

    IN SHORT

    New hiresCamden National Corp. hired Mary Beth Haut as president and CEO of Acadia Trust NA, the bank’s wealth management subsidiary in Portland.

Today's Poll

Has the growth of remote work in recent years hurt the ability of your business to innovate?
Poll Description

Since the start of the pandemic, employees have come to expect hybrid schedules that allow them to work remotely.

Many employers, however, have pushed for a return to traditional, pre-COVID offices and workspaces.

Tension about where workers do their work heated up on Friday when the CEO of Nike, John Donahoe, blamed remote work for the company's recent lack of product innovation.

"It’s really hard to do bold, disruptive innovation, to develop a boldly disruptive shoe, on Zoom,” he said in an interview with CNBC.

The sportswear and sneaker giant has come under fire in the past couple of years for falling behind on innovation and losing market share.

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