Boston University is one of the leading private research and teaching institutions in the world today, with two primary campuses in the heart of Boston and programs around the world. As a major research university, Boston University is both a repository for accumulated knowledge and experience and a testing ground for critically examining received wisdom, where groundbreaking research is conducted in a wide variety of fields and across disciplines. Taught by inspired, committed, and creative faculty, our programs combine the enduring value of a liberal arts education with the skills and experience offered by professional schools, to ensure that the students are engaged, adaptable, and equipped for successful careers and fulfilling lives.

Howard Fischer Associates International (HFA) knows that good leaders can be hard to find. The retained executive search firm recruits nationwide from offices in Boston, Philadelphia, and the Silicon Valley. The company performs searches for CEOs, board members, division presidents, and functional heads. HFA's clients include cable companies (Comcast and TiVo), and telecom service and equipment providers (Polaris Networks). It recruits internationally through its membership in International Technology Partners. CEO Howard Fischer founded the company in 1977.

Since EMP opened in 2000 and SFM in 2004, EMP|SFM has welcomed more than 4.5 million visitors through its doors. From its museum planning stages in 1998 through 2009, EMP|SFM has been a key economic driver among Seattle nonprofit arts and culture organizations, with combined EMP|SFM institutional expenditures and EMP|SFM audience-member spending resulting in $651 million dollars of local economic impact. EMP|SFM is housed in a 140,000 square foot Frank O. Gehry-designed building. This spectacular, prominently visible structure has the presence of a monumental sculpture set amid the backdrop of the Seattle Center.

GL events tries to put the "special" back into "special events." The company provides events-related services to clients in France and beyond. Through more than a dozen subsidiaries, GL events offers global services for temporary, semi-permanent, and permanent trade shows, exhibitions, and events. It is also active in the management of venues (exhibition halls, convention centers, concert halls) and events (business, cultural, political). Services include planning, staffing, and supplying events with such necessities as lighting, furnishings, audiovisual equipment, catering, and decorations. Polygone controls the company.

Imagelinx (formerly LTG Technologies) knows that appearances count. Through its Imagelinx unit, the company provides packaging graphics services to makers of branded consumer products. Imagelinx works with designers, artists, and printers to produce film, metal, and paper packaging. Its Tecnolink unit provides brand management services. In 2006 the former LTG Technologies sold its LTG Mailender business, a manufacturer of presses for metal sheet printing, to rival Koenig & Bauer. LTG Technologies changed its name to Imagelinx in 2007.

Ident-A-Kid is a name that has become synonymous with child safety. Nationally recognized, the Ident-A-Kid brand is respected for leading the child safety industry with innovative products, the latest technology, and community focused training and services. Our products are used in over 250 locations across the country and have been praised by business and academic leaders for over 20 years. Over those years, the Ident-A-Kid program has produced millions more ID cards than all other programs combined! But more importantly, as the needs of parents have changed and technology continues to evolve, Ident-A-Kid has remained committed to providing the very latest in products, services and systems to keep kids safe. It’s these principles that guide our management team at our headquarters in St. Petersburg, Florida, and our national network of Ident-A-Kid franchisees.

Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP was founded more than 120 years ago upon principles that still characterize our practice today. Our founders and memorable colleagues, like Wendell Willkie and Felix Frankfurter, established a strong foundation of integrity, innovation, pragmatism, flexibility and intellectual agility designed to continually meet the ever-changing business needs of our clients. These values form our approach to providing legal and business advisory services today. We continue our tradition of excellence by keeping nimble, working collaboratively together, with respect and professionalism, and by integrating this philosophy into our client relationships. Our clients not only rely on us for our creativity, skill, leadership, decisiveness and high-quality work, but because they know we are solution-oriented and we get the job done efficiently and effectively. Our firm culture fosters intellectual curiosity in a collaborative work environment. Recognizing that the collegiality and straightforward approach to the practice of law provides the ongoing enrichment of a great career not found at other firms, many of Willkie’s attorneys remain with the Firm throughout their careers. People enjoy working at Willkie. We regularly celebrate 25- plus year anniversaries for both staff and attorneys—and our clients recognize and appreciate the continuity that our high retention offers them. We attribute this commitment to the Firm to great relationships, an excellent workplace atmosphere, and continuing prospects to gain insight and experience through ongoing mentoring and professional development. We provide these opportunities for both attorneys and staff, who are valued as vital participants in the client relationship process.

Transportation Insight can shed some light on why your company's transportation costs are so high. And, hopefully, find a way to reduce them. The logistics firm provides rate and contract negotiation for parcel, less-than-truckload, and truckload shipments; routing assistance; invoice processing; supply chain design; and logistics analysis to customers in manufacturing, retail, service, and distribution. It also offers proprietary transportation management software under the names Insight Payer, Insight Rater, Insight BOL (bill of lading), and Insight Tracker. Transportation Insight works from about 30 offices across the US, with a heavy concentration in North Carolina.

Founded in fidelity to Christ and His Church in response to the call of Vatican II for greater lay witness in contemporary society, Ave Maria University exists to further teaching, research, and learning at the undergraduate and graduate levels in the abiding tradition of Catholic thought in both national and international settings. The University takes as its mission the sponsorship of a liberal arts education curriculum dedicated, as articulated in the apostolic constitution Ex Corde Ecclesiae, to the advancement of human culture, the promotion of dialogue between faith and reason, the formation of men and women in the intellectual and moral virtues of the Catholic faith, and to the development of professional and pre-professional programs in response to local and societal needs. As an institution committed to Catholic principles, the University recognizes the importance of creating and maintaining an environment in which faith informs the life of the community and takes expression in all its programs.

Since being founded in 1972 by Jules B. Kroll, Kroll has expanded beyond investigative and security services to include consulting and other risk mitigation services.Kroll’s expansion started in the 1980s, when the company began helping corporate clients size up the financial standing of suitors and takeover targets. Kroll quickly became known as Wall Street’s “private eye.” Kroll is the world’s leading risk consulting company. For more than 30 years, Kroll has helped companies, government agencies and individuals reduce their exposure to risk and capitalize on business opportunities. Kroll is an operating unit of Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc., the global professional services firm.With offices in 55 cities in the U.S. and abroad, Kroll can scrutinize accounting practices and financial documents; gather and filter electronic evidence for attorneys; recover lost or damaged data from computers and servers; conduct in-depth investigations; screen domestic and foreign-born job candidates; protect individuals, and enhance security systems and procedures.

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