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Members of Congress, fans and baseball people of all stripes reacted strongly last year after Major League Baseball developed a contraction plan for its Minor League system. Many communities were
Marvin window and door sales plummeted by 25 percent in the spring, but Marvin announced Friday that a rapid housing market rebound is allowing the company to share $15.3 million
Chris Killingstad, who led Tennant Co. to $1.14 billion in sales in 2019, will leave his president and CEO role in March. Killingstad, who served in the top job for
Doug Baker, who turns 62 in December, feels good about what he and his employees have accomplished during his 16-year tenure as CEO of Ecolab. He’ll turn the company’s leadership
Doug Baker, who built Ecolab’s global sales while emphasizing corporate responsibility, will retire as CEO on Jan. 1, but he will retain his role as chairman. The St. Paul-based corporation
Dorsey & Whitney, a prominent Minneapolis-based law firm, is experiencing a rapid recovery from the economic effects of the coronavirus. The law firm, which is more than a century-old, implemented
Even if the Covid-19 pandemic hits the proverbial wall in 2021, don’t expect office workers to simply stream back into their cubicles. Global Workplace Analytics forecasts that 25 to 30
The racial reckoning over George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis police custody is shaping how a 105-year-old Twin Cities institution is doing business. Long a funder of nonprofits that serve low-income
After Covid-19 shocked the U.S. economy in March, some businesses quickly recognized they were dealing with a historic downturn that could be much worse than the Great Recession. Through no
In the wake of George Floyd’s killing on May 25, U.S. Bank on Tuesday announced $5 million in grants to Twin Cities organizations that are addressing economic and racial inequities
While Minnesotans strain to address the pandemic, racial inequities, and a deeply wounded economy, Neel Kashkari has readily become an omnipresent figure in debates on all of these complex issues.
Advocating a strict lockdown during the waning days of summer is controversial, but the Federal Reserve’s Neel Kashkari says it’s the sacrifice that’s needed to tame the Covid-19 virus and
When Ken Melrose spoke to business students at the University of St. Thomas, the retired CEO of Toro loved to make his points through storytelling. Melrose, who served as Toro’s
Two years before Covid-19 became a brutal reality in the United States, global insurance broker Marsh created an insurance product called PathogenRX. It was designed to provide “financial protection to
Resilience in the U.S. housing market has allowed Paul Marvin, CEO of The Marvin Companies, to end factory-worker furloughs this week and restore employee benefits on August 1. Shortly after
Among the collateral damage from Covid-19 is a barrage of financial disputes between businesses, and many of those conflicts are headed for the courts. The fallout from business shutdowns is
St. Paul-based Ecolab was a global manufacturer of cleaning and disinfecting products when Covid-19 started to spread across the planet. Now it’s rolling out a science-based cleaning regimen that features