Robert Stephens, who founded The Geek Squad nearly two decades ago, has left Best Buy and is "ready to build new companies," although he has agreed to serve as an outside advisor to Best Buy CEO Brian Dunn.
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The in-store marketing company said that its restructuring moves-which also include a pay cut for CEO Scott Drill and some other employees-will save $3.1 million annually.
The estate planning life insurance firm has hired Jon Christie to lead its first Minneapolis office, which is located in the IDS Center.
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The estate planning life insurance firm has hired Jon Christie to lead its first Minneapolis office, which is located in the IDS Center.
The former University of Minnesota president has stepped in to lead The Bush Foundation as it searches for a permanent replacement for Peter Hutchinson, who resigned in January.
Longtime State Demographer Tom Gillaspy will be succeeded by Susan Brower, who served as research associate for the Wilder Foundation before joining the state demographer's staff last summer.
A former vice president and branch manager of a Minnesota bank admitted to stealing $80,000 and faces up to 10 years in prison.
Birch Run Capital, which recently acquired 8.3 percent of Regis' stock, is "an active investor, not an activist investor," Regis Senior Vice President of Finance Mark Fosland told the Star Tribune.
Xcel Energy reportedly plans to spend $20 million to $50 million on safety upgrades to its two nuclear plants, a year after Japan's tsunami disaster that led to a nuclear catastrophe.
The Rochester-based clinic has been granted $2.5 million to find out if a compound derived from snake venom can be useful to heart attack patients.
The second phase of the tech accelerator program includes four start-ups, two of which are based in Minnesota.
Malver, Pennsylvania-based Vishay Intertechnology bought the company for $85 million from Denver-based private equity firm CHB Capital Partners.
A recent study commissioned by Microsoft projects that adoption of IT cloud services will generate nearly 14 million jobs worldwide by 2015, 13,000 of which will be in Minneapolis.
About four months after purchasing Educational Options, Inc., Plato Learning has announced plans to acquire another education technology company: Archipelago Learning.
A space in Uptown Minneapolis' Calhoun Square was recently vacated by the Italian restaurant Il Gatto, but new tenant Primebar is set to take over later this spring or in early summer.
A study by the Women's Foundation of Minnesota reportedly found that women earn an average of 80 cents for each dollar earned by men, and the disparity is greater for management positions.
3M, Target, St. Jude, and General Mills are among Fortune's 50 most-admired companies.
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