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In On the Games

In On the Games

Three local businesswomen will be at this year's Winter Olympics. They're competitors in both sport and work.
Fallon’s Long Road Back

Fallon’s Long Road Back

After a half decade when it seemed to lose its way, the iconic ad agency has reorganized and landed one of its biggest accounts ever. In its work for Chrysler, look for signs that a once TV-centric Fallon is taking alternate routes.
Green and the Bottom Line

Green and the Bottom Line

Everybody is an environmentalist these days, or so it seems. According to the brochures, the product labels, and the corporate spokespeople, every company in America is a devoted friend of
The Next Wellhead

The Next Wellhead

U.S. Energy Services became one of Minnesota's fastest-growing companies thanks largely to natural gas deregulation. Climate change legislation could fuel its next boom.
The Woman Behind Ecumen

The Woman Behind Ecumen

Having shepherded the Minnesota Zoo and helped to save the Twins, Kathryn Roberts now leads the former Lutheran Board of Social Ministry into a new age of senior-living management.
Stoke Up

Stoke Up

There are few clear advantages to living in a place where winter begins on October 10th. But here’s one: Like pub owners on the damp English moors and Celtic bluffs,

Breaking Out with Breakthrough Drugs?

Upsher-Smith’s move into developing innovative drugs gained momentum in July 2008 with its equity investment of $6 million in Proximagen Neuroscience, a London-based firm that already had a new Parkinson’s
Mellow Out

Mellow Out

You might want garlic at its full potency for staving off vampires—or cholesterol, though garlic’s ability to do that could prove equally mythical. The Mayo Clinic says research so far
Mix Master

Mix Master

After a career of formulating time- and money-saving pharmaceuticals at his Minnesota business, Upsher-Smith Laboratories, Ken Evenstad started blending one of the most prestigious pinot noirs in the country.
The Conceptual Cocktail

The Conceptual Cocktail

Johnny Michaels, the lyrical and heady bartender at La Belle Vie, treats the cocktail as an intellectual challenge—but one that requires equal parts creativity and good humor. (Beware: He cringes
Thomson Reuters’ Brain

Thomson Reuters’ Brain

The Eagan business that was once West Publishing now supplies its parent company with the intellectual firepower to outmaneuver Bloomberg and LexisNexis.