Though his longtime partner Phil Roberts is far better known among foodies and the restaurant-going public, Pete Mihajlov is the partner best known in the local restaurant industry. Legendary for…
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Joe Nayquonabe’s job is to think outside the casino. As the head of Mille Lacs Corporate Ventures, he’s looking for investments for the Mille Lacs Band. In addition to Grand…
At 76, Marilyn Carlson Nelson, one of Minnesota’s most influential business owners, is co-teaching a course on corporate responsibility at the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management. Recipient of…
Commercial real estate broker Russ Nelson is a downtown Minneapolis fixture. Who represented the Star Tribune in its land sale and big move to Capella Tower? Nelson. Who represented Xcel…
Minnesota certainly is not a black-owned business hotbed: It has only one of the nation’s top 100 such businesses as ranked by revenue. So it’s probably understandable that CEO Ravi…
Mayo Clinic CEO John Noseworthy says the giant health care provider has made it through the troubled waters of health care reform in good shape and is now “ready to…
Damola Ogundipe—the 26-year-old co-founder and CEO of St. Paul-based start-up Civic Eagle—first attracted attention as a Minnesota Golden Gopher football player who also scored a degree from the Carlson School.…
Mike Ohmes started in the trenches for Bloomington-based Cushman & Wakefield/NorthMarq as an office broker in 1991, as the industry was emerging from a recession. Throughout the ’90s he was…
Code42 was having a bit of a rough year before Joe Payne stepped in. Despite continued growth, observers thought the darling of the Minneapolis tech scene seemed panicked after it…
The IRRRB distributes much of the iron ore production tax revenue paid by northern Minnesota mines, with an eye toward diversifying the Iron Range economy. It’s a state agency, but…
After sitting across the table from Northern States Power Co. in the 1990s as a Minnesota utility regulator, Judy Poferl crossed the aisle in 1998 for roles in regulatory and…
2024: Joe Pohlad is the first Pohlad to occupy an office at Target Field. He is still more of a listener and asker of questions than a decider, but he…
While no one was paying attention, Minneapolis-based Ability Network has become big business: a large health IT company that processes Medicare payments for health care providers. The privately held firm,…
Born in South Korea, Susan Rani was not about to submit to a culture that valued men over women, and today she is founder and president of Minnesota’s largest woman-…
2025: A shift to “value-based care”—a model where providers are paid not simply for services provided, but for actual patient outcomes—has long been bandied about in the health care industry.…
Resnik’s two-year tenure at the iconic south Minneapolis co-op does not qualify him as a newbie, but the former General Mills exec has used his short time at the member-owned…
When Michael Rousseau takes over as CEO of St. Jude Medical in January, the hope is he’ll provide a smooth transition from longtime CEO Daniel Starks. That seems likely given…
After Padilla Speer Beardsley acquired Richmond, Va., public relations firm CRT/tanaka late in 2013, there were bound to be changes, and one came last year when executive creative director Dave…