Julia Taylor
Viewpoints: Economic impact of Bucks’ championship run shows potential benefit of local option sales tax
Our local governments in Milwaukee need the opportunity to ask the voters if they’re willing to incur a 1% sales tax increase to leverage our local dollars for local priorities, including property tax relief.
Growth happens when we come together
Here in Milwaukee, we are growth-obsessed. From our vast number of corporate headquarters to our active entrepreneurship community, we are filled with talented people and companies – like the dozen ambitious businesses in our pilot Scalerator, an accelerated training program – who are hungry and primed for growth.
Innovation matchmaking can drive Milwaukee forward
Recently, Dan Isenberg from Babson College visited Milwaukee and spoke to the Greater Milwaukee Committee's membership group and to an audience of entrepreneurs at OPEN MiKE. He said that the only ideas worth pursuing are the ones which one person, if not many, thinks are worthless. His point was that the best ideas aren't easily grasped; they require visionary thinking and, ultimately, a leap of faith.
GMC board members cautiously optimistic
Editor’s note: BizTimes asked Julia Taylor, president of the Greater Milwaukee Committee, to ask some of her board members to share their thoughts about the year ahead in business.
‘2011 has the potential to be outstanding’
Compared with the stark predictions for 2009 and 2010, 2011 is expected to be a year of moderate growth and improvement as we enter the third year of what by many is predicted to be a 10-year cycle of "the new normal" in economic growth.
‘The worst seems to be past’
Editor's note: As part of the coverage in the Economic Trends special report, BizTimes Milwaukee asked Julia Taylor,...
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