Entrepreneurship & Small Business

Congress has given many business owners an incredible tax bonus by increasing the lifetime gift tax exemption amount to more than $5 million, but only until the end of this year. Barring additional legislative action, that exemption will expire and be reduced to only $1 million. This gift tax exemption level provides many business owners an unprecedented opportunity to pass on the family business free of exposure to wealth transfer taxes.

When strategic plans, effectively executed, fail to drive growth a number of root causes are usually at work. Leaders...

Southeastern Wisconsin employers interested in starting or growing an employee wellness program to reduce their health care costs are encouraged to attend the Humana Wellness Summit to be presented by BizTimes Media and the Wellness Council of Wisconsin on Thursday.

Some of us are wishing Happy Two Year Birthday this week to the Affordable Care Act. Some of us...

Succession planning is an important part of long-term planning for family businesses that hope to pass the company from generation to generation.

According to the Society for Human Resources Management, only 23 percent of U.S. businesses have a formal succession plan in place.

A Walworth-based maker of thermoplastic components will expand its operation to Janesville and add at least 90 jobs in...

The Common Ground Health Care Cooperative has been approved to receive a $56.4 million federal loan to help southeastern Wisconsin small businesses provide health care insurance for their employees.

Legislation giving school boards new tools for the development of vocational skills curricula was approved by the Wisconsin Assembly on a bi-partisan vote Wednesday and is on its way to Gov. Scott Walker’s desk.

The Milwaukee 7 economic development collaboration will take a step forward in developing the region's food and beverage industry cluster by officially launching a business network and dedicated website (fabmilwaukee.com) at the M7 Executive Food Forum on Thursday, March 15.

Milwaukee-based workplace quality organization ASQ has partnered with Washington, DC-based manufacturing improvement organization The Manufacturing Institute to address the national manufacturing skills gap.