Ideas

Dorner Mfg. Corp. has been recapitalized by Incline Equity Partners. Cleary Gull Inc. of Milwaukee acted as exclusive financial advisor to Dorner in the transaction.

Jenny Kehl has been named the Lynde B. Uihlein Endowed Chair in Water Policy and the director of the Center for Water Policy in the School of Freshwater Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM).

Production workers from Palermo's Pizza will no longer vote on whether to form a union on July 6.

Racine-based home cleaning product manufacturer SC Johnson will build two wind turbines at its largest production facility, Waxdale in Mount Pleasant.

Editor's note: BizTimes Media LLC recently hosted the Summer Conference of the Alliance of Area Business Publications. Editors and...

June is Dairy month in Wisconsin, a time where we thank our dairy farmers for all of their hard work. You can do this by drinking milk, eating cheese and yogurt, it does a body good.

Marlene Doerr Kreilkamp, founder and executive director of Milwaukee-based SHARP Literacy has announced her retirement.

Editor’s note: Stephen Sandherr, chief executive officer of the Associated General Contractors of America, issued the following statement in...

The state of Wisconsin gained nearly 20,000 jobs in 2011, according to data released today by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Associated Press reported. The jobs numbers are in line with the state’s recent estimates.

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.