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What are the main causes of stressed and distressed businesses? There are hundreds. But after working as a serial entrepreneur for more than two decades, I see these most frequently:

There's a scene in "The Princess Bride," shortly after the hero Westley is apparently tortured to death by Prince...

Mandel Group Inc. recently held a groundbreaking ceremony to celebrate the start of construction of the second phase of its North End project, located along the Milwaukee River at the intersection of Water and Pleasant streets in downtown Milwaukee.

With assets of $2.5 billion, Bank Mutual Corp. is now the largest bank still based in Milwaukee County, and the company hopes to leverage that fact to its advantage.

Change in leadership is inevitable and often predictable, yet it can be one of the most disruptive and jarring...

The U.S. economy is expected to continue strengthening, possibly picking up this spring and summer, according the Conference Board, which said today that its Leading Economic Index (LEI) grew 0.4 percent to 94.9 in January, led by the interest-rate spread and manufacturing hours.

When the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) issued its annual recap press release on Jan. 24, 2012, there...

To say things are politically turbulent here in the State of Wisconsin might be an understatement.With the recall of...

Most Americans don't think twice when we turn on the tap and drink a glass of fresh, clean water....