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BizTimes Media invites readers to kick off the Wisconsin golf season by attending the “2015 PGA Championship: A Major Partnership,” a special celebration which will take place Tuesday, April 28, in the Pilot House at Pier Wisconsin in Milwaukee.

BizTimes Media has announced the recipients of the 2015 Bravo! Entrepreneur Awards and I.Q. (Innovation Quotient) Awards.

The Wisconsin Safety Council and the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development announced that 14 companies will receive Wisconsin Corporate Safety Awards.

The Bradley Center Sports & Entertainment Corp. board of directors on Wednesday announced that board member Ted Kellner has been unanimously selected to serve as the new chairman after the sudden death of Marc Marotta earlier this month.

Observing the Wisconsin state wrestling tournament this year, I noticed a consistency to the competitors who were winning: They weren't flashy. They stuck to the fundamentals, and did them well.

Milwaukee private investment firm Brass Ring Capital recently completed two recapitalizations.

Port Washington State Bank has renewed its six community business loan programs for 2015, and removed a previous limit of $250,000 per municipality.

Milwaukee-based Park Bank has launched a mobile app, Park Bank Mobile Business, to allow business owners to manage their cash flow wherever they are.

Data science is a fancy term for statistics. It's the extraction of knowledge from data, which can be derived from multiple digital sources and turned into a resource to make business decisions.

One year ago this week, I took my oath to lead the U.S. Small Business Administration, the federal agency chartered by Congress in 1953 to support America's entrepreneurs.