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Training & Development Directory
This directory features organizations that provide training, higher education, coaching, consulting or development capabilities to businesses in southeastern...
The psychology of business growth
In the days after the death of Steve Jobs, Apple Inc. co-founder and one of the world's most iconic and influential innovators and business leaders, many reflected in awe of his accomplishments.
High growth
The Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce (MMAC) and its Council of Small Business Executives (COSBE) recently named the "Fastest Five" growing companies of its 2011 Future 50 award winners. They are:
Be bold
Many American corporations are compiling record profits and generating record returns for their investors.
Where will NML build?
Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co. Inc. announced recently that it plans to tear down a 16-story office building on its downtown Milwaukee campus. The company plans to replace the building, but has not made specific plans.
More efficient motion
The earliest accounts of the manual wheelchair exist in documents from the sixth century. Surprisingly, the model used back then doesn't look too much different than the one that wheelchair-bound individuals use today. For Jim Maerzke, president of Kenosha-based Procubed LLC, that is a concern and one he hopes to correct with the company's Linear to Rotary Motion (LRM) conversion mechanism.
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The changing face of crisis management in China
Recently Johnson Controls Inc. found itself in the midst of a public relations nightmare. A routine pre-kindergarten health check had found elevated levels of lead in the blood of 21 children who were living in a community 700 meters away from its Shanghai battery factory.
MMAC members still projecting some growth
Business growth is projected for Milwaukee area businesses in 2011's fourth quarter, with a majority of those businesses surveyed seeing gains in sales, profit and employment over year-ago levels, according to a business outlook survey conducted by the Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce (MMAC).
Bay View Coffee
Alterra Coffee Roasters recently began construction of a 15,000-square-foot café and bakery building at the intersection of Kinnickinnic, Howell and Lincoln avenues in Milwaukee's Bay View neighborhood.
How much will you need in retirement?
The primary shortcoming to retirement planning is that the investor must make predictions – inflation and the cost of living, health care costs, tax rates, investment portfolio returns, life expectancy, etc. Successful retirement planning is predicated on accurately estimating three components:
