Archive for April 2005

Thirty-one years ago, Burke Corp. was truly a small business, with one customer, one employee and one cooking kettle. After 20 expansions in the past 19 years, the family-owned meat topping and filling manufacturer boasts …

Jean-Christophe Boze grew up along the Mediterranean Sea in Montpelier, France, and dreamed of becoming a soccer player or a geologist. Living in the midst of wine country, he visited his grandfather’s vineyard every year …

In some cases, it doesn’t take a hacker to breach a bank’s computer security system to access customers’ sensitive information. Just as much damage can be done by a knowledgeable caller simply asking the right …

Any spam among your e-mail today? Maybe a lot of it? Maybe so many useless and annoying pitches that you’re thinking it would be better to go back to the days of snail mail?

E-mail …

As a reference librarian, Jennifer Thompson became accustomed to requests for strange and unusual information, such as how to make paper out of straw. But a request by a library patron for a handmade soap …

The head of Project InVision International says he’s rooting for Des Moines to emerge as his company’s choice for an expansion location. Des Moines and Jacksonville, Fla., are being considered by the Silicon Valley-based software …

Michele Beschen loved school and always wanted to be a doctor. But something about the workload as a pre-medical school student in college along with 40 hours a week in a laboratory led her away …

Dear Mr. Berko:

I bought 200 shares of Accredo Health at $14 a share in 2003 when I began using the company’s services to save money for my Crohn’s disease medications. As you know, it …

Fall is traditionally known as football season, but the Des Moines Courage, which kicked off its season earlier this month, is not a typical football team. For starters, its players are all women, and they …

Most people who write about leadership are no longer leaders.

It’s easy for them to espouse their Monday-morning philosophy but hard for the leaders under fire to take the former leaders’ direction. I just read …