Archive for October 2018
Hansen of Hertz Real Estate is president-elect of Realtors Land Institute
Hertz Real Estate’s Kyle Hansen is the 2019 president-elect of the Realtors Land Institute, an affiliate of the National Association of Realtors. Hansen will continue to serve his four-year term on the Realtors Land Institute …
Read MoreFederal Home Loan Bank of Des Moines moves into its own building
The Federal Home Loan Bank of Des Moines moved its 300 local employees into a renovated office building Tuesday at 909 Locust St. The move marks nearly a full year of work to upgrade and …
Read MoreAnderson Holdings plans flex building in Urbandale
The Urbandale City Council approved a development agreement Tuesday with Anderson Holdings for a $3.4 million, 46,000-square-foot flex building at 4401 N.W. Urbandale Drive. Under the agreement, Anderson will receive a five-year declining percentage property …
Read MoreR&R leaves the first of many 250,000-square-foot footprints in Omaha
R&R Realty Group has opened the first building in what it plans as a 1 million-square-foot warehouse development in the Omaha area, one of two projects that the West Des Moines company has planned for …
Read MoreGuest Opinion: Checking organizational learning disabilities
Organizations can suffer learning disabilities that prevent them from capitalizing on their experience, as Peter Senge argued in his classic, “The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization.”
Strategic planning develops a …
McLellan: My wallet is my vote
How consumers interact with the companies they do business with and how their expectations evolve are a direct reflection of our culture and core beliefs as human beings. That could not be more evident than …
Read MoreThe Elbert Files: Is Steve King support fading?
An Esquire magazine article — https://bit.ly/2DHo089 — that appeared online Sept. 30 suggests that Republican Congressman Steve King’s immigrant-bashing may be wearing thin among Iowa constituents whose livelihoods depend on undocumented labor.
The subject of …
Newsmaker Q&A: By the script
Liz Gilman’s life running Produce Iowa — think films made in Iowa, not apples — puts her in the middle of all kinds of negotiations with Academy Award winners and those who dream of winning …
Read MoreA Closer Look: Julia Lawler
Julia Lawler was named Principal Financial Group’s chief risk officer on Jan. 1; she succeeded Greg Elming, who retired from that position as of March 31. In mid-September, she was promoted to executive vice president …
Read MoreBusiness Record 10-12-18
Degrees of flexibility
Institutions are adapting their MBA programs to meet the needs of busy, tech-savvy professionals in Greater Des Moines
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