Archive for October 2019
NOTEBOOK – One Good Read: Putting numbers on health care waste
Imagine getting a 34% surcharge on your next restaurant tab, with the explanation that it’s to help pay for a bloated and inefficient restaurant industry. When it comes to health care costs, it’s a similar …
Read MoreRain stalls Iowa’s harvest
Des Moines Register: Rain has slowed the harvest across the state in recent days. National Weather Service data for Des Moines showed that Central Iowa on Wednesday matched the October rainfall record of 7.29 inches, set …
Read MoreUI business dean, interim diversity head departing
Sarah Gardial, dean of the University of Iowa’s Tippie College of Business since 2012, will leave that position to become business dean at a private Christian college in Nashville, Tenn., UI officials announced.
As dean, …
West Bank reports record quarterly earnings of $7.5 million
West Bancorporation Inc., the parent company of West Bank, today reported third-quarter net income of $7.5 million, or 46 cents per share, topping year-ago net income of $7.1 million and marking a new earnings record for the …
Read MoreBusiness Record 10-25-19
Connecting workers with disabilities to local employers
Focus: Business of Branding
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Read MoreNOTEBOOK: Who’s in the Oct. 25 issue?
Here’s a list of local people in the Oct. 25 issue of the Business Record and the page number of the article in which they are mentioned. Members can read all of this week’s stories …
Read MoreNOTEBOOK: A friend of Des Moines’ flag
The great podcaster Roman Mars will always be an audio legend for two reasons:
Of course, his voice — Roman Mars has an inarguably great podcasting voice on “99% Invisible,” which explores the great and …
Read MoreNOTEBOOK: Processing trauma even while helping others through it
Shortly after Hurricane Katrina, a group of trauma experts went to New Orleans to help residents process and cope with what they were going through. One emergency room doctor told the leaders that the hospital …
Read MoreA federal case for STEM
Jeff Weld, Iowa’s guru on all things STEM, spent a year in Washington, D.C. working on a project that in many ways gave him a chance to spread the word on successful approaches in Iowa …
Read MoreMcLellan: How neighborly is your marketing?
“Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood” hit the airwaves in 1968, and 912 episodes later its final episode aired in 2001. In an era of children’s programming that was focused on reading, writing and arithmetic, Mr. Rogers focused …
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