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David Noble spent 10 years working his way to the top of The Statesman Group Inc. He presided over the insurer for another 12 years, selling it to Indianapolis-based insurance giant Conseco for $350 million …

On Friday Dec. 12, MidAmerica Group Inc. Chairman and Chief Executive Marvin Pomerantz sent his private Hawker jet to whisk Teresa Wahlert from Des Moines to his home in the tony California desert oasis town …

It was just a year ago that the John Pappajohn Entrepreneurial Center at North Iowa Area Community College sponsored a “Seed Investing as a Team Sport” seminar.

The seminar generated enough interest among potential investors …

Retailers aren’t the only ones working at a crazy pace during the holidays. Inside Elliott Aviation’s expansive hangar on the south end of Des Moines International Airport, technicians are busy outfitting multi-million-dollar aircraft with electronic …

Approval of $4 million in funding by the Vision Iowa board gives the Principal Riverwalk project an added boost for private fundraising, says an official with Principal Financial Group Inc.

“I think it’s going to …

During Charles Wittmack’s assault on Mt. Everest in May, it seemed at times that the mountain was the one doing the beating.

Winds as strong as 80 mph blew him off his feet more than …

Brown, Winick Graves, Gross, Baskerville & Schoenebaum, known as one of Des Moines’ strongest corporate law firms, is adding muscle on Jan. 1 with the additional of seven veteran attorneys and a new office in …

What does it take to make the sale?   I’m not talking about probing, presenting and overcoming prospects’ objections. I’m talking about the big picture. I am talking about strategy.  If you have no strategy, you walk …

The Iowa Farm Bureau Federation recently held its 85th annual meeting in Des Moines, where it re-elected Craig Lang to a second term as the federation’s president. The statewide organization represents about 155,000 members, about …

A month ago, Dan Gross underwent surgery to remove a pituitary gland tumor.

“I was back to work in two weeks,” he said. “My wife yelled at me, but I came back.”

Gross said he …