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Career Resources Group is helping some of Iowa’s largest companies, one employee at a time.

The firm’s five consultants specialize in human resources-related issues and helping companies increase worker productivity, fields in which opportunities are …

The Iowa Chamber Alliance wants the Legislature to raise taxes on cigarettes and gambling to create a dependable funding source for the Grow Iowa Values Fund, which under current law relies on growth in sales …

The most magical moment for Joseph Giunta is when he enters the nearly empty Civic Center of Greater Des Moines before a concert. The musicians set up, tuning their instruments. The audience begins to file …

On Oct. 5, 1953, Helen Lynch opened the Des Moines office of Manpower Inc., it was the Milwaukee-based company’s second franchise and the first temporary employment agency in Iowa’s capital city. She had an order …

Dear Mr. Berko:

Can you give me the names of a half-dozen or so issues that you believe will outperform the market over the next six years? I know that companies like Exxon Mobil Corp., …

Why do salespeople leave their jobs? Why do salespeople NOT leave their jobs? Why are some salespeople “stuck” in their jobs? All these questions will be answered — and more.     Consider this e-mail:

Jeffrey, first …

As special counsel to the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, Mary Sjoquist works to formulate rules required by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and other policies affecting public accounting firms. Previously, she was a partner …

Kristi Arp spent 10 years working in retail. She loved her job as a manager for Merle Norman cosmetics, but working retail hours — being away from her family on weekends and holidays — was …

Signs and banners are cropping up all over town. They portray a dreamy-eyed blonde girl named Clara with the words “The Nutcracker, presented by Ballet Theatre of Des Moines” emblazoned across the top. Dec. 5 …

Developer Tim Urban is bringing an element of the big city to suburbia.

West Glen, a $100 million combination of homes, shops and office space, promises to create West Des Moines’ densest complex. It will …