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Power Breakfast: Why we’re discussing #MeToo

The past year has been filled with the fallout and consequences from news of sexual harassment in the workplace. The #MeToo movement has increased the attention and sensitivity to harassment in the workplace and provided …

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Connecting the Gems

The steady creep of the Great Recession probably was going unnoticed in late 2007 and early 2008 unless you were losing your job, your retirement savings or a piece of development land.

When it struck …

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MPO terminates contract with indicted transload facility operator

The Des Moines Metropolitan Area Planning Organization’s executive committee on Friday voted to terminate its contract with the owner of a Nebraska company that had been selected to operate a planned rail-truck transload facility east …

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Innovative Companies: Intoxalock Ignition Interlock

The Problem: Historically, individuals charged with operating while intoxicated in Iowa and other states lost their driver’s license, Intoxalock CEO Kimberly Williams said. Without public transportation or other daily means, most individuals would just drive …

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Innovative Companies: Kading Properties

The problem: In the 1970s, Rick Kading was working for a construction company, and buying and rehabbing homes in his spare time, leasing them after the work was completed. He decided to sell off the …

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Innovative Companies: Time ReDesigned

The problem: School administrators face many competing demands for their time during the day and can often find it difficult to spend the time needed on high-priority issues that will result in better education outcomes …

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Innovative Companies: Bankers Trust Co.

The problem: Bankers Trust has spent the better part of a century building relationships with its business banking customers. But there’s a hitch. Building that relationship to get their deposits, their treasury management, their lending …

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A Closer Look: Alissa Nelson

It’s a safe bet that Alissa Nelson is one of the few interior designers who has viewed her handiwork from the ground level up to 20,000 feet or so. For the last four years, she …

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NOTEBOOK: Who’s in the August 31st Issue?

Here’s a list of local people in the July 27 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 …

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Creating greater empathy and inclusion in the workplace

When you know someone’s story, it’s hard not to feel a connection. 

For the past six years, an Indiana-based nonprofit group called the Facing Project has worked with communities across the country to help tell …