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SimonDelivers More
Online grocer SimonDelivers is responding to consumer demand for more local, organic, healthy, and convenient foods.
Leonid Hurwicz's Game
Unpredictability and uncertainty define the life of Leonid Hurwicz—they also earned him a Nobel Prize in Economics.
Making it Big
Did the early settlers of Minnesota foreshadow the state’s current commercial building prowess?
NAIOP Careful Constructions
The Minnesota chapter of the National Association of Industrial and Office Properties names the top commercial projects for 2007.
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Ideas That Heal
Meet the Mayo Clinic’s team that helps turn curious physicians into industry innovators.
Forward in Place
How Brooklyn Center’s Kurt Manufacturing accidentally became an in-home fitness leader.
Language Barrier: Removed
Looking to grow beyond military contracts, Northfield's SpeechGear hopes international businesses put down the dictionary and pick up an instant translator.
Electric Events Advances in connectivity and projection technologies are transforming the meeting and conference experience.
Africa's Minnesota Stats Which African countries are growing the fastest, and how are Minnesota companies contributing?
Leonid Hurwicz Nobel Ceremony See clips from Nobel laureate Leonid Hurwicz's ceremony recognizing his award-winning work in economics.
Ginnie, Freddie, and Fannie Find out how mortgage-backed securities from Ginnie, Fannie, and Freddie differ from traditional bonds.
Commercial Real Estate
Builder Portfolios
Minnesota is home to many of the nation’s largest commercial builders. (See “Making It Big,” March 2007 Twin Cities Business, page 44.) This diverse portfolio of Minnesota projects will give you an idea why.
Insurance
Avoiding Risk, Lowering Costs
Insurance companies are particularly eager to compete for business in the Midwest, which has fewer, less comprehensive weather-related disasters than the coasts.
Meetings and Events
Grain Elevator and Processing Society Exchange 2007 trade show
Gaylord Texan Resort & Convention Center, Grapevine, Texas
Meridian: Breaking the Barrier
Hilton Minneapolis Hotel, Nicollet Island Pavilion
5th Annual Carlson Hotels development meeting and Desert Challenge golf outing
Radisson Fort McDowell Resort and Casino, Fountain Hills, Arizona; We-Ko-Pa Golf Club, Fort McDowell, Arizona; and Penske Auto Racing museum, Phoenix
CHS Annual Meeting
Minneapolis Convention Center
Technology
Achieving Compliance: Rules & Tools
IT is almost always a means by which compliance is accomplished.
Sending IT Offshore
A number of IT consulting firms in the Twin Cities now act as intermediaries to help companies send software-development projects and ongoing systems-maintenance operations to Asia or Eastern Europe.
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