Kaler

The new U of M president faces many challenges. What makes him the right catalyst to take the university out of rough idle?

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Zygi

Zygi Wilf Plays the Game

Throughout his real estate career, he has preferred to stay in the backfield. Getting a new stadium deal has pushed him onto the rough and raucous gridiron where sports and politics do fierce battle.

The Innovatives

The Innovatives

Fifteen individuals who have directed the development of an idea that has led to positive results for his or her company, clients, and customers.

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Call Centers 2.0

The “new Avtex” is positioning itself as a provider of unified, multi-channel customer interaction technology.

Community Investment

Community Investment

A Northfield investment and management firm enters a new field: saving historic, smaller-city hotels and inns.

Stories in the Stones

Stories in the Stones

Online retailer Stauer turned replica jewelry and watches into a $200 million business.

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The Dish on Stanley Hubbard

The Dish on Stanley Hubbard

Minnesota icon Stanley Hubbard's legacy continues with a new venture.

Brady Benson

The Waves He Made

In stockbroker Brady Benson's decades-long career, the industry changed, but he didn't.

CaringBridge

CaringBridge Comes of Age in an Age of Social Media

CaringBridge has long been helping people build social networks, but in a time of social media proliferation, the nonprofit is growing.

Don Shelby

Don Shelby Is Out Standing in His Field

Don Shelby, the Twin Cities' most decorated and longest serving TV news anchor, approaches retirement.

Christine Kunewa Walker and Elizabeth Redleaf

How to Werc the System

Local film production company Werc Werk Works is releasing three new movies and has at least one more in the pipeline—despite a relatively weak indie-film market.

Wipeout

Wipeout

Dan Hanlon was so close to making Excelsior-Henderson motorcycles a lasting company, but it instead fell, along with more than $100 million in investors' money. 

Keith Halleland

Can Keith Halleland Escape the Billable Hour?

Halleland has started a new law firm that offers clients flat fees and other alternative payment arrangements instead of billing for the time attorneys spend on a case.

Carlson in Inndia

Carlson in Inn-dia

Earlier this year, Carlson announced that it would grow its portfolio by 50 percent, to more than 1,500 hotels by 2015. The largest percentage of that growth will be in India.

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