Entrepreneurs

A man with 30 years of experience in the private sectors has been appointed as secretary of the Wisconsin Department of Commerce. Jack Fischer, president and CEO of the Fischer Group Companies, will succeed Mary Burke, who announced her departure last month. ...

Rockwell Automation's stock continues to rise, literally, following a Q4 earning conference call in which it reported healthy quarterly profits and a more robust earnings expectation for 2008. ...

With regard to the recently enacted state budget, columnist Tom Still asks the $57 billion question: what does this tax-and-spend plan actually accomplish over the next two years? In this edition of Inside Wisconsin, he supplies a few answers, including renewal and expansion of the...

Former Microsoft CIO Stuart Scott isn't the first executive to be abruptly dismissed by the software giant, and he probably won't be the last. Chalk it up as a lesson to technology workers or any worker, especially in deep-pocket companies. In this litigation climate, such...

A bill that extends the federal moratorium on locally imposed Internet taxes will not impede Wisconsin's ability to tax access to the Internet. The bill, which is expected to be signed into law by President Bush, grandfathers Internet access taxes previously enacted in Wisconsin and...

With the job market having radically changed for many, customary practices are no longer customary, observes columnist James Carlini. In this edition of Carlini's Comments, he explains why giving two-week's notice is no longer a customary practice, and why employers have nobody to blame but...

More young people have been bitten by the entrepreneurial bug than we think, but we don't always do enough to give them the tools they need to succeed, according to Inside Wisconsin columnist Tom Still. Case in point is Kevin Plank, the former University of...