Oracle’s Financials Detail Its Cloud Computing Future

For IT professionals, as well as the CIOs who sign off on expensive Oracle technology, the company's new cloud strategy is a sea change worth watching. Oracle is best known to the general public for co-founder Larry Ellison's flamboyant passion for America's Cup racing yachts, but...

High-impact entrepreneurship is not for the faint of heart. Most venture-backed businesses don’t achieve the levels of success their founders and investors hoped for. Indeed, a significant number will fail. Having worked as legal counsel for dozens of venture-backed startups over the years, what frustrates me...

Many goal words only describe a desirable side effect, while being opaque as to what behaviors might yield that result: • Lose weight. • Get rich. • Innovate. In response to any of these, what is step one? Yes, these words describe measurable outcomes: they qualify as “objectives.”...

James V. Caruso is the new president and CEO of Madison-based Cellectar Biosciences. He succeeds Dr. Simon Pedder, who retired due to personal family reasons. Pedder had served as CEO and president since October 2013. Caruso, 56, was also named to Cellectar’s board as a director. Caruso has...

The following post is authored by Bill Kraus, a senior executive in the insurance business who served as Chief of Staff for GOP Governor Lee Dreyfus in Wisconsin. The message is so important I am posting it in place of my blog this week. Former Governor...

The picture in The Washington Post — a worried Green Bay Packers fan, game-ready with cheesehead and green- and gold-striped face — summed up the disappointing news. So did the headline: "Wisconsin ranked dead last in start-up activity." In a year when new company formation rose nationally,...

In my last blog with Stephen Gold, EVP of Business and Technology Operations and CIO of CVS Health, we discussed Gold’s approach to continuity of value, a process that Gold uses to make sure he and his business partners make the right IT investments. No...