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David Miller, who in February steps down as head of one of the nation’s most profitable banks, keeps track of profits for the same reason that he tallies his golf strokes: to know who’s winning.…

In 1999, Volkswagen AG’s Audi division was searching for a hot way to introduce its TT sports car, already a hot seller in Europe, to U.S. consumers.     The trouble was, the German carmaker didn’t have …

Bank of America, the nation’s third-largest bank by assets, has a new face leading its Iowa operations.  

Rob Oltjen rose to prominence in Kansas as a star performer within Bank of America’s Private Bank, which …

So you’re a top executive at a small to midsize insurance company. Your company’s got some money in its pocket following the state’s tax cut on insurance premiums.   

You’ve agreed, along with Iowa’s other …

Negotiations between the Stadium Foundation and the city of Urbandale continue over the location of Liberty Bank Stadium, the permanent home for the Des Moines Menace soccer club set to open in the spring of …

  Kathryn Dickel, founder and director of operations for Swaelu Media, is a self-proclaimed Renaissance woman. She graduated from Cornell College, located in Mount Vernon, in 1995 with a degree in religion and political science. She …

When the Central Iowa chapter of the National Association of Women Business Owners was formed in 1986, the climate for female enterprisers was very different than it is now.

“It was more about women’s issues, …

Fundamental structural problems in tax systems designed for the 1950s manufacturing economy instead of the modern information age, spiraling Medicaid costs and a middling economy have thrown states into their worst fiscal predicament since World …

Even though it doesn’t directly affect mortgage rates, Jan Metheny, co-owner of the Bethel Financial Group in West Des Moines, says every time Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan announces the Fed is slashing interest …

Sasha J. Mudlaff is director of Hamilton’s Academy of Grief and Loss, a branch of Hamilton’s Funeral Home. Even though her father, Carlton Peterson, is president of Hamilton’s, Mudlaff never thought she would end up …