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IowaBiz Blog: Marketing is about measuring

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IowaBiz Blog: How secure is your password?

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GUEST OPINION: Frustration grows for investors


With 2011 winding down, the focus was again back on Washington, D.C. This week, the Joint Committee on Deficit Reduction, a/k/a the “supercommittee,” was duty bound to report a bill that would reduce Uncle Sam’s …

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OUR VIEW: Wal-Mart takes art over health


Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is providing a classic study in the question of what a company owes to its employees vs. what it owes to its community.

An organization called Walmart Watch, which keeps its teeth …

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TRANSITIONS: Cut trillions? Can do


Eight of us sat down at a table at Drake University the other night and lopped $4 trillion out of the nation’s budget deficit across the next 10 years. It took about an hour and …

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IowaBiz Blog: The sacrifice of leadership

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IowaBiz Blog: Just get up!

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IowaBiz Blog: The staircase approach to building a business

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IowaBiz Blog: Customer service rule number one

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OUR VIEW: Workers want more than ‘a job’


Everyone in the American business community is aware of the ongoing unemployment problem, but research suggests we would be wise to focus on underemployment as well.

The Great Recession and its seemingly endless aftermath have …