Business Columns
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What drives business buyersJul 13, 2015 5:43 am - You likely can count the number of business buyers looking for a fixer-upper on one hand, with at least your thumb left over. Performance counts. The IT sector buyer Hao...
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Career Coach Q&A: Am I crazy to start a job search while pregnant?Jul 12, 2015 7:40 am - Joyce E.A. Russell, vice dean at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business and director of its Executive Coaching and Leadership Development Progra...
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Glen Ellyn mom wins award for work with suburban kidsJul 12, 2015 7:03 am - Kate Cozzani of Glen Ellyn surrounds herself with her six children, teaches other kids, coaches even more kids - and wouldn't have it any other way, she said. Cozzani is...
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Local nurse builds 600-employee private home health care firmJul 12, 2015 7:00 am - When Molly Miceli started her company 26 years ago, she was on the cutting edge of an industry that was set to explode. Over the years, while growing Schaumburg-based Li...
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The best forecasters rely on probabilities, not predictionsJul 12, 2015 6:42 am - Statistician Nate Silver correctly predicted the outcome of every state in the 2012 presidential election. It instantly shot him to fame in a field most people associate...
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Will our deficit-culture ever stop paying Social Security?Jul 12, 2015 6:22 am - According to last year's Social Security trustees report, the program's trust fund would end 2014 with a stunning balance of $2.784 trillion. Unfortunately, the trustees...
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Innovation is only seen in hindsightJul 11, 2015 6:31 am - Wilbur and Orville Wright's airplane flew for the first time in December 1903. It was one of the most important innovations of human history, changing the world in every...
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To create inflation, money can't be dormantJul 06, 2015 6:00 am - Q: The Federal Reserve has printed trillions of dollars to purchase Treasury bonds and mortgages. With so much excess money in circulation, isn't this going to result in...
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Entrepreneurs share tips for adding 'wow' factorJul 06, 2015 6:00 am - We need more business-generating wows. Newsletters still work. So do phone calls, face-to-face networking, referrals and advertising. But establishing the "wow!" factor ...
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How Dick Portillo built a hot dog stand into an empireJul 05, 2015 7:30 am - Dick Portillo was facing a lonely Thanksgiving as a U.S. Marine in 1957. At 17, the Chicagoan had gone through boot camp, learned to march and slept in a Quonset hut in...