For most of us, Rolls-Royce means luxurious automobiles. But there’s another Rolls-Royce that doesn’t make cars in Mankato.
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This piece is part of an occasional series focused on practical, proven strategies that can drive new economic growth in ...
While this may be an exaggeration, it is the origin of the word “sabotage.” This was the precursor of the AI revolution, and ...
Over the past year, I’ve spent a good deal of time traveling across the country, meeting with clients, partners, and business leaders in regions experiencing rapid economic growth. There’s a common ...
Medtronic’s latest quest for growth has focused on a key area: acquiring companies to quickly expand into new markets. To do that, it made more acquisitions in the past year than it had in the ...
When Efrain Torres traveled to Silicon Valley this spring to be a part of Y Combinator (YC), a renowned startup accelerator that offers a three-month mentorship program for early-stage companies, he ...
The Minnesota Business Partnership conducted a lengthy search process in 2023 to find a successor for Charlie Weaver, who excelled at leading the organization for 20 years. Kurt Zellers, a former ...
For the second year in a row, Minnesota has seen an increase in companies on the Inc. 5000 List. This year, a total of 81 Minnesota-based companies landed on the annual list by Inc. magazine, up from ...
Today, Minnesota ranks last in defense spending per capita. But the state has a new defense technology player in town that’s aiming to help bring together a group of innovative local businesses to ...
There are companies that score high marks for employee satisfaction, and then there’s Anytime Fitness, which built a tattoo parlor at its Woodbury headquarters because so many employees wanted the ...
Chris Heim occupies a relatively rare space among executives: a CEO who’s also an elected official. Minneapolis-based IT firm Atomic Data announced Wednesday that Heim has been picked to serve as CEO.