Business Longevity Not Only Rare but Worthy of Celebration
As reported in the pages of In Business magazine.
When a business is launched, the entrepreneur is looking to make it to five years, not 55, and take his or her chances from there. The entrepreneurial mindset is not centered on the keys to business longevity, which are different for businesses in different industries. Yet once a business makes it past that all-important mile marker, all it takes is one bad management hire or one recession to put it at risk.
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Executives Make Their Choices
As reported in the pages of In Business magazine.
Area companies get their due in the 2011 Executive Consumer Choice Awards as the preferred vendors of civic-minded Greater Madison business executives. The 940-member IB Executive Register Class of 2011 has spoken, and their discriminating tastes have identified first-, second-, and third-place winners in IB's annual Executive Consumer Choice Awards.
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Hall of Fame 2011
As reported in the pages of In Business magazine.
What if you could find a business executive who not only has what it takes to achieve business success, but also has made an innovative mark on industry — while finding time to contribute mightily to community and encourage employees to do the same? If you could find such an executive, he or she would be an ideal candidate for the In Business magazine Executive Hall of Fame, and five such people have been selected for the Hall of Fame class of 2011: James Imhoff, chairman and CEO, First Weber Group; Laurie Benson, CEO, LSB Unlimited; John Larson, chairman and CEO, National Guardian Life Insurance Group; David Kruger, president, Fiore Companies; and Jay Smith, chairman and CEO, Teel Plastics. They were selected not by IB staffers, but by the sterling 2010 Hall of Fame class that features David Anderson, president and CEO, American Family Insurance; David Walsh, partner, Foley & Lardner; Tom Still, president, Wisconsin Technology Council; and Kathleen Woit, president, Madison Community Foundation. As you read the business stories of the Class of 2011 on the following pages, you'll learn why they are held in such high regard by their Hall of Fame peers.
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Executive Choice Awards 2010
As reported in the pages of In Business magazine.
More than 100 area companies receive the ultimate 2010 recognition - the benediction of their peers in the Greater Madison business community.
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