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Could cities now mandate vaccines for private employers?

Don’t mess up your open enrollment selections

Telework to remain part of Madison’s workplace fabric

Madison ranks 5th for tech workers looking to relocate

Feature Take Five With Matt Anderson Panel

Take Five with Matt Anderson: Chips are down when sales are up

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Former day care center director pleads guilty to wire fraud

Virtual convenience store opens on State Street

Biofuel startup makes historic flight

Bookstore honored with industry award

Google again delays return to offices

WYSO shares revised vision for $29 million music center

Feature Take Five With Carol Schroeder Panel

Take Five with Carol Schroeder: Expect a retail rebound this holiday season

‘Chester the Digester’ keeps Madison College’s food waste out of landfills

Picking the brains of 30 Madison business consultants

Feature Take Five Eisenberg Part 2 Panel

Take Five with Elliott Eisenberg, Part 2: Signaling interest rate hikes early could stave off recession

Community banks have the edge on local business banking needs

Take Five with Elliott Eisenberg: Economic forecast is growing but slowing

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40 Under 40 Reunion

IB held its second reunion for past 40 Under 40 classes on Nov. 9, bringing back 21 years of honorees for an evening of networking and memories at The Madison Club.

Ex Libris: New Recipe

Madison Public Library Foundation hosted more than 400 guests for Ex Libris: New Recipe, the organization's 11th annual fall fundraiser, on Nov. 5 at Central Library.

33rd annual Heat’s On event

Over 40 area steamfitters volunteered a day of labor to inspect and service heating systems in 40 qualified veterans’ homes throughout Dane County.

Jane Simon, State Bank of Cross Plains

IB’s Professional of the Week is the premier way to meet Dane County’s professionals. This week features Jane Simon, vice president–private banking, State Bank of Cross Plains.

Jane Ryan, FarWell

IB’s Professional of the Week is the premier way to meet Dane County’s professionals. This week features Jane Ryan, vice president – client solutions, FarWell.

T.R. Moreau, BMO Wealth Management

IB’s Professional of the Week is the premier way to meet Dane County’s professionals. This week features T.R. Moreau, director–BMO Wealth Management, advisor–BMO Private Bank.

Cybersecurity isn’t just a techie issue, but a training and business challenge

Here’s a holiday office gift no business should want. Sophisticated cyberthieves have taken to delivering innocent-looking packages, usually without any department or person named, in anticipation they will sit unnoticed and unclaimed on a mailroom shelf for a while. Inside the package: Devices that can remotely steal or compromise a company’s digital data.

Thoughts for business executives on future-proofing a business

As chief information officer at Johnson Financial Group, I seek to ensure our technology never gets in the way of the business moving forward. I call this “future-proofing” a business — though that may not mean quite what you’d expect.

There’s still reason for doubt, but nuclear power regaining favor

A strange thing happened at the global climate summit in Glasgow: Nuclear power was not given the customary back of the hand.

Black- and brown-owned businesses getting more attention; can it be sustained?

Suddenly, it seems, more people are intrigued by investing in businesses owned or led by people of color.

When cheeseheads fumble

When you think about all the uproar in Packerland over the last few weeks, don’t you wonder where the grown-ups were? I do.

Evolution of state investor tax credit law good for young companies

As they pitched to investors during the recent Wisconsin Early Stage Symposium, many entrepreneurs made a point of saying their companies are “QNBV-certified,” which is an acronym for one of Wisconsin’s oldest and most successful tax credit programs.

Not your ordinary inflation

During the 1970s and ’80s, inflation was truly out of control. Prices would increase by 10–14% or more so quickly that consumers would buy things immediately simply to avoid paying substantially more the next month, the next week, or even the next day.

OSHA releases emergency temporary standard for COVID-19 vaccination, testing, and face coverings

On Nov. 4, 2021, the Occupational Safety & Hazard Administration (OSHA) released its Emergency Temporary Standard (“rule”) which requires most private-sector employers with 100 or more employees (“covered employers”) to adopt COVID-19 vaccination and testing policies.

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