• Family goes China-free for a year

    Sara Bongiorni and her family boycotted all “made in China” products for a year. And it was tough. Sara wrote about her family’s experience in a newly relseased book, “A Year Without ‘Made in China.”‘ She muses that buying shoes […]

  • Debunking the global warming myth

    All it takes is a little science… I’ve asked many a global warming believer what the “temperature” of the earth would be without people and without pollution and without all of the other naughty things they believe to cause global […]

  • Book Publishing: Deciding What to Write

    Since I got my very first book deal with John Wiley & Sons a few months ago, I’ve had professionals ask me how I did it. It’s not surprising that several of my colleagues are interested in writing books themselves, […]

  • Women of Influence: Where Are They Now?

    An Update of Our Women of Influence Alumni Today the winners of the 2007 Women of Influence Awards, given by The Business Journal, were honored at an awards luncheon. Today’s publication included some past winners of the award.

  • Latest from the Usana Insider

    Insider Post Myron Wentz stock street name dr wentz took 45,425 shares from account ending in 088 and placed it at cannacord adams and put it in street name. no crime but check to see if it was sold without […]

  • Crazy Eddie on CNBC

    Last night the Crazy Eddie story was shown on Business Nation, in a short but interesting segment. The show featured a showdown between Eddie Antar and Sam Antar, cousins who perpetrated a massive corporate fraud for years. When asked if […]

  • More on Sarbanes-Oxley and boards of directors

    I got a mention this week on a blog called The Race to the Bottom: A consistently anti-Sarbanes-Oxley site is The FRAUDFiles Blog. Last week, for example, the blog noted a study discussing the changes in boards as a result […]

  • Read Today’s WSJ Story About Usana Carefully…

    This afternoon the Wall Street Journal ran a short piece entitled: “Probe Into Usana Officials Ends With Settlement.” Lots of people apparently got excited at this headline, and interpreted it as complete vindication for Usana Health Sciences. Alas, nothing could […]

  • The enormous cost of complying with Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404

    The Securities and Exchange Commission is being asked to take another look at the cost of complying with Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. This section deals with internal controls in public companies, and a major criticism of SOX is […]

  • A local entrepreneur success story

    The Business Journal had a great feature on Kelly and Jeff Fitzsimmons. Kelly is a well-known Milwaukee entrepreneur, and this venture seems a bit of a change from computer security. Their idea is an “American Idol” type of website for […]