WisBusiness: State labor secretary: `We will come through this’
By Tracy Will
For WisBusiness.com
MADISON -- Gov. Jim Doyle's labor secretary laid out a depressing view of the state's job picture on Tuesday but said "together we will come through this."
Roberta Gassman, the secretary of the Department of Workforce Development, said state unemployment in Wisconsin "is nearing what we see at the national level." The state unemployment rate is...
WisBusiness: Fiserv CEO sees ‘massive shift’ in financial landscape
By Tammy McCubbin
For WisBusiness.com
MILWAUKEE - Jeff Yabuki, president and CEO of Fiserv, Inc., spoke this afternoon about the changing landscape of financial services, saying that “we are seeing a massive shift in the landscape.”
Yabuki told a gathering of the Rotary Club of Milwaukee that the shift, “has everything to do with how our future generations are going to...
WisBusiness: Stimulus seen as boost for UW-Madison research
By WisBusiness Staff
Carl E. Gulbrandsen, WARF managing director, told the monthly WisBusiness.com luncheon that the new federal stimulus package is good news for UW-Madison research.
“The university is in the sweet spot of the stimulus package,” Gulbrandsen said Monday, singling out projects like the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery being built on campus, and the medical research, bio-energy and green energy...
