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By Tracy Will WisBusiness.com MADISON -- "Managing risk is really the key to success in business," 3M corporate development manager Raymond B. Eby said Thursday, adding that "transparency is key to success in acquiring businesses in other countries." During a Thursday forum at Edgewood College, Eby discussed his experience in acquiring businesses in Latin America, Europe, and Africa, and the influence of...

By Gregg Hoffmann Secretary Matt Frank of the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources and other officials gathered near the banks of Timber Coulee in Vernon County Thursday to announce a major increase in stream habitat restoration for 2009. Seven local chapters of Trout Unlimited have been granted more than $800,000 in federal funds for 10 stream projects in Wisconsin’s Driftless Area,...

From WisBusiness.com ... -- Department of Workforce Development Secretary Roberta Gassman announced Thursday that Wisconsin’s unemployment rate for September was 4.4 percent, down 0.3 percentage points from August. The national rate for September was 6.0, down 0.1 percentage point from August, and up 1.5 percentage points from September 2007. "Wisconsin's unemployment...

By Russell Korinek For WisBusiness.com Milwaukee-based Manpower Inc. chairman and CEO Jeff Joerres scoffed at notions that foreign markets were somehow immune or “decoupled” from the U.S. economic recession and blamed poor risk management for the recent market slide. “Risk was disregarded, and terrible decisions were made,” Joerres said of the path chosen by financial institutions leading up to today's economic...