When 240 senior leaders of a Silicon Valley tech company were asked to name the factors that got them promoted to their level, one eclipsed all others, and it wasn’t professional expertise, delivering business results or leadership skills.
Summit Carbon Solutions is looking to build a five-state carbon pipeline that could help Iowa’s ethanol industry but has faced some opposition.
U.S. Bancorp is joining the banking industry’s consolidation rush with a nearly $8 billion deal to purchase MUFG Union Bank, which chiefly operates in West Coast states.
American utility companies, including those in Iowa, are facing increasing pressure to slash greenhouse gas emissions in hopes of preventing the worst effects of global climate change.
Quietly, during the COVID-19 pandemic, the UI surpassed its goal of having 40 percent renewable energy by 2020. The university now has at least 42 percent of its power from renewable sources and one boiler exclusively fed biomass fuels.
With climate change already knocking at our door, there’s a more urgent need to reduce greenhouse gases than 10 to 15 years down the road. That’s where ethanol comes in, according to industry proponents.
A Fort Dodge-based cooperative with several locations across North Iowa was struck by a ransonware attack and has shut down its computer systems as a result.
The central Iowa city has spent the past 14 years reestablishing itself after Maytag, the washing machine manufacturer that at its peak employed more than 3,000 people, left the city in 2007.
From wage increases to changes in company culture, companies are competing for a limited pool of workers.
Magna International’s subsidiary Williamsburg Manufacturing received a state tax credit for a $46 million project that will create 521 jobs.
The Family Caregivers Center of Mercy has received a $1 million donation, officials announced this week. The Mercy Medical Center Foundation said the donation from John, Cindy and Bailey Bloomhall of Cedar Rapids and Naples, Fla., will fund two new staff positions at the center’s second location over the course of five years.
Iowa’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate remained unchanged at 4.1 percent in August — a level that was well below the national rate and the number of Iowans who were thrown out of work a year ago during the economic throes of COVID-19 pandemic.
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