Articles by Dale Buss

Traditional liquid-crystal displays are back-lit. But Mike Casper developed a technology for front-lit LCDs, started a company based on it, and has been manufacturing thin films that are taking front lighting to industries ranging from tablet computers to outdoor advertising to automotive. With its latest round of funding...

Sam Zell stands astride the world of commercial real estate like the Colossus of Rhodes, a legendary billionaire who started managing a student apartment building at the University of Michigan and went on to start Equity Group Investments in Chicago. Now worth an estimated...

Vicki Holt has led her company over a Covid speed bump to accelerate out of the pandemic, has enacted the rollout of crucial new software, has overseen the engineering of a major new acquisition and has begun capitalizing on American manufacturers’ rationalization of...

For Bridgewater Interiors, the best way to bounce back from a pandemic is to double down on what put the $2 billion maker of automotive seats in its strong position before the virus hit. The Detroit-based manufacturer emphasized...

Kara Goldin headed into a local Target store one evening in March and executed a corporate duty she’d left behind a decade ago: merchandising. In the teeth of an unfolding pandemic, the CEO of San Francisco-based Hint Water decided to go where she wouldn’t send her sales team, slipping into...

As the U.S. pandemic started in March, Bob Wheeler and his team projected a 70-percent April drop-off in sales for their Airstream recreational vehicles. That wasn’t an unreasonable expectation given the abrupt shutdown of the economy...

As the executors of some of the most familiar and most powerful brands on the globe, the chief marketing officers of automakers are providing some of the most important brand messages to consumers as the world presses through the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic. And while individually...

There’s a bit of Forrest Gump in Carlton Solle. Like the Tom Hanks movie character who always seemed to show up at pivotal moments, the entrepreneur from northern California has participated in the international boom in energy drinks, helped market soccer in America before it was cool, and...

You always wanted to encourage more telecommuting but grow it at a reasonable pace; there’s still nothing like the team working together in one place. Now the coronavirus is here , enforced social distancing is the new corporate norm, and most of your people are trying to work from home. What to do?...

Economists have begun arguing over whether any recession related to the coronavirus shock will be a V-shaped, quick downturn or a more-prolonged U-shaped despond. All Tom Walter knows is...