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Lee Schafer

Lee Schafer

Business Columnist at Star Tribune

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  • English
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Recent Articles

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Schafer: Bringing the hustle back to Medtronic

Geoff Martha became CEO of the nation’s largest medical-device company just as coronavirus spread across the land. His first job was to quintuple production of respiratory ventilators.
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Schafer: It’s OK for banks to make money, if it means their custome...

Credit loss accounting is an important measure of bank health and was a telltale sign of how the pandemic affected the economy.
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Schafer: CEO pay is broken, but what about low-wage pay?

The debate over the outsized pay to executives is going nowhere. But the action at the low end of the wage spectrum is interesting.
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Schafer: The biggest transfer of wealth in history is underway, for...

Some well-off boomers are going to be turning over a big slug of wealth to some very lucky millennials.
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Rent control is always popular, but it never works - The Lima News

There’s never been much enthusiasm among mainstream economic thinkers for having the government hold down apartment rents through rent controls, an i
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Schafer: Rent control is always popular, but it never works

In St. Paul, there are a lot of people who can’t afford the rent. Putting rules on landlords won’t solve that.
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How a hugely valuable startup succeeded without inventing anything

Bright Health went public last week in Minnesota’s biggest-ever IPO.
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Schafer: Good luck with management by Zooming around

Bosses can learn a lot by wandering around the office.
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Schafer: Back to normal means the normal challenges are back, too

The news that General Mills is cutting jobs after its stellar response to the pandemic, and the results that followed, shows that going back to where things were was never going to be easy.
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Schafer: Making a lot of money and being rich are not the same thing

An attention-grabbing article on the income taxes paid, or not paid, by some of America’s wealthiest people framed its analysis poorly.
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Schafer: Let’s keep hybrid work from being the worst of both worlds

The best workplaces will have people connecting all the time with each other across the organization chart.
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Schafer: Retirement trends show that work just might not be worth it

The cost of work has gone up and pay is still catching up.
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Schafer: Workplace can’t be just about work, so employees need an o...

Keeping the conversation from spiraling into forever wars isn’t just up to the managers, though.
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Schafer: Commerce at home is the newest ‘New Era in Retailing’

Loup Ventures of Minneapolis thinks one of its portfolio companies called Enjoy, about to go public, represents the next thing in retail.
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Schafer: Why cars, chips, lumber and other goods are suddenly more ...

Small changes in end-user buying lead to bigger swings in the operations of suppliers down the value chain.
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Schafer: Supply chain shows its resilience in pandemic

The case for long supply chains remains intact, so long as they are flexible and adaptable.
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Schafer: A venture capitalist shines a light on ‘new builders’ outs...

Follow the StarTribune for the news, photos and videos from the Twin Cities and beyond.
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Banks resist racial-equity audits, but they shouldn’t

Wells Fargo & Co. shareholders are voting on a proposal to have the company conduct a racial-equity audit.
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Schafer: How bosses can prevent employee churn at pandemic’s end

Workers have reported high levels of burnout.
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Schafer: There’s good reason to believe Glen Taylor’s Timberwolves ...

Taylor’s efforts to keep the NBA team in Minneapolis should be successful.
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Schafer: A Dayton brother tackles a new horizon, efficiency in phil...

Constellation Fund is built on the notion that relying on objective evidence is the way to direct money into the most promising programs.