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John J. Oslund

John J. Oslund

Assistant Business Editor/Research

Phone: 612-673-7206

E-mail: oslund@startribune.com

John J. Oslund supervises the Business Research Team, a group that focuses on Minnesota’s large public companies, tracks executive compensation and monitors the state’s large nonprofit sector. He also edits the KaChing! personal finance page.

Recent content from John J. Oslund

  • The changing of the guard
    Longtime Target Corp. CEO Robert Ulrich took a pay package worth nearly $116 million with him as he left the big discounter and headed into mandatory retirement, enough to earn him the top spot among the Star Tribune's list of the 100 highest-paid CEOs in 2007.
    May 18, 2008
  • Project: 2007 Star Tribune 100: Minnesota's biggest companies
    After beating the S&P 500 for five years straight, the Star Tribune 100 couldn't keep the pace last year despite strong sales and profits.
    Apr 22, 2008
  • Minnesota companies stay upbeat
    Dire economic news has caught the attention of Minnesota's biggest companies, but has not yet dampened their spirits.
    Apr 20, 2008
  • In the black but blue
    For Minnesota's largest companies, sales and earnings rose in 2007. But stock prices -- and attitudes -- are depressed.
    Apr 20, 2008
  • TAKING A BREATHER
    After beating the S&P 500 for five years straight, the Star Tribune 100 couldn't keep the pace last year despite strong sales and profits.
    Nov 19, 2007
  • 'Rationally optimistic' companies have plans to hire, invest in 2007
    Headlines about housing slumps, sinking subprime lenders, surges in Iraq and volatile energy prices have not dampened the spirits of Minnesota's biggest companies.
    Apr 15, 2007
  • For airlines, salvation lies in Washington, not on Wall Street
    Investors punished airline stocks Monday, the first trading day since last week's terrorist attacks, underscoring for Northwest Airlines and its competitors that the industry's near-term hopes for salvation will be found in Washington, D.C., not on Wall Street.
    Sep 18, 2001
  • Banking on Women
    From Dhaka, Bangladesh, to La Paz, Bolivia, to Frogtown in St. Paul, a new model of economic development is evolving -- one that stresses entrepreneurship more than income, individual initiative more than aid and women more than men.
    Oct 8, 2000