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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

• Survey says: Minnesota companies ride out economic 'perfect storm’
  Watchful and wary, Minnesota companies ride out an economic 'perfect storm.'
  Apr 22, 2009
• State's biggest companies down but not out
  As Wall Street panicked, Minnesota's biggest companies kept cool, made tough choices and planned for what they believe are better days ahead. They are still waiting.
  Apr 18, 2009
• Trouble ahead for Minnesota's nonprofits
  Minnesota's sturdy nonprofit sector braces for tough times as people have less money to give.
  Dec 20, 2008
• 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 17, 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 17, 2001

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