Lee Schafer

Columnist | Business
Phone: 612-673-4302
Lee Schafer came to the Star Tribune after 15 years as a corporate officer, consultant and investment banker in the Twin Cities. He has been a columnist for Twin Cities Business magazine and was senior editor for Corporate Report Minnesota.

Recent content from Lee Schafer

Lee Schafer: Bank overdraft rules pick consumers' pockets

New rules that were added three years ago to make the fees for overdrawn checking accounts more transparent and less...

Updated: June 15, 2013, - 02:29 PM

Schafer: Target missing an opportunity to take the lead on Bangladesh

Target has been lying in the weeds since the late April collapse of an eight-story garment factory killed more than...

Updated: June 08, 2013, - 03:51 PM

Schafer: A rocket to the moon? No, more of an elevator

Mike Harvath named the company he founded to help information technology services companies grow Revenue Rocket Consulting Group. He could...

Updated: June 05, 2013, - 08:54 PM

Schafer: Big deals will be the exception for Ecolab

Plenty of corporate executives can turn into deal guys, their steps quickening as they chase a big acquisition. Confidential negotiations, meetings...

Updated: June 01, 2013, - 09:34 PM

Schafer: Venture capitalists behind RedBrick Health in Minneapolis showing patience

Venture capitalists want the companies they fund to succeed famously — or at least fail very fast. Putting more cash than...

Updated: May 28, 2013, - 10:57 PM

Lee Schafer: Target Corp.'s strategy is to extend the Target experience

Flip through the analysts’ comments that followed Target’s first-quarter earnings release last week, and it looks like Target is having...

Updated: May 26, 2013, - 07:04 AM

Schafer: Maturing medical device industry must change

For Norm Dann, it’s pretty simple. “If the medical device industry is going to survive,” he said, “the business model has...

Updated: May 21, 2013, - 07:57 PM

Schafer: Market changes doomed small stocks

The simplest way to understand why this Star Tribune 100 is likely the last that will have 100 publicly held...

Updated: May 18, 2013, - 06:03 PM

Schafer: S.D. sends governor recruiting at the MOA

The setup at the Dakota Roots kiosk at the Mall of America early this week was a bit like queuing...

Updated: May 15, 2013, - 09:35 PM

Schafer: Downtown East plan 30 years in the making

Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak and the City Council were all smiles Tuesday when the Ryan Cos. announced a multi-block mixed-used...

Updated: May 15, 2013, - 08:11 AM

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