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: 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 25, 2013, - 05:02 PM

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

Schafer: Booming stock market isn't enough to fix 401(k) problems

It’s going to take more than a strong stock market to fix America’s broken self-directed retirement finance model. From the grim...

Updated: May 11, 2013, - 09:09 PM

Schafer: Insurers aren't in the collection business

From the files of why the business community gets aggravated by the legislature comes a proposed $5 surcharge that insurance...

Updated: May 09, 2013, - 11:20 PM

Schafer: Off-hours activities can burn employees

Minnesota Vikings Football LLC seems determined to get rid of its employee Chris Kluwe, and you can’t help but conclude...

Updated: May 05, 2013, - 06:54 AM

Schafer: From struggle comes great leadership

Steven Snyder, whose new book “Leadership and the Art of Struggle” talks about how leaders grow through adversity, started a...

Updated: May 02, 2013, - 09:07 PM

Schafer: Longtime bullish analyst at Piper Jaffray is sticking with Apple

It would be hard to exaggerate Gene Munster’s celebrity as an Apple stock bull. Last year Bloomberg Businessweek concluded that the...

Updated: April 27, 2013, - 05:45 PM

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