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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.
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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

Schafer: St. Paul's American Bank gets back to banking basics

American Bank of St. Paul made a profit in its first quarter, which would be unremarkable except that the last...

Updated: April 23, 2013, - 10:09 PM

Schafer: Firms take a business approach to hunger

The Hennepin County Medical Center serves about 1,500 families each month with an emergency food shelf called the therapeutic food...

Updated: April 20, 2013, - 09:07 PM

Schafer: Gold is not the place to look for a safe haven

Earlier this week the Reuters blogger Felix Salmon asked if the weather outside had warmed up to 5,173° F. That’s because...

Updated: April 17, 2013, - 08:53 PM

Schafer: Cargill takes the long view on strategy

Strategic challenges of the next 24 years, rather than 24 months, "resonate far better,” CEO Greg Page says.

Updated: April 13, 2013, - 09:02 PM

Schafer: Sanford critics asked the wrong questions

The hearing into the potential merger of Sanford with Fairview Health Services was a skillfully prepared show designed to make Sanford appear threatening and vaguely disreputable.

Updated: April 12, 2013, - 08:54 PM