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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: A thriving Rochester is Mayo Clinic's only option

You could hear echoes of past debates over stadium subsidies in the chatter that followed Mayo Clinic’s proposal for up...

Updated: February 10, 2013, - 02:19 PM

Schafer: Money talk isn't just for those with millions

The strategy that’s driving U.S. Bancorp’s ultra-high net worth wealth management practice is based on the idea that to preserve...

Updated: February 05, 2013, - 11:30 PM

Schafer: Professional firms won't stick around for new tax

Mark Dayton certainly doesn't want to drive the law firm Fish & Richardson out of the state.

Updated: February 02, 2013, - 04:07 PM

Schafer: What is Michael Dell thinking?

Michael Dell appears on the verge of giving up.

Updated: January 30, 2013, - 07:38 PM

Schafer: Innovation, one business situation at a time

Innovators International calls its clients "members" and brings them together for regular meetings, but it's not networking they are doing.

Updated: January 26, 2013, - 04:49 PM

Schafer: Fed notes dry, but only until you read them

The Federal Reserve's latest release of transcripts of its policy-making committee meetings after five years has provided plenty of fodder for the Fed's critics.

Updated: January 22, 2013, - 09:09 PM

Schafer: North Memorial scrambles as reform upends health care

North Memorial Health Care would make anyone's list of candidates to get merged out of independent existence as the industry consolidation kicked off by health care reform continues.

Updated: January 19, 2013, - 03:13 PM

Schafer: Go west? Big data fits nicely right here

Fair Isaac Corp., the company known as FICO, recently described its motivation in moving its headquarters from Minnesota to San Jose, Calif., as a desire to get closer to the technical talent base of what is called big data.

Updated: January 17, 2013, - 08:49 PM

Holiday results reveal challenges for Target

Target Corp.'s holiday-season sales at stores open for at least a year were no higher than in the same period a year earlier, missing the consensus estimate among investors of a 1.5 percent increase.

Updated: January 12, 2013, - 10:48 PM