Barbara Rose

It's been two weeks since the Andersen accounting firm fired David Duncan, the man being blamed for its Enron document-shredding orgy. Duncan, who was Andersen's lead partner on the Enron...

Prodded by a Texas judge, the Andersen accounting firm has launched an aggressive campaign to retrieve Enron Corp. records destroyed by its Houston staff, but many of the missing documents...

Religion and politics are such time-honored sources of controversy that etiquette advisers suggest leaving them off the table in dinner party conversations. These days, Emily Post might suggest adding a...

This is a story about what people can accomplish when they get fed up with bureaucracy. It's about a group of Chicago-area graduates of a state university who quietly rolled...

FreeDrive CEO Dean DeBiase rests the heels of his black cowboy boots on a window ledge in his North Riverside Plaza office and settles back to schmooze. "These are my...

The new year brings fresh proof, if we needed any, that Internet users are a lot like the rest of us. Despite the digital divide, people who browse, chat and...

It's the time of year when Chicago commuters tune up their chorus of sniffles. Decked head-to-toe in quilted down coats, they gather on "L" platforms and at bus stops, looking...

There aren't a lot of high-tech gadgets at the school where Jeralyn Harris works, but there are a lot of big hearts. There are children with big hearts who come...

Art Institute of Chicago director A. Steven Crown listened intently as Dr. Conrad P. Seghers, a Texas trader with a doctorate, described his scientific method of investing. Using charts and...

The great AT&T Broadband mess of 2001 will go down as a lesson in frustration for tens of thousands of customers. Their purportedly lightning fast, always-on connection to the Internet...