Greg Burns

Chicago software provider SPSS Inc. reported financial results for one of the last times this week, as giant IBM prepares to absorb it in a $1.2 billion buyout. Get ready...

After the disasters at Three Mile Island and Chernobyl, years passed before anyone took seriously the idea of a nuclear revival. Then our friend the atom started making a comeback....

The recession is over. Or at least almost over. But it doesn't feel over. And to some extent, we'll never get over it. That theme is being played across the...

When the federal government cited Chicago's Kendall College as one of the five most financially distressed schools of higher education in the country, it raised an obvious question: What about...

With its stock down more than $400 from the peak, CME Group Inc. may be seeing some of its best trading opportunities not in the screen or pit, but in...

A doctor. A professor. A trash collector, funeral director and midlevel federal bureaucrat. They all share one common element: They're recession-proof, right? No question, their jobs sound safe and secure...

Mark Whitacre wasn't amused when the feds locked him up for almost nine years after he blew the whistle on one of the juiciest corporate scandals ever. Now he's being...

As of this moment, the American taxpayer officially owns 61 percent of the new, post-bankruptcy General Motors Co. and 8 percent of Chrysler Group LLC. So now what? If the...

The Obama administration's energy policy is finally coming into focus: Oil speculation? No. Biofuel speculation? Bring it on. Through federal mandates, government financing, stimulus-fund giveaways and the cheerleading of Energy...

Ask almost any business executive about the U.S. public school system, and the answer is typically the same -- unprintable. In general, business has a beef with the way schools...