Greg Burns

In a city known for its architecture, it must be the most boring $500 million building around -- on the outside, that is. Microsoft Corp.'s new data center in suburban...

In the three months since Scott Flanders took over for Christie Hefner as CEO of Playboy Enterprises Inc., he has come to a simple conclusion about its magazine, TV and...

Before Mapquest and Google Maps hit it big, before built-in GPS screens started appearing on dashboards everywhere, there was Rand McNally & Co. Surprisingly, against the odds, there still is...

The Chicago office of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is one of the most aggressive federal agencies around, and this week it is rising to the defense of female auto...

Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit has a message for government bureaucrats determined to revamp executive pay on Wall Street. Bring it on. "The concept of restructuring the pay on Wall Street...

What started as a "man-cession" is turning into a "Great He-pression." The unemployment rate for men is running 2.7 percentage points higher than for women -- a "just unprecedented" spread,...

Uncle Sam plays by the rules, Social Security will award no cost-of-living increase for next year or, very likely, the year after that. But on Capitol Hill during hard economic...

After Lehman Brothers failed last year, Wall Street looked ripe for reform. It seemed impossible that Uncle Sam would keep funding huge losses in bad times and still leave dealers...

It draws on cutting-edge university research. It's funded by a well-capitalized local investor. It's a risk-taking start-up in an emerging field. And most remarkable, according to Chief Executive James Hussey,...

Watching Matt Damon's new comedy about corporate crime in the Corn Belt, you might wonder how the government ever wins a complex antitrust case. This should have been an easy...