Kate Macarthur

Like many technology startup founders, Cari Sacks is a student who built a mobile app to solve a problem. Sacks, a Highland Park art collector and master's candidate at the...

Whether in government or business, the transition to new leadership can be challenging and instructive. Clint Coghill, founding chairman of Chicago-based Backstop Solutions Group, learned that in May 2013 when...

Marie Trzupek Lynch is tackling the problem of the long-term unemployed from a different angle as founding president and CEO of public-private partnership Skills for Chicagoland's Future, an initiative backed...

When The Bunker incubator at 1871 launches its first startup class Nov. 1, it will realize founder and CEO Todd Connor's ambition to translate veterans' military experience to entrepreneurship. A...

Environment. Leadership. Codes of conduct. These are elements of company culture. For startups and corporations alike, ethos can dramatically influence how well an organization innovates. We collected some simple but...

Later-stage technology companies often enter uncharted territory when new business or revenue models don't fit existing financial regulations. Lisa Portnoy helps them address those issues as an assurance partner of...

Craig Dubitsky wants to change how you think about toothpaste and mouthwash. Dubitsky, founder and CEO of New Jersey-based Hello Products, launched his brand of "naturally friendly oral care" in...

Monitoring a sick child's temperature can be disruptive and unreliable. That's what Lake Forest native William Duckworth is trying to solve with the Fever Smart patch thermometer, which links to...

Rebecca Parsons is CTO at Chicago-based agile software development firm ThoughtWorks Inc., which works with businesses and organizations such as Caterpillar Inc., Gap Inc. and the U.K. government. Part of...