Jacob Brown Keeps Michigan Working

A Web designer in Novi, Jacob Brown wanted to do something to streamline employment searches in Michigan. The result is KeepMichiganWorking.com, which offers more than 90,000 job openings in the...

By R.J. King

Healthy Returns at Michigan First Credit Union

When the global financial meltdown arrived in fall 2008, credit unions were one of the last available sources of financing. Michael Poulos, president and CEO of Michigan First Credit Union in...

By R.J. King

Multifamily Housing on the Rebound

The multifamily sector has held up fairly well during the economic downturn, and one bright spot is Dover Realty Advisors in Bingham Farms. Principal and managing partner Terry Schwartz, who has...

By RJ King

Vital Infrastructure

When Warren Mayor Jim Fouts called Detroit’s aging infrastructure a “ticking time bomb that’s ready to go off” earlier this year, he was...

By Alan T. Ackerman

David Farbman & Steve Dooley

David Farbman, founder and CEO of Outside Hub Inc. in Southfield, addresses targeted Internet marketing and advertising in a challenging economy....

PDA Q&A: Francois Castaing

DBusiness interviews the chairman of the Detroit Science Center.

By Paul A. Eisenstein

Robert Young, Bob Saget and Michael Young

While comedians like Bob Saget, center, hone their craft onstage, they’re often tapped for business advice backstage.

Rob Amsler

Though Detroit’s Bayview Yacht Club “is a little pea patch in the middle of the country,” Commodore Rob Amsler notes that it hosts the...

By R.J. King

Metro Detroit's Most Powerful Women in Business

More and more women are breaking through the glass ceiling in metro Detroit. In an effort to recognize their achievements, we asked readers to...

Made in Michigan: The Movie

When state legislatures upped the ante two years ago to provide the nations largest incentive package for film production, Hollywood and...

By R.J. King

Polyester Palace

One summer day in Troy in the early 1980s, a tall, thin man with a syrupy Southern drawl ambled into Kmart International Headquarters (KIH) at Big...

By Norm Sinclair

Golden Boy

When the kit finally arrived, Richard Golden couldn’t have been happier. At 12 years old, he was selling greeting cards door-to-door and doing a...

By R.J. King

All Together Now

With an ample supply of empty office space in metro Detroit, why would a nonprofit organization build a $17.5-million headquarters in Farmington...

To Heaven and Back

Early retirement sounded great when John Bornoty sold his Royal Oak-based technology company in 2005. But he soon found out the easy life was...

By Amelia Bell Carpenter

Quantum Leap

A driven executive, Bruce Burton got a lesson in opportunity watching his daughter swim laps at Cranbrook Kingswood in Bloomfield Hills. A mechanical engineer, inventor, and multi-patent holder,...

By R.J. King

Winds of Fortune

Over the past several months, everyone from media personalities to politicians has expounded on a long list of economic problems that have arguably...

By Joseph L. Welch

Power Bandits

In overgrown, trash-lined alleys all over Detroit — even in upscale West Bloomfield Township, and as far away as the Upper Peninsula — a...

By Norm Sinclair