Ronald Ahrens

Before the stroke of 9 p.m., a few shoppers milled beneath Kern’s clock, the timepiece that served as a central meeting point in mid-century Detroit. Atop the long ledge above the department store’s display...

Trustee Martin Cooper was sitting on the stage during last spring’s commencement exercise at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago when he heard a ring from inside his academic gown and felt a...

KitelyTech’s top executives survived a plane crash in the Michigan wilderness in 2022. Since then, much reflection has given the boutique software-design firm in Waterford Township a 30,000-foot view.

As a 19-year-old, Chuck Jordan received encouragement from his mother to enter a design contest sponsored by the Fisher Body Division of General Motors. Jordan spent 700 hours on his 1/12-scale dream car, which featured...

In his spare time, Christopher Stefani teaches Irish stepdance. At work as Lawrence Technological University’s chief of staff in Southfield, he’s more of a juggler. It’s lists and more lists as Stefani pursues LTU’s...

Aaron Siepierski pulls his truck over to do a Zoom call and explains he’s spent “many, many nights studying and researching” how to make Aaron’s Estate Sales in Birmingham more successful. The first book he...

With a palate developed through fine-dining experiences in Miami and New York, and finding himself somewhat flush after a few short years in the solar energy brokerage business in the Big Apple, Jeremy Sasson...

After starting her career in commercial real estate, Michelle Rafalski joined Gleba & Associates, the financial planning firm her mother, Jill Gleba, founded in 1985. “I would call it very tedious,” she says of...

One day in March, Giuseppe Lucido was busy with preparations for UWM Live! — United Wholesale Mortgage’s huge convocation of brokers. For the third annual edition of this event on May 15-16, United Wholesale...

As an investment banker, Nick DeCroo is exactly where he wants to be. It just took a while for him to get there. His first job was in 2011, at PNC Bank in Troy. “It...