Contents
Minnesota Business Magazine Volume 20 Number 2
DEPARTMENTS
8 INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
The latest patents, and patent advice
from Mark Kroll
18 FAMILY BUSINESS
Stanley S. Hubbard // Jim Pohlad //
Worrell // 2009 Minnesota Family
Business Awards Finalists // Tom
Hubler
10 COMMUNICATIONS
Pat Fallon // Lee Ehmke // Barrie
D’Rozario Murphy // Monica Little
// OLSON // Pocket Herucles //
Clockwork Active Media Systems //
Periscope // J. Marie Fieger
22 LEADERSHIP
Marilyn Carlson Nelson // John
Christensen // Jill Blashack Strahan //
Bill Kuban // Ben Graves // Randy
McPherson // Mike Veeck // Scott
Augustine // Rebecca Thomley // Gary
Holmes // Dale Bachman // Paul Walser
// Bill Bojan // voice from the ethics
debate // Ryan Burnet // Anita Patel //
Joseph Nayquonabe Jr. // Vik Uppal
// Amanda Brinkman // Andy Brehm
// Jeff Prouty // Women Presidents’
Organization // Bill George
32 MONEY
Wheelock Whitney // Craig Leipold
// Carl Pohland // Glen Taylor // Irwin
Jacobs // Bill McGuigan // Danita
Bye // Roy Smalley // Fafinski Mark
and Johnson // Ponzi Schemes // Dan
Arrigoni // Michael Gorman
IN EVERY ISSUE
4 EDITOR’S NOTE
6 UPFRONT
46 EXECUTIVE LIFE
48 BACKTALK
40 TECHNOLOGY
Earl Bakken // Med-tech insiders //
International Medica Foundation //
Martell Biosystems // Orasi Medical //
Dan Juhl //Dynamic Structural Steel //
Anthony Williamson
ON THE COVER
Anthony Williamson, Amanda
Brinkman, Stanley S. Hubbard,
Monica Little, Bob Barrie, David
Murphy, Stuart D’Rozario, Pat Fallon,
Dan Arrigoni, Wheelock Whitney
Photos by Tate Carlson,
Marshall Franklin Long
and courtesy of Fallon