June, Q & A

Q&A - Eric Spangenberg

Eric Spangenberg is dean of the College of Business at Washington State University, where he holds the Geoff and Florence Maughmer Freedom Philosophy Endowed Chair. He has a bachelor’s degree in business administration from...

June

Out on the Town

ART

Bellevue Art Museum

Jun 7-Aug 19 Offering Reconciliation: The exhibition features 135 ceramic bowls created by Israeli and Palestinian painters, sculptors and photographers. Each bowl represents the longing for an end to...

June, Bookend

Bookend

FOR YOUR DESK

Doing Business in China: How to Profit in the World’s Fastest Growing Market

By Ted Plafker

(Warner, $24.99)

As Earth’s most populous nation, housing fully one-fifth of all humans alive today, China...

June, Wine

Wine

MUSIC ON AND OFF THE VINE

As children of the 1960s, Dean and Verdie Morrison are countercultural by nature. But with their Morrison Lane Winery in Walla Walla, they have extended their challenge-thestatus- quo attitudes to...

June, Life & Style

Playing's the Thing

I'm sitting at lunch at Pasta Piatti in Ashland, Ore., with Lewis the Dauphin, son of the King of France. He's eating a terrificlooking sandwich on foccacia bread and talking about some of his favorite haunts in town. Lewis...

June, Life & Style

Rivers in the Sky

Heli-fishing British Columbia?s Sunshine Coast

June, Technology

Full Stream Ahead

RealNetworks rebounds by embracing new markets

June, Made in Washington

Building Blocks

An inventor uses grit and ingenuity to build a legacy

June, Snapshots

Cleanup Crew

HALOSOURCE INC.

Location: Bothell

Website: www.halosource.com

Founded: 2002 (as a merger between Vanson Co. and HaloSource, a previous incarnation of the company)

Key Innovation: HaloSource's principal products are used to...

June, Entrepreneurs, Agriculture

Old Vines and Deep Roots

Leonetti Cellar and Woodward Canyon wineries have set the bar for Walla Walla wine

June, Features, Women in Business

Taking it to the Bank

Women Find a Friendly Environment in Banking

Features, Healthcare, June

The 21st Century Gold Rush

Will Washington?s new fund help build a better biotechnology industry?

June, Environment, Features

The Trouble With Rain

In a watery climate, protecting Puget Sound from runoff is a costly proposition

June, Sports Biz

Betting on the Farm Team

The minor leagues draw in major investors

June, CEO Adviser

Lessons Learned

An online media company perseveres through good times and bad

June, Vital Signs

The Information Technology Sector Rises Again

Washington state’s information sector has finally recovered from the collapse of the high-tech bubble in 2001. That, at least, is what the last quarter’s employment numbers suggest. The state’s information...

June, Outspoken

Heavy Lifting

An unassuming new Port of Seattle chief packs a lot of influence

June, Forum

Dancing with the Dragon

Doing business in China can be rewarding, if we step carefully

June, OutFront

WaMu to Help Subprime Borrowers

Washington Mutual Inc. announced April 18 that it would start a $2 billion program aimed to help subprime borrowers avoid foreclosure on their mortgages. The Wall Street Journal reported the day before that WaMu made the highest...

June, OutFront

Microsoft Expands Footprint in Bellevue

Microsoft plans to lease 1.3 million square feet of office space in Bellevue in two buildings that are currently under construction. The company will take a little more than 600,000 square feet in the Advanta office commons in...

June, OutFront

Executive Appointments

• Starbucks Corp. has hired Peter Bocian, former chief financial officer of NCR Corp., as its CFO.

• David A. Chaput has been named CFO of Spokane based Idaho General Mines Inc.

• K.M. Das has joined the...

June, OutFront

Seattle to Keep Two Newspapers

Seattle will remain a two-newspaper town for several more years, after the Seattle Times and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer agreed to settle all their outstanding litigation and go along as they were before.

The larger Times has...

June, OutFront

BRIEFcase

COFFEE - Starbucks has opened its first retail location behind the former Iron Curtain. Starbucks is operating the shop in Bucharest, Romania, in a joint venture partnership with Greece-based Marinopoulos Holding. Starbucks...

June, OutFront

A Matter of Trust

Memo to business managers: The time you invest in gaining and keeping the trust of your employees is just as important as the time you spend monitoring the bottom line. In fact, trust affects the bottom line because it...

June, OutFront

CEO Pay on the Rise

CEO pay increased 8.9 percent from 2005 to 2006, according to a study by Mercer Human Resource Consulting. Mercer surveyed 350 companies to figure a median CEO compensation of $8.2 million, including a base salary of $995,000,...

June, OutFront

The Business of Giving Back

Overlooked in the controversy surrounding the future of the Sonics and their star forward Rashard Lewis are the contributions they make, corporately and individually, to youth organizations and charitable causes in the Puget...

June

From the Publisher

A critical piece of our mission at Washington CEO is to provide high-quality business news and information and to deliver it through as many channels as our customers demand.

We see ourselves not just as a magazine, but as a...

Cover, Marketing, Media, Technology, May, June

Microsoft to buy Seattle’s aQuantive

In a bid to challenge Google for a bigger share of online advertising, Microsoft has agreed to pay $6 billion for a global ad agency that almost collapsed during the dot-com bust