...billion more in deal value than they lost to out-of-state firms, according to data analyzed by Tom Smith, senior research director for the Minneapolis-based business newspaper. The research also shows Minnesota will have 15 companies with...

...who are willing to give up freedom to get back some sense of personal security," said Elaine Christiansen, senior research director for The Gallup Organization. The telephone survey, conducted in March, included 934 people across the country...

...would be in the long-term best interests of Honda, its dealers and its customers, said Chris Denove, senior research director of retail practices for J.D. Power and Associates, a global marketing research firm in Agoura Hills, Calif...

...after the tech tumble hammered many portfolios, investors "experienced statement shock," said Don Cassidy, senior research director at Lipper. "They did ratchet down the risk level of their portfolios. About 70 percent of the money that flowed...

...end of 1999, investors thought they were geniuses, and so they were buying no-loads," said Don Cassidy, senior research director at Lipper Inc., a provider of fund data. Now, he added, "People have been going back to buying funds with...