Driven ByPrinciples of InnovationThe goal of the Chicago Innovation Awards is to recognize, educate and inspire.Michael Arndt
Michael Arndt is a senior correspondent in BusinessWeek's Chicago bureau. Since joining BusinessWeek 8 years ago, Arndt has covered virtually every business beat, from pharmaceuticals and health care to manufacturing, from airlines to retail and fast food. Arndt also edited various sections of the magazine and was editor of BW Chicago, a BusinessWeek monthly, until mid-2008.
Before joining BusinessWeek at the start of 2000, Arndt was a business editor at the Chicago Tribune from 5 years, overseeing a staff of up to two dozen reporters and directly responsible for the paper's Sunday Business section. He was chief economics correspondent for the Tribune in its Washington, DC, bureau from 1990 to 1995. Arndt became a business reporter in 1987, after seven years as a metro reporter in the city and suburbs. During his career at the Tribune, he reported from Russia, Mexico, Canada and Japan. His first job in Chicago was at the now-defunct City News Bureau. A graduate of the University of Wisconsin in Madison, Arndt now lives in Lincoln Park.