Louise Lee is a correspondent in the BusinessWeek San Mateo (Calif.) bureau. She is responsible for covering nontechnology companies in the Bay area. Prior to BusinessWeek, Lee wrote for The Asian Wall Street Journal, where she spearheaded a bi-monthly column devoted to Asian marketing topics. She also spent four years in the Journal’s Dallas bureau, covering such major retailers as Wal-Mart Stores and J.C. Penney. Before the Journal, she worked as a business reporter at The Oakland Tribune and The Peninsula Times Tribune in Palo Alto, Calif. Lee has degrees from both Princeton University and Stanford University.