There's No Harm in Asking
Requiring rapid payment from customers to finance orders when bank credit is tight. Read story
Bruce G. Posner
Protecting Your Personal Assets
Insulating personal assets in the event of insolvency. Read story
Where Small Companies Go for Credit
Chart depicting where most small companies go for credit. Read story
Finding a New Bank
Tips on finding a bank that can meet your needs. Read story
Stalking Seed Capital
Resources providing information on the seed-capital industry. Read story
Bartering Instead of Buying
Bartering for goods to conserve cash. Read story
Secondary Stock Deals
A venture capitalist invests in secondary deals. Read story
Borrowing Without a Bank
Borrowing capital from family, friends, employees. Read story
Getting to Prime
Interview with management consultant Ichak Adizes on growing a company to attain peak corporate performance. Read story
Hard Times
Interview with an employee benefits and compensation consultant on motivating employees in lean times. Read story
Lien and Mean
The new rules of commercial lending in a credit-tight market. Read story
Squeeze Play
Ideas from CEOs on cost-cutting programs. Read story
Putting Customers to Work
Why customers may be your star employees. Read story
Class Pictures
A new business helps high school students produce video yearbooks. Read story
The Joy of Leasing
Company saves time and money by leasing its employees. Read story
Raising the Stakes
Bruegger's Bagels gives its cluster managers more autonomy and a percentage of profits. Read story
Role Changes
Company offers its employees the privilege of moving to a new job when they are bored with the one they have. Read story
Out of the Doghouse
Makers of pre-fab domed roofs for houses are convinced that they can sell miniaturized models as dog houses. Read story
Owner's Rights
CEO finds a non-equity solution to ESOPs. Read story
Growth Strategies: Prime Time
How a freight-haul company set out to compete with competitors by providing precise delivery times. Read story
Holding Your Own
What to do when your company outgrows the managers who have been with you from the start. Read story
No Sale
Afraid that their bank`s lending focus might change, customers convince the institution not to merge. Read story
Taming the Labor Shortage
Telephone research company uses college students to fill its low-skill, entry-level positions. Read story
Exporting Services
A business-seminar company talks about the surprising ease with which they were able to export their services. Read story
Death, Taxes, and. . . Meetings
Company manager uses meetings as a central forum for discussing new ideas. Read story
The Phantom Customer
New Pig Corp. has developed an oil-absorbing, membrane-like fence that helps to clean oil spills. Read story
Executive Compensation 1989
How CEOs evaluate, review, and reward their key managers and employees. Read story
Setting Standards
NutriClean tests for pesticides in supermarket produce. Read story
Inside Out
Company president finds that hiring outside contractors is a good alternative to bringing in new full-time employees. Read story
Divided We Fall
Hearing Technologies Inc. adds a team approach to its organizational structure. Read story
Growing Your Own
What to do when you can't afford to hire experienced people. Read story
Seeing Red
Animalens Inc. makes and markets red-tinted contact lenses for egg-laying chickens. Read story
If at First You Don't Succeed
Company adjusts its bonus system to accomodate changing times. Read story
Management Moms
Two women start a management temp agency for women who want to balance work and family. Read story
Hiring The Best
Some screening techniques that will help to eliminate mistakes when making hiring decisions. Read story
On The House
Start-up offers reverse mortgage loans for an indefinite period to elderly home owners. Read story
The Thinking Man's Bomb Detector
New technology, which started as pollution control effort, could detect explosives invisible to metal detectors. Read story
Preventive Medicine
Company meets with a council of employees to get their input on cutting health insurance costs. Read story
The Part-Time CEO
Profile of a dentist and his challenges in starting a dental supply company Read story
The Best Little Handbook in Texas
How to make your company's employee handbook one of your most important tools. Read story
