One Of A Kind
Eli Goldratt has everybody -- from Big Eight accounting firms to Junior Achievement students -- marketing his manufacturing scheduling system. Read story
Craig R. Waters
The No-tech Solution
Industrial America's graveyard is filled with companies just like Intermatic. But then, they didn't have Jim Miller. Read story
New! Improved! Manufacturing
Suddenly, the shop floor is where the action is. Read story
Quality Begins At Home
Zero defects? Acceptable quality levels? If only the gurus of quality control knew what it really takes to turn around a manufacturing operation. Read story
Slim Pickings
INC. 100 veteran Harold Katz and his franchisees thought they had a formula for perpetual growth. Then their customers cut them down to size. Read story
Profit And Loss
Xaloy's new manufacturing system resorted the company's competitive edge -- and turned the shop floor into a battleground. Read story
Born-again Steel
David Houck worked for Big Steel all his life -- until the mill shut down. . . Read story
Fleshing Out An Empire
Can the mastermind of Browning-Ferris do for fitness what he did for waste management? Read story
Franchise Capital Of America
In Rocky Mount, N.C., fast food is big business. But the Boddie brothers' 208-outlet empire hasn't lost the founders' touch. Read story
On Second Thought
We throw away all sorts of things -- automobiles, washing machines, air conditioners. The apostles of remanufacturing believe we can pick up the pieces and p... Read story
Putting The Customer In The Driver's Seat
Rob Mancuso's approach to running his dealership is so successful that he has begun to package parts of it for sale. Even competitors are lining up to buy. Read story
When Uncle Sam Sneezes
A business that depends on the whims of Washington better hope the government doesn't change its mind too often Read story
Silicon Steppe
The prevailing winds of technological change may blow from West to East, but a growing number of U.S. companies are riding the countercurrents, turning co... Read story
Memories Of De Lorean
It has been nearly a year since the British government closed the De Lorean Motor Co. plant in Dunmurry, Northern Ireland, losing 2,600 jobs in the bargai... Read story
The Leveraged Buyout Boom
It was too perfect a symbol, too convenient a metaphor to slip into the first paragraph of a story about leveraged buyouts, but there it was, sitting on t... Read story
An Apple A Day
George A. Kuhnreich, director of corporate planning for Tandy Corp., sits in his spacious office atop one of the twin Tandy Towers in downtown Fort Worth,... Read story
Break Out The Cigars
A baby is only a baby -- to paraphrase Rudyard Kipling -- but a good cigar is a smoke. These days moreover, a good cigar company can be a gold mine, if on... Read story
Breathing Easy
For six months, teams of specialists had been scouring a new, three-story office building in Connecticut for the source of mysterious vapors that had plag... Read story
Battered But Bettered
A little over a year ago, INC. reported on the battering of Colin Barton before the MIT Futerprise Forum ("Companies on the Spot," February 1982, page 39)... Read story
'recruit, Intervies, Hire, Train. Recruit, Interview, Hire, Train.'
Say that fast 600 times, and you'll have some idea of what it's like to handle explosive employee growth. Read story
John De Lorean And The Icarus Factor
Endowed with a reputation for genius by an adoring press and public, John De Lorean came close to pulling off an entrepreneurial miracle. But this ego, like ... Read story
Going Private
Last year a record 90 companies were bought out of corporate empires. When Walter Lovejoy cut loose from Beatrice Foods with his little mold-making company t... Read story
Just When You Thought It Was Safe To Go Back In The Office
Companies that have gone electronic discover a host of environmental problems. You may be sitting on one, reading under another, and have your feet up on a t... Read story
Raiders Of The Lost Arp
Once the leading producer of musical synthesizers, Arp Instruments fell victim to managerial incompetence, infighting, and miscalculation. Read story
The Race For Olympic Profits
For some small companies, the '84 summer games in Los Angeles have already begun. Read story
The Secret Life Of Young Presidents
Through the doors of a very exclusive organization pass a group of individuals with a special understanding of each other's business problems. Read story
Talk Is Cheap
Communication is a substantial but rarely considered cost of doing business; electronic mail is changing all that. Read story
The Private War Of James Sullivan
More than 1,800 product liability lawsuits have transformed Pacor Inc. into a legal battlefield. Read story
There's A Robot In Your Future
Increasingly, robots are turning up in smaller companies -- and so far there are few complaints. Read story
The Fifty-million-dollar Diet
For the past 10 years Harold Katz has helped people shed unwanted fat. All those losses add up to healthy profits for Nutri/System. Read story
Trial By Jury
Critique groups aren't for the faint-hearted, but for appliance dealer Joe Rizzo and others, they're invaluable aids to running a company. Read story
The Gospel According To Fatjo
"There's nothing wrong with a desire to make a huge amount of money, but it's the mission that's all consuming." Read story
The Selling Of The Law
Len Jacoby and Steve Meyers set off a small revolution in legal circles by using mass marketing techniques to sell their services to the man in the street. Read story
Companies On The Spot
The MIT Enterprise Forum poses painful questions to the managers of new or troubled companies. Read story
