America's Fastest-growing Private Companies
By now, you are familiar with the backbone metaphor. As in: "Small businesses are the backbone of our economy. We must do everything we can'¦to make sure... Read story
Curtis Hartman
The Entrepreneur in My Bed
A veteran business writer confronts the metamorphic power of company building as his wife starts her own career- and leadership-development business. Read story
What Ever Happened to the Class of 1983?
Profile of Inc. 500 companies from 1983. Read story
Managing the Journey
Interview with CEO Ralph Stayer on the eight-year process of revamping his management style. Read story
The Best-managed Franchises in America
A profile of Gary Grace, whose 20 hair salons are the top performers in the Supercuts franchise chain. Read story
Nice Guys Finish First
Profiles of the four runners-up for "Best-managed Franchises in America." Read story
Business School
A few innovative teachers are teaching entreprenuership to their students, sometimes as early as the elementary level. Read story
Keeper Of The Flame
A CEO discovers the difference between 'best-made' and 'best-selling' and learns to listen to the market. Read story
Cowboy Capitalist
Profile of entrepreneur Ross Perot, how he created EDS, and why he would create a start-up which is threatened by EDS. Read story
Cookin' With Gas
Profile of America's fastest growing company for 1988: American Central Gas Cos. Read story
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About PR...
Advice on PR strategy with regard to the market, not the media. Read story
Redesigning America
On the road with the man who's helping businesses profit from our aging population, and building a company of his own in the process Read story
New Brew;
TO WALK THROUGH THE IRISH TEAK doors into Sieben's River North brewery on a Friday night is to think that lightning has struck. It is still shakedown tim... Read story
Behind The Scenes;
I am always astonished at the ways some company owners squander their money. I'm not talking here about Donald Trump-type megalomaniacs, but about otherwi... Read story
All The Right Moves
John Koss did it all: hired a professional manager, moved production offshore, diversified his product line -- then watched his company and his personal fort... Read story
The Inc. 500 Honor Roll
In which we recognize six companies that have grown so fast for so long that they have won a place on the INC. 500 for the fifth consecutive year Read story
Photo Opportunity
How Steve Bostic stitched together 10 regional film processors into a $78-million national powerhouse Read story
A Rose Blooms In Houston
As a housewife, she was shy, miserable, bullied. As a widow, Rosemary Garbett has breathed life into her late husband's restaurant chain and taken the Housto... Read story
Why Daughters Are Better
When it comes to training for the job, winning the respect of employees and customers, and easing the pains of succession, 'daddy's little girl' is probably ... Read story
"testbusters": Liquid Assets For Sale
Meet Jeffrey Nightbyrd, a marketing maven for our time. Some executives may see drug testing in the workplace as a thorny management issue (see Executive... Read story
Fear Of Franchising
How Carol Brothers seduced the press, the industry, and scores of franchisees with the false promise of 'the next McDonald's' Read story
How To Grow A Business Book
While literary agents, publishers, and would-be authors were lamenting the demise of the recent business-book boom, Paul Hawken was signing a contract for... Read story
Is It Easier Than Ever To Start A Business?
It may look easier, what with all the advice and money and services available. But it may be harder than ever to succeed. Read story
Who Ya Gonna Call? Gaff Busters!
It wasn't that chairman Ernest Marks thought his employees were boors. They didn't suck their fingers after meals, at least not in public. They knew bet... Read story
The Inc. 500 Honor Roll
You could write the book on business growth from the strategies of the companies that have made the INC. 500 five years running. Read story
A Night At The Movies
At a time when most theater owners can't pry people away from their VCRs, Charlie Chick has got them driving 40 minutes for the flicks. Read story
Taking The "family" Out Of Family Business
As a new generation takes the reins of America's family businesses, they're bringing new values, new techniques, and new goals to the organizations they neve... Read story
How To Hire A Cfo
Sooner or later every company needs one. Then it needs a replacement. Read story
The New Ellis Islands
LOS ANGELES: Los Angeles has always been a city of transplants, but now it has become a city of immigrants. You can see them at the border check-point, M... Read story
Main Street, Inc.
Forget rebel, forget misfit, forget poor boy makes good. A new study shatters old myths about the entrepreneur. Read story
On The Road: Johnson County, Iowa;
When Dale Burr shot his wife, his banker, and himself, he became a national symbol of the farm crisis. Some of his neighbors see it differently. Read story
The Great Texas Water War
Rick Scoville started out to "kick Perrier in the derrier," but he forgot to cover his own. Read story
Requiem For An Entrepreneur
Allan Gallant was building one of the most successful businesses in Alaska's history -- until his employees turned on him. Read story
Unbridled Growth
For five years, Herbalife International's health and diet pitch has made it one of the fastest-growing companies in American history. Now a series of investi... Read story
The Spirit Of Independence;
"We have lived through the age of big industry and the age of the giant corporation. But I believe that this is the age of the entrepreneur." -- Ronald Reagan Read story
The Spirit Of Independence; Workers
"In general it is impossible that manufactures should succeed in America from the high price of labour." -- Thomas Jefferson Read story
The Spirit Of Independence; Connections
"If anyone who hits the moon feels there hasn't been a lot of luck involved, in my opinion, they're either naive or lying." -- Jack Eckerd Read story
The Spirit Of Independence; The Valley
"The man with a new idea is a crank -- until the idea succeeds." -- Mark Twain Read story
The Spirit Of Independence; On The Frontiers
"In the long run men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high." -- Henry David Thoreau Read story
Selling Out
National Content Liquidators makes its profits when other companies have lost theirs. Read story
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