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A plant nursery learned how to use up-to-date technology to make itself indispensable to its customers. Read story
Donna Fenn
Best Career Advancement: Bottoms Up
How some companies boost their employees' careers by growing them in the jobs they already have. Read story
Kid Stuff
How to create affordable alternatives to on-site day care Read story
The Mentor System
Like so many company owners, Jim Poure knew that his greatest challenge was to find experienced managers for General Alum -- so he developed a plan to grow h... Read story
Office Technology;
The electronic spread-sheet is nearly ubiquitous in today's workplace. But the next time you find your chief financial officer hunched over his personal ... Read story
Security;
You won't have to look your employees in the eye anymore if you install one of the newer, and more exotic, security and time-checking gizmos on the market... Read story
The Family Plan
The owner of Capsco Sales hopes her kids will take over the company in a couple of years. If they don't, it won't be for lack of planning. Read story
Managing People;
You've heard about blue-collar crime, white-collar crime, and computer crime. Robert Half International, the recruiting firm, has found another form of wo... Read story
Libel;
A RECENT SUPREME COURT libel decision could mean trouble for loose-lipped managers. It all started when Dun & Bradstreet issued a credit report,... Read story
Flexible Hiring;
There's nothing temporary about a $6-billion industry that's growing about 20% a year and supplying 700,000 Americans with jobs every day -- temporary job... Read story
Keeping Fit
While most businesses are trying to control health insurance costs, some companies are spending more on employee health programs than ever before. Read story
Health Costs;
The relentless rise in health care costs is finally producing its own antidote. So serious is the problem -- medical benefits continue to soar 20% o... Read story
Private Lives;
For Ken Shader, turning a hobby into a business was more than a fantasy. Read story
The Lord Of Discipline
No one will ever accuse Don Oberg of being soft. His employees work 50 hours a week and get all of 15 minutes for lunch. Yet last year, some 1,600 job applic... Read story
Starting Over
Allen-Edmonds, once a family-owned money loser, is back in the black. Read story
High And Dry
Imports have not stopped Peerless Umbrella Co. In fact, it's growing faster than ever. Read story
Hot Type
Scarlett Letters markets to one group of art directors -- the young go-getters. Read story
Growing By Design
To succeed, Salaminder had to temper its spontaneity with sound business planning. Read story
Employee Ownership
Employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs) serve a variety of purposes, from providing owners with liquidity to rewarding and retaining valued employees to de... Read story
Mothers Of Invention
Behind every hard-driving entrepreneur stands a hard-driving mom. Read story
New Faces Of 1985
PAGE AMERICA GROUP (55) Although the formal name of the new venture was Radio Page-America, the grease-stained T-shirt David Post ceremonially prese... Read story
A Better Mousetrap
"If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he builds his house in the woods the world wi... Read story
Lending;
Three years ago, interest rates nearly forced Naval Mehra, president of a $3-million restaurant management company in Potomac, Md., out of business. But ... Read story
Family Fare
It was all that Elvin Feltner needed to hear. Walt Disney Pictures was beginning to expand beyond the G rating of family films and into the spicier PG an... Read story
The Kids Are All Right
An Indiana plastics company opened a day-care center -- and solved more than its personnel problems. Read story
Fortune Cookie Say: You Will Find Gold
"You will have pieces of gold by the bushel," said the fortune cookie that realtor Bart Conn broke open at a Chinese restaurant. With the fortune in his ... Read story
Private Lives;
Demon dialers, Dungeons Dragons, and the great $5 disposable suit. Read story
Backpacks For Tubas
Donna Altieri was "spending one of those wonderful nights drinking with musicians" when a friend complained about the amount of time he had to spend arran... Read story
High Technology
Now Timothy Leary wants us to turn on our computers. Leary, the former drug guru, is attempting to establish himself as a software impresario of sorts, o... Read story
Innocents Abroad
If lucrative business opportunities beckon to you from some place like Abu Dhabi, there is a wide range of services and publications to help you avoid com... Read story
Made To Order Mansions
If you have a spare million and need a place to hang your polo mallet, Steve Chefan, president of Stevenson Building & Design Inc., is ready to set yo... Read story
The Latest Boardroom Darwinism
Finding fresh management insights in The Origin of the Species . Read story
The Kid Behind a $170 Million Website
Aaron Patzer started Mint.com because he was frustrated with Intuit's Quicken. Two years later, Intuit intends to cut him a very big check. Read story
