Fathers and Sons
Personal accounts from fathers and their sons on what it's like to run a family business together. Read story
Ellen Wojahn
Share the Wealth, Spoil the Child
Children of successful entrepreneurs discuss the advantages and disadvantages of growing up wealthy. Read story
Bringing Up Baby
Summary of the myths, realities and benefits of daycare in the workplace. Read story
Goernment Taketh;
CAN A LOCAL GOVERNMENT USE its eminent domain power to crush a business deal and keep jobs from leaving town? For better than 30 years, eminent doma... Read story
Why There Aren't More Women In This Magazine
Maybe it's because women are creating a business world all their own. Read story
Little Big Man
When Pizza King Jeno Paulucci sets out to do "good works," it can be hard to tell philanthropy from business. Read story
The Forces Of Conformity
CEO Jerry Ellis see his job as doing daily battle against the thousands of things that push his company to be just like all the rest. Read story
Class Acts
Company owners are seeing to it that entrepreneurship is taught by the folks who practice it. Read story
Will The Company Please Come To Order
Who's in charge at Marquette Electronics? (Hint: It only looks like it's the employees.) Read story
Divorce;
TO PLAN FOR IT MAY RUIN YOUR MARRIAGE NOT TO PLAN FOR IT MAY DESTROY YOUR COMPANY Read story
Stop The Presses
Arandell-Schmidt, once known as a calendar printer, totally repositioned itself to go after the catalog market. Read story
Sonic Air's Boom Goes Bust
A three-time INC. 500 company spends a tough year coping with the aftermath of a bungled acquisition. Read story
Going Against The Grain
J. Edgar Broyhill II's mail-order business is the bane of retail furniture stores. Read story
The Price Is Right
Mallards targets a specific shopper: "the guy most retailers screen out." Read story
Paper Planes
Flight Transportation Corp. was one of the hottest aviation stocks around, but -- when the federal investigators moved in -- they found a company that existe... Read story
The Inside Track
United Tote wins big by catering to the betting needs of small tracks. Read story
Collectibles
Shidoni offers one-stop shopping to corporate, municipal, and institutional art seekers. Read story
Rolling Stock
Actmedia has succeeded in the shopping cart ad business by having 5,000 part-time workers. Read story
Growing With Style
At Visible Changes, beauty parlors have become a fast-growth business. Read story
New Faces Of 1985
FILMTEC (14) If it seems odd to find one of the world's leading companies in the desalination industry located in Edina, Minn. -- half a continent i... Read story
Homegrown
Peavey Electronics does it all -- better and cheaper -- in Meridian, Miss. Read story
Closed For Business
A Dallas-based retailer thrives by closing its stores seven months a year. Read story
Reading, Writing, And Revenues
The current crop of student entrepreneurs are determined not to let school get in the way of their education. Read story
The Take At The Top
How growing companies manage the care and feeding of their key executives Read story
How To Cut $5,000 Off The Cost Of Each Employee
Through employee-assistance programs, companies provide professional counseling that helps workers resolve their personal problems voluntarily. There's a pay... Read story
In Search Of The Retentive Incentive
What is that combination of money and recognition that makes good employees want to stay? Read story
Thomas F. Carter Of Carter Electronics: Calling For Competition
The moon rises over Gun Barrel City, Tex., stretching the shadow of the 300-foot radio tower that passes for a skyline in this town of 2,100. In a ranch h... Read story
Beyond The Fringes
How smaller companies are profiting from flexible-benefits plans. Read story
A Raise In Every Paycheck
Michael Dunaway found that a pay hike every two weeks motivated his workers more than the standard annual raise. Read story
Recruit Your Problems Away
Got a problem employee? Need a way to get rid of him that is smooth, fast, cheap, and virtually pain free? Here is an idea: Call up your executive headhun... Read story
Stepping Aside
Sometimes the best management decision you can make is to bring in a new manager. Read story
Industries In Transition
With the public increasingly clamoring for medical-costs cuts, the best prescription for continued fiscal growth is low-tech, low-ticket products. Read story
"gainfully" Employed
A home-grown gain-sharing plan at Fort Wayne, Ind., foundry has all employees pulling more weight Read story
Industries In Transition
The divesture of AT T has created a maze for manufacturer and customer alike -- and new market opportunities for those who can see them. Read story
A New Wrinkle In Retirement Policies
Encouraging employees to stay on the payroll beyond the age of retirement makes good business sense. Read story
Management By Walking Away
At Quad/Graphics, the employees run the show. Read story
A Touch Of Class
There were cheaper, easier ways to get the message across. They could have sent out a memo, headlining it "Company to Increase Commitment to Employee Educ... Read story
How To Value Your Employee
Developing a formal compensation plan won't necessarily solve your personnel problems, but it will put your company on the right track. Read story
Getting The Most Out Of An Esop
It takes more than a piece of the rock to motivate employees. They want to feel they have a piece of the action, too. Read story
