A Sweet Deal
Inc.'s editor-in-chief takes a look at Mail Boxes Etc.'s alliance with UPS. Read story
George Gendron
Waste Not, Want Not
Interview with an entrepreneur who has built a quality company around a passion for operating without waste. Read story
Follow the Leaders
Inc.'s editor-in-chief revisits several CEOs featured in past articles to see how things are going. Read story
Nice Work, if You Can Get It
Editor praises Anita Roddick, founder of The Body Shop. Read story
What A Life
Editor's introduction to a new Inc. publication: The Inc. Life. Read story
Letter to the Editor
An interview with a woman company owner who has some interesting ideas about women and entrepreneurship. Read story
Thriving on Order
Interview with Steve Bostic, who has launched innumerable start-ups, in which he advocates intensive planning. Read story
A Gathering of Entrepreneurs
An interview with the CEO of Whittle Communications, who has kept his partnership thriving for years. Read story
The Art of Loving
The CEO of Scandanavian Airlines stresses strong communication within his organization. Read story
The Entrepreneur of the Decade
An interview with Steven Jobs, Inc.'s Entrepreneur of the Decade Read story
The Most Original-and Expensive-business Card In America
When I first came up with the idea for the card," says Chicago club owner Steve Schussler, "my partners thought I was crazy; the things cost 25? a piece. ... Read story
Some Of My Best Friends Are Women
I have nothing against members of the opposite sex. I live in domestic tranquillity with three of them, work with two dozen more, and pride myself on bei... Read story
Business And The Business Press
When I'm out on speaking engagements, I'm often asked why the general business press pays so little attention not just to women-owned companies, but to em... Read story
Friends Of Distinction
As I pointed out in this space last month, the CEOs of the INC. 500 don't necessarily represent the country's leading management practitioners, any more t... Read story
Who's Running America's Fastest-growing Companies
Most of you have probably seen them -- tests that claim to measure one's "entre-preneurial quotient." Invariably, they feature questions like: (1) A... Read story
The Inc. 100
This edition of the INC. 100 is our eighth such catalog of the country's fastest-growing small public companies. The first was published back in 1979 in ... Read story
Love Among The Ruins
Forgive the transition, but the subject of love brings to mind our March cover story, "Divorce." Having heard by now from just about every divorce lawyer ... Read story
Creators Of The New Economy
Given the popularity of the INC. 100, we were hardly surprised at the response three years ago when we published an indepth study of the founders of the c... Read story
A Passion For Restaurants
As INC. staff members will tell you, with a roll of their eyes, I have a certain obsession with, well, cars. A friend of mine shares this problem. This f... Read story
* For every budget that goes awry due to poor execution, thousands more lead to sleepless nights and cashless days because they were formulated on flawed ... Read story
Oops!
Never a magazine to be caught resting on its sexagenarian laurels, Business Week hit the streets not long ago emblazoned with the news that "Small Is Beau... Read story
The Spirit Of Independence
If the enemy of any respectable journalist is boredom and predictability, then the American economy over the past 10 years has been a business journalist'... Read story
Trading Places: Are America and Japan Locked in a Trade War?
Japanese and American entrepreneurs gather for a freewheeling discussion of the differences that divide them, and the ventures that may bring them together. Read story
A Little Game Of Hoops
For the seventh time, our May issue focuses on the fastest-growing public companies in America. While we cover many such companies during the course of t... Read story
Wet Paint
Navigating the corridors of a magazine that has grown as rapidly as INC. can be treacherous business. There is a bathroom today where you could have swor... Read story
Of Mice And Mettle
A stone's throw across the Charles River from our Boston offices lies Harvard University, home of the Harvard Business School, and a symbol of Establishme... Read story
Easy Listenin' On The Software Circuit
Over the years, we have gotten used to losing senior writer Robert Mamis to a variety of hardware -- airplanes, windsurfers, his 34-foot ocean racer, Fido... Read story
Running The Reality Principle
In this litigious society of ours, the rights of one constitutional entity almost inevitably bump up against the rights of another, with the resolution of... Read story
Number Crunching And Knowledge Curves
Each year, as summer fades to autumn, the cry goes up around our hallways to "Free the INC. 500!" All playfulness aside, the task of liberating the 500 gr... Read story
Election '84: Pursuing An Entrepreneurial Agenda
Are you better off now than you were four years ago? Don't smirk. The Trivial Pursuit phenomenon (see "Big Game," page 101) not withstanding, this must be... Read story
States Report: Turning The Tables
We were halfway through a breakfast interview in Baton Rouge, La., when Kevin Couhig the assistant secretary of industry and commerce for Louisiana, solem... Read story
Dateline: Tokyo
The Japanese have a phrase, haragei, to describe the form of nonverbal communication operative in companies in which a more traditional -- and hierarchica... Read story
Gary Hart: An Empty Vessel On A Rising Tide
In July, Democrats will gather in San Francisco to choose their nominee for the Presidency of the United States. Democratic conventions, points out INC. ... Read story
Rediscovering Enterprise
Five years ago this month, INC. published its first issue. The magazine was 112 pages in length, and weighed in at eight and a half ounces. Its contents i... Read story
United They Stand
Maybe it can be attributed simply to more efficient record-keeping, but it seems that discord among business intimates these days is increasing even faste... Read story
Nothing But "people"
Editing a magazine is a bit like managing a venture capital portfolio There are certain skills that are required, to be sure, but neither is an enterprise... Read story
Upstairs, Downstairs At The Inc. 500
Jerry Gorde, president of Virginia Textiles Inc., is not exactly what you would call your typical entrepreneur. Take his two offices, for example. O... Read story
"face To Face" With Adam Osbourne
If Osbourne Computer Corp. had a dollar for every time its founder has been characterized as "egotistical," "abrasive,' "stubborn," "opinionated," or "arr... Read story
Of Stings And States
IBM Corp., as we all know, is a company that does a lot of things very well. One of the things that IBM does particularly well is keeping outsiders guessi... Read story
The Art Of Entrepreneurship
One Saturday several years ago, I spent a morning with my three-year-old daughter exploring tidal flats and tide pools along the coast of Massachusetts so... Read story
