Jeff Bailey


Obituary: Hollywood's Book Guy Michael A. Viner

Love him or hate him, Michael Viner brought Hollywood to the audio book business  Read story

How I Did It: Serial Entrepreneur Richard Heckmann

Buy fearlessly, sell ruthlessly, repeat regularly. How Richard Heckmann takes struggling companies and sells them for billions  Read story

Obituary: Lettuce Magnate John Tanimura, 1920-2009

Remembering John Tanimura, founder of Tanimura & Antle, the nation's biggest lettuce grower  Read story

Obituary: Larry H. Miller

Larry H. Miller, owner of the Utah Jazz, was driven  Read story

Legacy: A Man of Parts

Andrew McKelvey, 1934-2008  Read story

Legacy: Hyman Golden, 1923-2008

The Snapple story you don't know.  Read story

The Education of an Educated CEO

When Jeff Koeze took over his father's company, he knew almost nothing about it or any other business. But he knew how to learn, and 12 years later, he runs ...  Read story

Legacy: R.F. Taplett, 1921-2008

A man who believed in making things happen -- now.  Read story

The Exporting Advantage

For Hibco Plastics, going after new markets in Mexico did more than boost sales—it transformed the entire company.  Read story

A New Kind of Middleman

For components broker Terry Noone, low prices are no longer enough. Today, it's all about service.  Read story

Big Firms Can Share Some Helpful Wisdom

If you're like most entrepreneurs, at your company you're the chief executive officer, top salesman, finance boss, personnel director -- and you make the ...  Read story

Firms with Few Options Turn to Recapitalization

It's harder to raise capital now for smaller companies, with investors insisting on a bigger stake in your business and willing to pay you less for it. Ma...  Read story

Buying a Small Company Requires Some Patience

My recent column about the travails of Bob and Sandy McNary trying to sell their little I...  Read story

Entrepreneurship: Can the Touch be Taught?

Can you teach someone to be an entrepreneur? With more than 1,500 U.S. colleges offering some sort of entrepreneurship classes -- by the Ewing Mari...  Read story

Selling Your Business: A One-Shot Challenge

Bob McNary isn't afraid of a challenge. He fell off his boat, stark naked, 21/2 miles from shore in northern Lake Michigan 20 years ago. In waters that ca...  Read story

Change Marketing Plans To Survive the Squeeze

Sales and marketing is more art than science, and it's a particularly difficult art in this tough economy. For most of the 1990s, many products and...  Read story

The Long-Term Perils of Being a Control Freak

From The Wall Street Journal Online Perfectionist. Can't delegate. Compu...  Read story