The Money Game
Profile of an interstate bank that looks for a solid reputation in the community. Read story
Joseph P. Kahn
The Snack Food That's Eating America
A portrait of the marketing strategy, research, and development of Smartfood popcorn. Read story
Heartbreak;
"I'M BASICALLY A COMPROMISER," BILL Rodgers was saying, sitting on the patio outside his Phoenix condominium. "If a bad situation came up, I always prefe... Read story
Sunstroke
Winning the Pentax World Solar Challenge proved a bit of a problem for our boys from John Paul Mitchell Systems Inc. (see "Are We Having Fun Yet?" October... Read story
Are We Having Fun Yet?
John Paul Mitchell Systems is a new-wave profit machine with few moving parts and a direct connection to Paradise Read story
Hot, Hotter, Hottest
It would be too bad if Donald Kingsborough isn't a leading candidate for "hottest entrepreneur in America," because we're pretty sure he could handle the ... Read story
The Legacy Of Charlie Moore
Two friends. Two companies. Two totally different management styles. One life became a story of shared success, the other ended in tragedy Read story
Caddy Shack
Companies from far and wide are lining up at Sewell Village Cadillac to learn a thing or two about bringing customers back for more Read story
Update;
Say this for the ancient Egyptians: they may not have known multilevel marketing from crabgrass, but they sure knew how to build pyramids. Big ones, with... Read story
When Bad Management Becomes Criminal
What was once thought of as a "bad management decision" can now land executives in jail. Read story
Automatic Transmission
Sure, the U.S. auto industry may not have been suffering from a glut of good ideas lately, but one of the better new ones may be bouncing down from the bl... Read story
Raising The Roof
The fastest-growing company in the United States sells asphalt shingles. A lot of them. Read story
Television;
IT ISN'T EXACTLY "Let's Make a Deal" -- no studio audience members dressed up as dinner salads, no contestants betting the lawn furniture against whatever... Read story
Report On The States;
CENTER OSSIPEE, N.H., IS NOT THE sort of town that makes you think instantly of twenty-first-century America. Deserted by the railroad and skirted by Rou... Read story
The Immigrant Prince
From Ellis Island to the corner grocery to the country's largest macaroni company, "JP" Pellegrino's story is the story of American enterprise. Read story
"a" For Effort
Knowing why most mergers fail is one thing; doing something about it is quite another. Just ask the CEO of Acrian. Read story
The Inc. 100 Portfolio;
In 1984, Ben & Jerry's Homemade Inc. (#74), of Waterbury, Vt., was about to graduate from privately owned purveyor of upscale ice cream to publicly he... Read story
Aah, Those Were The Days
Inflation topping 15%, the prime nudging 20%, and business failure rates skyrocketing. When it came to starting a company. . . Read story
The Training Imperative
Competitive pressures are forcing more and more companies to get into educating employees. The question is, how? Read story
Life After Success
For Tom Monaghan, building a company was only a part of the vision. Read story
Private Lives;
Seven decades after its founding, a family business repositions itself for growth. Read story
On Display
Founder Gordon Segal's sense of selling as theater has made Crate Barrel one of the world's most admired and imitated retailing operations. Read story
Starstruck
Jane Fonda starred in the marketing campaign for her ill-fated line of exercisewear. But Ron Mester's company landed the leading role in the ensuing tragedy. Read story
A Perfect Pass
The IRS says you can't sell out to your children and stay involved in the company. The founders of Color Art discovered a way to do both. Read story
Networking: A Little Help From Your Friends
In an age of rapid change, more and more CEOs are turning to one another to help solve their companies' problems. Read story
Portrait Of A Compulsive Entrepreneur
Launching products, starting companies, playing chicken with Procter Gamble -- to Wilson Harrell, business is just one damn adventure after another. Read story
Death Of A Robot
Some analysts are predicting a booming "domestic slave market" over the next 10 years. Just give an order -- cut the lawn, cook up some eggs, or guard th... Read story
Whipped!
When tiny Henri's Foods took on Kraft's Miracle Whip salad dressing, it didn't know what it was getting into. Then again, neither did Kraft. Read story
In The Public Eye
One day last spring, Rick Inatome -- the youthful and by all accounts healthy CEO of Inacomp Computer Centers Inc., a Troy, Mich.-based retailing chain --... Read story
Private Lives;
Demon dialers, Dungeons Dragons, and the great $5 disposable suit. Read story
An Ache In The Heartland
In midwestern "rustbowl" states, bold planning and brassy ad campaigns must do battle with a legacy of bureaucratic neglect and corroded morale. Read story
Get Your Program Here
Like many good businessmen, Mets manager Davey Johnson relies on experience, instincts, and a personal computer. Read story
Putting Stock In Your Advisers
Young companies are using equity to help forge closer ties to such important outside firms as executive recruiters and accountants. Read story
Capitalizing Contracts
We all know that politics makes strange bedfellows, but when the bedroom itself gets auctioned off to public investors, who shares the linen gets stranger... Read story
Congress Gets Into The Entrepreneurship Act
Congress is currently considering a piece of legislation that may go farther than anything before it in defining the entrepreneur's concerns within the br... Read story
New Faces Of 1984
ENDEVCO INC. Like the steel industry, the oil and gas industry has more than occasionally suffered for its size. And, again, as in the case of the s... Read story
Steven Jobs Of Apple Computer: The Missionary Of Micros
The lights dim in John Hancock Hall. As a slide tape synchs in, the music begins to swell: loud, taunchy, pulse-pumping rock dressed in the rhythms of the... Read story
What's The Difference Between Politicians And Cottage Cheese?
Not much, at least from a marketing standpoint. And that's where David Sawyer comes in. Read story
Captain Kirk And His Spatial Light Modulator
Ron Kirk came back to Findlay, Ohio, with a fireman's commission and a deep curiosity about holography. Today his small company, Holotronics, holds the brigh... Read story
Roses Are Blue
The War of the Roses is over, and the roses lost. On October 24, 1983, a federal judge in Madison, Wis., ruled against florist Al Felly in his attempt to ... Read story
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