Joshua Hyatt


Seedbeds;

By Joshua Hyatt |  Apr 1, 1986

VENTURE CAPITALIST DAVID Silver just wanted to buy technology from Los Alamos National Scientific Laboratory, in New Mexico, a few years ago. But from th...  Read story

Building Boom: A Shaky Foundation

By Joshua Hyatt |  Mar 1, 1986

Are we heading for a commercial real estate crash? Most cities already have a glut of office space, especially when you consider the amount of const...  Read story

Writing Policy;

By Joshua Hyatt |  Feb 1, 1986

IN HIS BID TO BEcome the next Mr. Olympia, a contestant strapped a refrigerator to his back and ran around a race-track. Before he finished, the strap br...  Read story

The Ceo Who Came In From The Cold

By Joshua Hyatt |  Jan 1, 1986

U.S. exporter Ralph Gregorian was kicked out of the Soviet Union on spy charges he says are outrageous. So he did what any red-blooded entrepreneur would do:...  Read story

Just In Time;

By Joshua Hyatt |  Jan 1, 1986

A LOT OF TRENDY MANAGEment philosophies come and go with little effect. But Dan Kiurski credits Just in Time, the Japanese manufacturing concept, with re...  Read story

Atlantic Cement: New Focus Produces Concrete Results

By Joshua Hyatt |  Dec 1, 1985

It is no wonder that Jack Gordon used to think of kiln dust as a "growing, spreading gray monster." His cement company churned out 150,000 tons of the was...  Read story

Labor Pain;

By Joshua Hyatt |  Dec 1, 1985

THE COMMUNICATIONS WORKers of America (CWA) used to have a simple answer for employees of small companies who asked to join: Forget it. Such workpla...  Read story

Behind Bars;

By Joshua Hyatt |  Nov 1, 1985

STEFAN GOLAB WAS OVERCOME by vapors escaping from cyanide vats at work. Now he is dead. And company executives may soon be in jail. The three exec...  Read story

No Touchdowns;

By Joshua Hyatt |  Oct 1, 1985

PEOPLE WHO TIME THEIR INvestments using such dubious barometers as hemline lengths and Superbowl winners should consider a more reliable approach like, sa...  Read story

When Parent Companies Create Orphans

By Joshua Hyatt |  Oct 1, 1985

Bill Sanko had good news when he met with his parent company, GTE Corp., in May 1984. The autonomous division he had spent four years creating was just t...  Read story

Machine-tool Makers Sense Revival Through Alliances

By Joshua Hyatt |  Sep 1, 1985

Francis Frazee isn't about to pass up even a tough job. So when a client came to him last year requesting a drilling machine capable of detecting broken ...  Read story

Cheap Money;

By Joshua Hyatt |  Sep 1, 1985

BILL STORY JR. WAS UNHAPPY when he got orders from a local government agency: Move out to make room for a shopping mall. Story has been shopping around si...  Read story

Breakthrough in Computer Design

By Joshua Hyatt |  Aug 1, 1985

A major departure in computer design could rekindle entrepreneurship in the industry.  Read story

Levi Strauss Learns A Fitting Lesson

By Joshua Hyatt |  Aug 1, 1985

James McDermott is one of Levi Strauss & Co.'s top managers, but he works a few miles from the waterfalls, wildflowers, and lush lawns that adorn the ...  Read story

Class Action

By Joshua Hyatt |  Jul 1, 1985

DON'T EXPECT TO SEE STUdents rushing to start businesses after taking one of those new courses in entrepreneurship. Such offerings have become a gro...  Read story

Blue Chips

By Joshua Hyatt |  Jul 1, 1985

James Peters usually gives unexpected visitors less than five minutes of his time, but he broke that rule for a group from Signode Industries Inc. last ye...  Read story

No Secrets;

By Joshua Hyatt |  Jun 1, 1985

GENERAL MOtors Corp. wants to know absolutely everything about Richard Lindgren's business -- details on its profit and loss figures, manufacturing capaci...  Read story

Blue Chips;

By Joshua Hyatt |  Jun 1, 1985

On Lloyd Thorndyke's first day as president of a new company two years ago, he had 128 employees and backing of $40 million. ETA Systems Inc. clearly was...  Read story

Slam Dunk;

By Joshua Hyatt |  May 1, 1985

DAVE BING GAINED FAME AS A guard in professional basketball. Now he is seeking fortune as a middleman in an unlikely place: the depressed steel industry....  Read story

Blue Chips;

By Joshua Hyatt |  May 1, 1985

Last summer, Stanley Lapidus's largest customer, General Motors Corp., handed him some news that made his coffee cup shake in his hand: GM was buying equi...  Read story

Will The Son Also Rise?

By Joshua Hyatt |  Apr 1, 1985

It was a great romance, while it lasted: Wall Street and the leveraged buyout. Now the two are giving birth to their own mini-phenomenon. According to in...  Read story

Hazardous Effects Of Vdt Legislation

By Joshua Hyatt |  Mar 1, 1985

The glowing screens of video display terminals (VDTs) have replaced typewriters in many offices, and now efforts to regulate their use because of health c...  Read story

The Last Auto Entrepreneur?

By Joshua Hyatt |  Mar 1, 1985

With the demise of John De Lorean's car, entrepreneurship in the automobile business may be gone forever. At the turn of the century, the auto indus...  Read story

A Worm In Apple?

By Joshua Hyatt |  Feb 1, 1985

While researching his new book on Apple Computer Inc., author Michael Moritz found the company's co-founder, Steven Jobs, to be the strong, silent type --...  Read story

Life In The Past Lane

By Joshua Hyatt |  Jan 1, 1985

Many companies have been bought for a song, but few have been started with one. That hasn't discouraged Dr. Donald Altfeld from launching a company based...  Read story

Come In, Sit Down, Take Over

By Joshua Hyatt |  Dec 1, 1984

You run a spirited young company and one day a global megacompany saunters up to your door. As the door hinges give way to one swift kick, all your talen...  Read story

The Wild Green Yonder

By Joshua Hyatt |  Nov 1, 1984

Raising capital can be especially difficult for a company whose future plans are up in the air. But as the commercialization of outer space accelerates, s...  Read story

Hong Kong: One Order Of Sweet And Sour Takeover

By Joshua Hyatt |  Nov 1, 1984

When the People's Republic of China becomes a landlord of Hong Kong in 1997, will freewheeling capitalism receive an eviction notice? China has agreed to ...  Read story

Esop Changes Could Up The Acquisition Ante

By Joshua Hyatt |  Oct 1, 1984

The sweeping changes that Congress has made in the laws regarding employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs) could lead to some fierce battles in the acquisit...  Read story

Lore Harp: Better To Give Than To Receive

By Joshua Hyatt |  Oct 1, 1984

While the story of her rise and fall in the computer industry has become part of the lore of entrepreneurship, Lore Harp has quietly moved on to new chall...  Read story

The Perils Of Being Public

By Joshua Hyatt |  Aug 1, 1984

For a young company on the fast track, going public can be a powerfully attractive option. But the public markets also can hold risks that a company is p...  Read story

A Marketing Play: What Makes Gobots Go?

By Joshua Hyatt |  Jul 1, 1984

In simpler times, a toy was a toy, a boy was a boy, and each knew where the other stood. But these days a casual introduction simply won't do. It takes ...  Read story