Karen E. Carney


How to Keep Staff in a Boom Economy

Here's how CompuWorks, a computer-systems-integration firm, has dramatically reduced turnover by cultivating a sense of common purpose among employees.  Read story

Keeping Score of Profits

Walk into a company that has its financial information open to everyone, and somewhere, somehow, you're going to see a scoreboard that reports and summari...  Read story

Figuring Out Your Critical Number

Eight months ago, Critz Inc., a Savannah, Ga.-based auto dealership, made the decision to start living by its crit...  Read story

CEO Compensation: The ABCs of Paying Yourself

Advice from experts and CEOs that adds up to primer for execs to figure out their annual salaries.  Read story

Registry: Who's Who in Small-Business Research

Sixteen thumbnail sketchs of the country's leading small-business economists, complete with e-mail addresses.  Read story

Overseas Sales On-Line

A quick look at several companies that are doing international business through on-line services like CompuServe.  Read story

You Have Some Choices

A brief look at why two growing companies decided to offer 401(k)s and how they balanced cost and service.  Read story

Hiring: Recuiting Strategically

A sales vice-president briefly explains how she improved her interviewing techniques.  Read story

Hiring: Voodoo Job Screening

A quick look at how a CEO is using handwriting analysis to assist in such decisions as hiring and team building.  Read story

Executive Education: Inc. Shops the Top Marketing Programs

A list of five sales-and-marketing "executive ed" programs, with information such as tuition, length and phone numbers.  Read story

Business for Sale: California Diving Magazine

A business offering complete with price, outlook, financial summary and the pros and cons of the purchase.  Read story

Benefits: Economical EAPs

A short article offering some information on employee-assistance program consortia, their benefits and pitfalls.  Read story

Cost Cutting: Your Old PCs for the New World's Needy

A look at a charity that collects used computers, repairs them, and sends them to the needy, at home and aboard.  Read story

The Inc. Network

Reader-to-reader advice.  Read story

He Pays Them to Quit Puffing

One company's technique for getting workers to quit smoking and resources for designing smoking-cessation classes.  Read story

Choosing an EAP

Five ways to gauge the suitability of an employee assistance program for your company.  Read story

Big Business's Yard Sale

Recycled-furniture dealers offer high-quality furniture at cut rates.  Read story

Surveys of Substance

Tips on designing and administering employee surveys.  Read story

Saving Cash with Second-Time-Around Goods

A consortium encourages its members to conserve resources by using recycled materials.  Read story

Network: June 1993

Reader-to-reader advice.  Read story

Network: June 1993

Network questions and answers.  Read story

Network: May 1993

Network: Reader to reader advice.  Read story

Island Crafts Cataloger

Financial summary and brief description of a Maine-based cataloger called Island Crafts.  Read story

The American Dream: Business For Sale

Financial summary and brief description of a lakefront inn and marina on Lake Tahoe.  Read story

Rocky Mountain Water-Ski Shop

Financial summary brief description of a water-ski shop.  Read story

The Secret Traps in SCORs

What to keep in mind when dealing with small corporate offering registrations.  Read story