Leigh Buchanan


Best Courses 2011: Entrepreneurial Selling

A course that customizes material for the sales-phobic CEO  Read story

What the Students Say: Entrepreneurial Selling

Entrepreneur Phillip Leslie found himself sweating bullets in Craig Wortmann's popular class.  Read story

Best Courses 2011: The Launch Pad

A novel program run at a college career center  Read story

Best Courses 2011: Sustainable Product and Market Development for Subsistence Marketplaces

Learning how to serve customers in emerging markets  Read story

What the Students Say: Sustainable Product and Market Development for Subsistence Marketplaces

Things look different when you finally meet your customers, as student Jenna Goebig learned.  Read story

Best Courses 2011: New Ventures

A program that places students in local angel groups  Read story

Best Courses 2011: Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans With Disabilities

A professor works with disabled veterans to help them build their futures.  Read story

Improving Government Customer Service

The state of Michigan gets a lesson in building a customer service culture.  Read story

Book Review: Killing Giants

Author Stephen Denny shares 10 strategies to topple the Goliath in your industry.  Read story

Best Courses 2011: Founders' Dilemmas

A course that focuses on people problems instead of the strategy-innovation-finance trifecta  Read story

A Customer Service Makeover

Seven tips on how to completely transform your company's customer service  Read story

Book Review: Brainsteering

Authors Kevin P. Coyne and Shawn T. Coyne write about idea generation and how to do it best.  Read story

How Great Entrepreneurs Think

Think inside the (restless, curious, eager) minds of highly accomplished company builders.  Read story

Book Review: The Price of Everything

There is a price behind each choice that we make, writes Eduardo Porter.  Read story

No More Friends with Benefits

A company takes aim at health-care costs by rooting out freeloaders.  Read story

The Best Books for Business Owners

There are so many great business books to choose from. Which ones are definitively worth your time? Our experts chime in on their favorite books of the year.  View slideshow

Bobby Flam Stands Strong

Bobby Flam, the owner of Jumbo’s Restaurant in Miami, continues to help others even as he tries to keep his business going.  Read story

Not Your Average Car Company

Jay Rogers founded Local Motors to build niche cars that meet the unique characteristics of cities such as Boston and Phoenix.  Read story

Say Yes to Solar

With their company SunRun, Lynn Jurich and Edward Fenster have created a way to get solar panels on homes for little or no cost.  Read story

More Than a Moving Company

Larry O'Toole says Gentle Giant Moving is a people and leadership development company providing high-end customer service.  Read story

The Art and Business of Motivational Speaking

If the podium is calling your name, you should get to know Josh Shipp, a one-man school in the art and business of motivational speaking.  Read story

Quiz: The Year in Entrepreneurship, 2010

Take Inc.’s end-of-year quiz to see what you remember, what you missed, and what you want to forget about in 2010.  Read story

Book Review: Better, Cheaper, Faster

Authors Michael Hammer and Lisa W. Hershman write about the levers for transforming how work gets done.  Read story

Doing Company Community Service Abroad

Here's how Better World Books sends employees abroad to help its nonprofit partners. The experience combines social entrepreneurship with team building.  Read story

Advice for Aspiring Speakers

If you are interested in becoming a motivational speaker, here are a few tips to get you started.  Read story

Inside the Mind of an Investor

Bill Draper of venture capital firm Draper Richards offers advice to entrepreneurs on raising capital.  Read story

A Wine Label From the Mandela Family

House of Mandela brings pride in the farming heritage of South Africa to wine making.  Read story

Review: MacroWikinomics

Authors Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams highlight organizations that are embracing Wikinomics.  Read story

The Demand Economy

How to locate deep pools of demand in a shrinking marketplace  Read story

Hot Market: The Aging Population

Baby boomers are hitting old age—and they are terrified of nursing homes. If only there was some way to keep the elderly in their homes and healthy.  Read story

Hot Market: Eco-Friendly Homeowners

Forget McMansions—tomorrow’s home is smaller and greener.  Read story

Hot Market: Consumer-Friendly Financial Services

The fees are high. The service is lousy. And strange charges appear for no reason. There has to be a better way to bank.  Read story

Hot Market: Locavores

Tainted burgers. Contaminated eggs. E. coli scares. No wonder Americans are looking close to home for their food.  Read story

Hot Market: Insomniacs

The problem with an always-on, 24-hour, caffeine-fueled culture: When you want to go to sleep, your humming brain won’t let you.  Read story

Hot Market: The Outsourced Work Force

More businesses are turning to remote workers. But can you really be sure that your off-site employees are working?  Read story

Hot Market: Bike Commuters

In urban areas, the average motorist spends nearly two days a year stuck in traffic. Perhaps biking is the answer.  Read story

Book Review: Islands of Profit In a Sea of Red Ink

Author Jonathan L. S. Byrnes addresses why 40 percent of your business is unprofitable.  Read story

Lessons From Nightmare Bosses

The No Asshole Rule author Robert Sutton shares lessons from his new book, Good Boss, Bad Boss .  Read story

How I Handled Myself During a Prison Riot

Jerry B. Heftler showed a new client what he was capable of by jumping into action during a prison riot.  Read story

Thriving Amid the Turmoil

The past decade has seen a national tragedy, two wars, and a financial meltdown. And yet through optimism and creativity, entrepreneurs were still able to lo...  Read story