Leigh Buchanan


Superstar Alumni of the Inc. 500

A look back at how 20 companies from the past 30 years have created 575,457 jobs.  Read story

Notable Features Through the Years

Inc. magazine editor-at-large Leigh Buchanan gazes back at the past 15 years of editorial content and walks us through the highlights.  Read story

Out of the Coma. Back to the Office.

Rob McGovern is the same driven entrepreneur he was before his horrific car accident. Except that now his brain works differently.  Read story

Rethinking Employee Awards

I Love Rewards and other businesses find ways to bring meaning to corporate award ceremonies.  Read story

Book Review: Good Strategy/Bad Strategy

Author Richard P. Rumelt offers three simple steps to developing a strategy for your business.  Read story

A Brief History of Time Management

What are the major milestones in productivity throughout history? Here's a timeline of key events that helped increase human efficiency, including the commer...  View slideshow

How We Did It: Superfly Presents

The brains behind Bonnaroo talk about their early days in New Orleans, promoting music festivals, and the perks of doing what they love for a living.  Read story

Book Review: We First

Author Simon Mainwaring looks at how brands and consumers can use social media to build a better world.  Read story

Core Values of the Top Small Company Workplaces

The crucial element in well-run companies? Leaders who know what they believe in.  Read story

Where the CEO Is Just Another Guy With a Vote

At Namasté Solar, nothing is more important than the idea of workplace democracy.  Read story

Walking the Walk (Running the Run, Etc.)

TRX sells fitness, to customers and to employees.  Read story

You'll Never Work Alone

At Menlo Innovations, all work (seriously, all work) is done by pairs.  Read story

Survival of the Smartest

Hopkins Printing has staked its future on cross-training.  Read story

Book Review: Little Bets

Author Peter Sims addresses the idea of creative innovation.  Read story

Finding Jobs for Ex-offenders

How Sweet Beginnings offers a second chance to those who need it most  Read story

The 10 Best Entrepreneurship Courses of 2011

University courses in entrepreneurship are better—more useful, more real, more likely to produce actual companies—than they have ever been. Here are 10 w...  Read story

Best Courses 2011: Technology Venturing

Helping to turn university technologies into sustainable businesses  Read story

What the Students Say: Technology Venturing

Samit Gupta was pursuing a Ph.D. in biomedical engineering—until he took this course.  Read story

Best Courses 2011: Foundations of Management and Entrepreneurship

A class that brings together 485 students to work on a series of new ventures  Read story

Best Courses 2011: Mayfield Fellows

Providing students with a front-row seat to all the drama that Silicon Valley has to offer  Read story

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