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L.M.S.


Baby Moguls

By L.M.S. |  Feb 1, 1985

Marilyn Kourilsky can spot a potential entrepreneur when he is still three feet tall and sledding down the nearest snow-covered hill. Kourilsky, a U...  Read story

Born-again Main Street

By L.M.S. |  Feb 1, 1985

Like a dying cow town filled with tumbleweeds, the retailing core of Southbridge, Mass., was nearly emptied when shopping malls mushroomed on the edge of ...  Read story

The Wheels Of Fortune

By L.M.S. |  Feb 1, 1985

The big automakers have been speeding down a straightaway for the past year, enjoying fat times reminiscent of the preimport days. Tagging along behind t...  Read story

Beyond The Keyboard

By L.M.S. |  Feb 1, 1985

You don't use a computer because you can't type? Some companies are turning the lack of typing skills into a business opportunity by selling unusual alte...  Read story

Medical Software Gets A Checkup

By L.M.S. |  Jan 1, 1985

Many doctors are turning to computers these days to help them diagnose and treat diseases. But the technology itself may have to pass a checkup soon. The...  Read story

A Generic Shot In The Arm

By L.M.S. |  Jan 1, 1985

To compete in pharmaceuticals, many small companies feed off their bigger competitors, pouncing on the drugs that are removed from patent protection. Thes...  Read story

Living And Dying At The Federal Trough

By L.M.S. |  Dec 1, 1984

The oil cartel gripped the United States in an energy stranglehold in 1973, creating problems for motorists and opportunities for entrepreneurs. Figuring...  Read story

The Cost Of House Calls

By L.M.S. |  Dec 1, 1984

The salesperson with a briefcase is a big expense. The average cost of an industrial sales call went up 50% from 1979 to 1983, according to recent report...  Read story

Taking The Trade Wars To Japan's Own Soil

By L.M.S. |  Nov 1, 1984

A group of U.S. electronics companies have taken their fight to Japan. Talk about protectionism has dominated the headlines lately, but now many companies...  Read story

No Babbling Brooks In Ohio's "polymer Valley"

By L.M.S. |  Nov 1, 1984

Polymer Valley? While almost every state in the union is fighting to attract new computer and electronics companies, Ohio is looking elsewhere. Although i...  Read story

Enticed To The Altar

By L.M.S. |  Nov 1, 1984

Marrying season has arrived for small companies. Many of them are going to the altar with much larger corporations that have a substantial dowry to invest...  Read story

A Star Is Born

By L.M.S. |  Oct 1, 1984

If Michael Jackson's name can pack a stadium, and Norman Mailer's can sell books, then surely Jon Freeman's can produce a few hit video games. Software pu...  Read story

Home Is Where The Work Is

By L.M.S. |  Oct 1, 1984

The scattered ranks of home-based business operators are forming up to battle an apparent attack on homework by unions. Homework in the outerwear and wome...  Read story

In Search Of The Perfect Mate

By L.M.S. |  Oct 1, 1984

Computerized matchmaking has gone into business. Once the last resort of the lovelorn, high-technology partner searches are now the rage in fields as dive...  Read story

The Grub-and-games Strategy Still Thrives

By L.M.S. |  Sep 1, 1984

The food-and-fun strategy that Pizza Time Theatre Inc. pioneered still has a following in the restaurant business, even though Pizza Time itself filed for...  Read story

A New Pool Of Capital To Help Fund Research

By L.M.S. |  Sep 1, 1984

As more and more companies turn to research and development limited partnerships as a source of capital, Wall Street is starting to reach out further for ...  Read story

Somebody Is Still Buying De Loreans

By L.M.S. |  Sep 1, 1984

The past two years have been far more auspicious for the gull-winged De Lorean cars than they have been for the entrepreneur who brought them to the publi...  Read story

A Consultant Tries Old Wlne In New Bottles

By L.M.S. |  Sep 1, 1984

Convenience is the marketing imperative for professionals in the 1980s. Lawyers are putting up storefront offices with weekend and evening hours. Doctors ...  Read story

New Proflts For Nonprofits

By L.M.S. |  May 1, 1984

Pinched by cutbacks in government funding, nonprofit organizations are entering the marketplace in more and more aggressive ways. That has prompted compla...  Read story

Reel Money

By L.M.S. |  May 1, 1984

Fending off stiff competition from cable television, Hollywood has been searching for ways to give movies an excitement worth leaving home to view. That h...  Read story

Mcpawnbroker

By L.M.S. |  Apr 1, 1984

Gerald M. Kagan is taking pawnshops out of seedy city storefronts and bringing them to suburban shopping centers. He and his partner, Daniel M. Naygrow, a...  Read story

The Fastest-growing Company In America

By L.M.S. |  Mar 1, 1984

If you think you have headaches coping with rapid growth, consider this: There is a corporation in Los Angeles that began with 2 employees in 1979 and wil...  Read story

Auditing The Competition

By L.M.S. |  Feb 1, 1984

One of the more popular weapons in the arsenal of industrial espionage has been the personnel-scouting report, which sizes up the competition's staff, muc...  Read story

Pay-as-you-go Pr

By L.M.S. |  Jan 1, 1984

A little public relations was just what David X. Manners Co. needed, and -- as luck would have it -- PR was Manners's stock-in-trade. For 17 years, the ti...  Read story

To Sleep, Perchance To Dream

By L.M.S. |  Nov 1, 1983

The legend goes that inventor James Watt, the Scottish engineer who fathered the Industrial Revolution, was having dream one night. In the dream, he was o...  Read story