There He Goes Again

Our old friend Milt Kuolt checked in recently with the not-so-startling news that he's at it again -- starting companies, that is. The founder of Thousan...  Read story

At The Crossroads

After 10 years, Bill Wilson has discovered that the very traits that fed his early success no longer seem to work. He can no longer control every event in th...  Read story

The Return Of Billy Jack

Tom Laughlin has set out to do for videocassettes what Amway did for household products and Domino's did for pizza  Read story

The Dream Makers

Here's the rare Wall Street shop that builds its LBOs around people, not numbers -- and makes a killing in the process  Read story

Update: Export Controls Kachajian's Revenge

Finally, in one of the longest reenactments of David and Goliath on record, "Kachajian's Rebellion" (INC., October 1986) has brought reward to the just.Read story

Update: Morse Tool "we Really Could've Made It'

Like a "stove" boat out of its hometown's whaling past, historic Morse Cutting Tool is about to go under -- ending what readers will remember ("Against Al...  Read story

Cosmic Marketing

Halley's Comet has come and gone, but Owen W. Ryan Jr. is still flying high. "Can you believe it?" asks Ryan, nearly buried by some 27,000 letters inquiri...  Read story

High On The Hog

In the end, they'll call it corporate vision. But to Don Beaver, it looks more like years of false starts, wrong turns, and belated inspiration.  Read story

Piano Man

Although Santi Falcone may make the world's best piano, people won't buy it till the world's best pianists play it. And the world's best pianists won't play ...  Read story

Against All Odds

Even with his union and the governor on his side, turning around a troubled company in a troubled industry has proved tricky business for Jim Lambert.  Read story

Folklore has it that deer, dogs, and all manner of creatures great and small have a mysterious ability to warn of such approaching calamities as storms an...  Read story

William Gore 1912-1986

DURING AN INTERVIEW IN THE summer of 1982, Bill Gore, founder of W.L. Gore & Associates Inc., now well known for its Gore-tex products, taught me a ne...  Read story

New Products;

ARE YOU TIRED OF ALL THOSE wimpy soft drinks being fobbed off as real soda these days by the big bottlers? Well, hold on to your pop-tops: help is on the...  Read story

Kachajian's Rebellion

The story of how one small manufacturere spent six years fighting to save his business from the deadening hand of government export controls -- and won. Sort...  Read story

Triple A Rating

It's not how you play the game that counts, just how you pack the stands. So says Patty Cox Hampton, who has turned around what may have been the worst franc...  Read story

The Turnaround

How a dying division of International Harvester became one of America's most competitive small companies.  Read story

That's Easy For You To Say

An obsession with "corporate culture" can be worse than no culture at all. Just ask the man who wrote the book on the subject.  Read story

Kuolt's Complex

Sooner or later, every successful entrepreneur has to face the possibility that his company has outgrown him. Milt Kuolt did it twice, and it wasn't any easi...  Read story

"being Dead Is Bad For Business"

A growing number of businesspeople are looking beyond the survival of their own companies -- and becoming outspoken participants in the nuclear arms debate.  Read story

The Passion Of Robert Swiggert

Seventeen years ago, the president of a small electronics company looked at the business he had built and realized that it had turned hostile and threatening...  Read story

Will Success Spoil Jerry Gorde?

On the road to the revolution, a young radical took a detour and wound up as CEO of a $6-million company.  Read story

That Daring Young Man And His Flying Machines

The fastest-growing company in the history of aviation has a problem. It has designed a product so popular that it can't satisfy demand.  Read story

Spontaneous Combustion

The decade-old revival of the wood-stove industry is cooling as quickly as it heated up. Upstart market leader Vermont Castings counts on the reputation it h...  Read story

The Un-manager

No ranks, no titles, nothing but profits. W. L. Gore Associates has an unusual approach to management structure -- none at all.  Read story

The Importance Of Being Arthur

"My whole philosophy," says Arthur Imperatore, "is that we build men. Incidentally, we move freight." By practicing what he preaches, he's driven A-P-A Trans...  Read story

Sole Success

The Swartz brothers combined old-time quality, a new sales strategy, and a lot of luck to move their boots from Army-Navy stores to Saks in just two years.  Read story

"they Took My Name But They Didn't Get My Goat"

Taylor Wine Company prevented Walter S. Taylor from using his name on his own wines. Says Walter  Read story

How Thousand Trails Got Out Of The Woods

Founder Milt Kuolt strangled himself with debt to build a network of 14 idyllic camping preserves.  Read story

Just A Poor, Dumb Dirt Farmer

Colonel Gregory is the fifth generation to farm the rich dirt of Virginia. Truth be told, he's a lot smarter than he makes out to be.  Read story

Winning Is A State Of Mind At Nike

Three running enthusiasts teamed up and turned a fad into a national movement. Phil Knight has turned that winner's attitude into a corporate philosophy.  Read story

Boyd Hill Keeps Hammering Away

His construction materials company is losing money, but he won't give up without a hard fight.  Read story