Martha E. Mangelsdorf


Comic Relief

Is your business a laughing matter? W. Grant Brownrigg thinks so. After 20-plus years as a manager in small companies and nonprofits, Brownrigg has turn...  Read story

High-cost Producer In A Low-cost World

Most people at a liquidation auction see a dying business. Lewis Jaffe saw one waiting to be reborn. For several years, Jaffe had wanted to broaden...  Read story

Big Dreams

Not even four years ago, Skip Kelley was on the cover of INC. ("The Conversion of Skip Kelley," February 1984). He looked good there: happy, strong, abso...  Read story

Big Dreams, Continued

And what of Mr. Build itself, the company whose founder, Art Bartlett, shared that 1984 INC. cover with Kelley? Then, as in 1981 when he founded Mr. Buil...  Read story

The Pros And Cons;

Makes sense. Your company, the one with the big-time plans, needs a big-time name. And a big-time consultant to pick it? Maybe. Hiring a professi...  Read story

They Kid You Not

Forget yuppies. It's their little brothers and sisters you want. At least that's the message Harvard graduate students Lawrence Graham and Lawrence...  Read story

The House That Re/max Built

OWNERS: David and Gail Liniger, founders of Re/Max International Inc., the third-largest real-estate brokerage company in the United States SITE: Tw...  Read story