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Recent Growth Strategies Articles

Resource: Export Reports

By Stephanie L Gruner |  Aug 1, 1996

Some information on how to contact different services offered by the U.S. Commerce Department.  Read more

Benchmark: The Growing Labor Challenge

By Donna Fenn |  Aug 1, 1996

Some data that show the challenges faced by small and midsize companies looking for an adequate labor force.  Read more

Thatcher's Self-Employment

By Charles Dellheim |  Jul 1, 1996

An expert on Margaret Thatcher suggests scrutinizing Britain's initiatives holds lessons for America.  Read more

Divide and Conquer

By William R. Pape |  Jun 15, 1996

A past CIO explains why small companies need to decentralize, and how to do it.  Read more

Marketing: Double Exposure

By Sarah Schafer |  Jun 15, 1996

An overview of how a plastics manufacturer is using the World Wide Web to boost regional and international sales.  Read more

It's All in the Marketing

By Jeffrey Zygmont |  May 24, 1996

Volant ski managed to cut a niche in the crowded ski equipment market once before. Can it do it again? Dav...  Read more

The Age of the Gazelle

By John Case |  May 15, 1996

A look at some data that shows most of today's new jobs come from a relative handful of fast-growing companies.  Read more

The New Civil War

By David Friedman |  May 15, 1996

This feature explains who pays the price for wasteful subsidies used to attract or retain businesses.  Read more

Is America Really Different?

By John Case |  May 15, 1996

Data showing the roles small businesses play in European economies compared with the role they play in the U.S economy.  Read more

'Flashes of Genius'

By George Gendron |  May 15, 1996

Peter Drucker on entrepreneurial complacency and delusions—and the madness of always thinking you're numb one.  Read more

International: Finding Overseas Agents

By Sarah Schafer |  May 1, 1996

An expert at getting superior overseas sales agents offers some tips and advice.  Read more

Start-Up, Spanish Style

By Jerry Useem |  Apr 26, 1996

When Nicolas Luca de Tena was setting up his franchising business in Madrid in the mid-1980s, "entrepreneurs" he says, "were considered bad people" in Spa...  Read more

The Defiant Ones

By Jerry Useem |  Apr 1, 1996

Europe has concluded that it must work harder to recognize and nurture growth businesses, and what that means to you.  Read more

Taxes: What Makes Companies Move?

By Jill Andresky Fraser |  Mar 1, 1996

Some results of a recent survey of over 200 companies examining state and local tax incentive policies.  Read more

Alliances: Making a Marketing Match

By Jerry Useem |  Feb 1, 1996

A promising new technology was successfully marketed by forging new alliances.  Read more

Plastics Make Perfect

By Joshua D. Macht |  Dec 15, 1995

A look at a company using "rapid prototyping," a process that gets new products to market quickly.  Read more

Cause-Related Marketing: An Eye for Free Publicity

By Stephanie L. Gruner |  Dec 1, 1995

A quick look at the benefits of one company's involvement with a community-outreach program.  Read more

International: JETRO--Your Ticket to Japan?

By Susan Greco |  Nov 1, 1995

A quick look at some programs offered by the Japan External Trade Organization, JETRO  Read more

Anatomy of a Launch: The Year of Living Dangerously

By Susan Greco |  Nov 1, 1995

The last of a three-part series that traces a product's national launch.  Read more

The Globalists

By Donna Fenn |  Oct 15, 1995

A look at three 1995 Inc. 500 companies who do business overseas.  Read more

The Age of the Specialist

By John Case |  Aug 1, 1995

One of Inc.'s senior writers muses on the comments of Michael Treacy about growing a company through networks.  Read more

Red Stars Rising

By James L. Hickman |  Aug 1, 1995

The president of a Russian telephone company explains the challenge of finding employees in the former USSR.  Read more

Venture Capital: Making the Most of a VC Forum

By Jill Andresky Fraser |  Aug 1, 1995

A CEO offers tips on how to make the most of a venture-capital forum.  Read more

Branding: 800-PARTNER

By Susan Greco |  Jul 1, 1995

The sharing of vanity phone numbers is becoming a real asset for small businesses in local markets.  Read more

Getting A Line On Business

By Inc. staff |  Jun 15, 1995

A quick overveiw of the International Business Exchange Network and how to connect.  Read more

The Rise of the Urban Entrepreneur

By Michael E. Porter |  May 15, 1995

A Harvard Business School professor explains that small urban businesses can thrive and how the government can help.  Read more

How to Get Started

By Paul Reynolds |  May 1, 1995

Column discussing government programs designed to help entrepreneurs and why no one knows about them.  Read more

ADR as Part of the Culture

By Donna Fenn |  May 1, 1995

One company creates a dispute resolution program to avoid potential lawsuits.  Read more

How Companies Use Arbitration

By Donna Fenn |  May 1, 1995

Benchmark chart illustrating how arbitration can be a cost-effective way to stay out of court.  Read more

Staying Out of Court

By Donna Fenn |  May 1, 1995

Advice and resources on using alternative dispute resolution (ADR) to settle employee disputes out of court.  Read more

The Exporter's Catalog

By Susan Greco |  Apr 1, 1995

Information on a catalog of books, tapes, and newsletters on international business.  Read more

Are Overseas Investors Better

By Jill Andresky Fraser |  Apr 1, 1995

A CEO first person about going overseas to secure capital.  Read more

Stand-In

By Nancy Archuleta |  Feb 1, 1995

A CEO tells how she was used as a figurehead to get federal benefits, but fought and won control of her company.  Read more

International: Showcases for U.S. Catalogers

By Susan Greco |  Jan 1, 1995

An overview of different U.S. catalogers finding profits overseas regardless of their size.  Read more

Making Connections

Jan 1, 1995

A deluge of people are creating home-based businesses and "virtual" companies with their colleagues working out of their own homes across the country orev...  Read more