Growth Strategies


Recent Growth Strategies Articles

Growth Strategies: Touch of Glass

A company provides its customers with custom machinery for bottling and packaging, along with some surprising pluses.  Read more

Hotline

Hotline information paragraphs.  Read more

Blind Ambition

Two companies fight over the patent rights to fiber optic HDTV (high-definition television).  Read more

So You Wanna Be in Pictures

An independent entrepreneur creates an inexpensive alternative to the large Hollywood movie studios.  Read more

Exporting Services

A business-seminar company talks about the surprising ease with which they were able to export their services.  Read more

Contempt of Court

How to avoid litigation and cut legal costs.  Read more

International

Survey: Answers to some questions about how companies are preparing for the European unification in 1992.  Read more

Risky Business

How to evaluate your company in preparing for insurance planning.  Read more

The Employer's Burden

Avoid negligent-hiring suits by thoroughly checking the backgrounds of your job applicants.  Read more

Why We Lose

Book review: The Silent War: Inside The Global Business Battles Shaping America's Future. (Random House 1989)  Read more

Trading Places With the Big Guys

How a small shoe-care product manufacturer gets large athletic-shoe makers to endorse its product.  Read more

Information, Please

How to give useful job references without getting in to hot water.  Read more

International Partners

California company produces goods in Taiwan because of the excellent service.  Read more

What's Holding You Back?

Survey: What's the most significant barrier to your starting or expanding export sales?  Read more

Hotline

Hotline informational paragraphs on the above topic.  Read more

Victims Rights

How to defend yourself against frivolous litigation.  Read more

Pleasure Sub

New Business paragraph regarding the manufacture of commercial submarines.  Read more

Patent Pending

Story of an inventor's 30-year battle to gain control of patent rights to the laser technology he helped develop.  Read more

Small Business Sales Growth

Graphs displaying the proportion of businesses that had sales growth in 1986-1989 and the percent of change.  Read more

Keeping Up, With NASA's Help

Information regarding database searching agency for the high-tech information age  Read more

The Brave New World of Antitrust

Herbal tea company wins antitrust case despite passivity of FTC.  Read more

The Partnership Route

Joint ventures with foreign markets can bring new frontiers in technology and management.  Read more

Do Not Pass Go

Dual deck VCR manufacturer sues Japan Inc. for blocking access to parts.  Read more

Selling To Japan

Sample of small American companies selling wares in Japan.  Read more

Blowout

A well-hidden payoff scandal almost sent one CEO into bankruptcy.  Read more