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Personal Finance: Don't Let Divorce Break Up Your Business

By Jill Andresky Fraser |  Jun 1, 1995

Two divorce lawyers offer entrepreneurs some tips on how to make a business "divorce-proof."  Read more

Benchmark: When Voice Mail Answers the Phones

By Martha E. Mangelsdorf |  Jun 1, 1995

Several CEOs from different industries explain how they use voice-mail to answer their companies' incoming calls.  Read more

Management: There Are No Simple Businesses Anymore

By Edward O. Welles |  May 15, 1995

An up-close look at a family business wrestling with the new, complex rules facing today's small business.  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

The Smart Vendor-Audit Checklist

By Stephanie L. Gruner |  Apr 1, 1995

Supplier audit form designed to help a company recruit the best vendors.  Read more

From Easy Orders to Disorder

By Susan Greco |  Apr 1, 1995

A company loses control of its overseas distribution and pays a hefty fee to get it back.  Read more

Avoid Insurer Roadblocks

By Jill Andresky Fraser |  Apr 1, 1995

How to negotiate with insurers to avoid roadblocks.  Read more

Surviving the Jump to Warp Speed

By R. Douglas Shute |  Mar 15, 1995

A CEO explains how technology gives businesses a means to change while it also forces such change.  Read more

Reprogramming the Company

By Anne Murphy |  Mar 15, 1995

A close-up study of how a company brought in its own expert to upgrade its system, and what that was like.  Read more

Riches from Rags

By Hal Plotkin |  Mar 15, 1995

After nearly failing, the clothing manufacturer profiled in this article turned to technology, and business is booming.  Read more

The Long Good-byte

By Mark Wheeler |  Mar 15, 1995

A profile of a private investigator who uses high tech tools to gather information for his clients.  Read more

Will Your Next Big Technology Investment Pay Off?

By Joshua D. Macht |  Mar 15, 1995

Business owners and computer-industry experts tell readers what technology they plan to buy, and why.  Read more

What You Don't Know Can Hurt You

By Donna Fenn |  Mar 1, 1995

Book that gives employers the facts about managing employees and the law.  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

Mini Good Form: How the Right Kind of Bill Can Control Your Legal Costs

By Jill Andresky Fraser |  Feb 1, 1995

A lawyer analyzes a legal bill, pointing out specific areas that legal customers should watch for overbilling.  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

Overseas Packing

Jan 1, 1995

Don't forget when you're traveling overseas and taking along computers, modems, and printers, to packadapter plugs and converters. Adapters allow plugs to...  Read more

Tapping Uncle Sam

Jan 1, 1995

When Chris Nowak started Rocky Mountain Motorworks, a mail-order distributor of Volkswagenparts, it never occurred to him that local economic-development ...  Read more

Marketing with Competitors

Jan 1, 1995

Joining a trade group can be intimidating, and for many entrepreneurs it's an ordeal they'd rather skip. One option: if the existingtrade groups don't see...  Read more

Defending International Patents

Jan 1, 1995

There are no cheap ways to defend international patents. But once you've staked a claim in a country, it can pay to sue for smallinfringements every so of...  Read more

Join the Club

Jan 1, 1995

Think you're too young to sell overseas? You're probably not. Many fast-growing small companies are going global. A poll ofcompanies on the 1993 Inc. 500 ...  Read more

First Steps to Foreign Markets

Jan 1, 1995

Scouting out foreign markets can be intimidating. Where do you start when you've never tried it before? There are three steps a company can take to...  Read more

Exclusivity vs. Temporary Monopoly

Jan 1, 1995

Lining up good stateside distributors is challenge enough, but finding committed distributors overseas is even more daunting.Most foreign distributors wan...  Read more

Packing for Foreign Trade Shows

Jan 1, 1995

I've seen Americans at overseas trade shows who can't find their products, who've lost their equipment, and whose people wereheld up at customs," says Kei...  Read more

The New and Improved American Small Business

By Tom Ehrenfeld |  Jan 1, 1995

A close-up look at what it takes for a small business to battle with giant, nationwide competitors.  Read more

Programming: Software from Scratch

By David Abrahamson |  Jan 1, 1995

Different executive officers compare customized software to off-the-shelf packages.  Read more

Voice Mail Tops Telemarketers

Jan 1, 1995

Anticipating a good response to his television ad, Menderes Akdag of Lens Express, in Deerfield Beach, Fla., hired a telemarketing firm to field calls for...  Read more

Art for Business's Sake

Jan 1, 1995

One way to get a unique benefit out of a charitable contribution is to donate money to an art museum--some have programs that allow companies to borrowart...  Read more