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Bear Market

By Inc. staff |  Sep 1, 1988

Supplier competes with bears for her raw materials, berries.  Read more

Burger Zapper

By Leslie Brokaw |  Sep 1, 1988

New business information on a commercial barbeque- equipment company.  Read more

Cheap Counsel

By Joshua Hyatt |  Sep 1, 1988

Profile and analysis of a start-up legal services firm.  Read more

Polygraph Tests Banned

By Inc. staff |  Sep 1, 1988

Explanation of law prohibiting lie detectors as a means of screening job applicants.  Read more

The Competitors Within

By Marisa Manley |  Sep 1, 1988

Ways to protect your company from inside competitors.  Read more

Keeping The Injured Involved

By Inc. staff |  Sep 1, 1988

Reducing workers' compensation payments by bringing injured workers back sooner.  Read more

Learning the Ropes

By H. Garrett Deyoung |  Aug 1, 1988

Suggestions on taking a cost-effective approach to export opportunities.  Read more

Is There A Lawyer In The House?

By Inc. staff |  Aug 1, 1988

Lawyers who serve a company both as legal counselor and as business advisor may get mired in a gray area.  Read more

Trading Places: Small Businesses and Global Trade

By David L. Birch |  Apr 1, 1988

Economist David L. Birch on the state of our global competitiveness and the surprising truth about small exporters.  Read more

Splitting Heirs (1988)

By Joshua Hyatt |  Mar 1, 1988

Nearly a hundred years ago, Lorenzo Vaughn planted a time bomb in his company. Finally, it went off  Read more

At The Crossroads

By Lucien Rhodes |  Feb 1, 1988

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 more

Weekly Readings

By Charles W. Kyd |  Feb 1, 1988

If you wait for your monthly financials to detect trouble, you may well be too late to do anything about it.  Read more

Second Acts

By Paul B. Brown |  Dec 1, 1987

The search for new and bigger markets often leads a company right back home  Read more

Hamburger Heaven

By John Case |  Sep 1, 1987

How McDonald's created modern-day franchising  Read more

Why Daughters Are Better

By Curtis Hartman |  Aug 1, 1987

When it comes to training for the job, winning the respect of employees and customers, and easing the pains of succession, 'daddy's little girl' is probably ...  Read more

The Chinese Way Of Business

By Joel Kotkin |  Jun 1, 1987

What appears to be a good old-fashioned family business may be a $100-million international conglomerate  Read more

The Pentagon As Partner;

Apr 1, 1987

The Pentagon As Partner;. While a Star Wars contract can set a company humming, it's hardly a ticket to easy street. Dealing with the federal government ...  Read more

Inventory Management;

By Reported by Patricia Amend |  Nov 1, 1986

Just because metals and other commodities are selling at bargain prices, don't make the mistake of loading up on raw materials. Economist Gary Shilling (...  Read more

The Turnaround

By Patricia Amend |  Aug 1, 1986

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

Vintage Suit

By Virginia I. Postrel |  Aug 1, 1986

In Pennsylvania, job bias claims based on age surpass claims based on race or gender.  Read more

Black-owned Businesses

By Virginia Inman |  Feb 1, 1986

Black-owned Businesses. When it comes to black entrepreneurs, there's good news and bad news. Black Americans are creating new businesses at a much faste...  Read more

Trading Places: Are America and Japan Locked in a Trade War?

By Joel Kotkin and George Gendron |  Jul 1, 1985

Japanese and American entrepreneurs gather for a freewheeling discussion of the differences that divide them, and the ventures that may bring them together.  Read more

Thinking Small

By William Souder |  Jul 1, 1985

Thinking Small. MINIMILLS PRODUCE 20% OF American steel, and they are one of the few bright spots in a dismal industry. Now a similar trend toward minimills ...  Read more

Will The Son Also Rise?

By Joshua Hyatt |  Apr 1, 1985

Will The Son Also Rise?. It was a great romance, while it lasted: Wall Street and the leveraged buyout. Now the two are giving birth to their own mini-phenom...  Read more

Growing Steady

By Tom Richman |  Sep 1, 1984

Maybe it's how well you grow that matters, not how fast.  Read more