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Recent Running a Business Articles

OSHA Can You See?

By Susan Greco |  Oct 1, 1991

Using government experts to help insure compliance with safety and environmental laws.  Read more

The Father of Invention

By Anne Murphy |  Oct 1, 1991

Company designs machine to test an individual's capacity to work.  Read more

How to Tap OSHA for Free

By Susan Greco |  Oct 1, 1991

How to request free OSHA consultations a listing of OSHA-sponsored consultants.  Read more

Network: October 1991

By Michael P. Cronin |  Oct 1, 1991

Network reader-to-reader advice.  Read more

Strictly Confidential

By Ellyn E. Spragins |  Sep 1, 1991

Advice on safeguarding company secrets through nondisclosure agreements.  Read more

Taking Stock

By Martha E. Mangelsdorf |  Sep 1, 1991

Simplified public offerings tailored to small companies.  Read more

Selling Your Customer's Customer

By Tom Richman |  Aug 1, 1991

Preselling products at both levels of the distribution chain, retail and wholesale.  Read more

Wash Out Defectors

By Bruce G. Posner |  Aug 1, 1991

Increasing the likelihood of future venture capital funding through prenuptial agreements.  Read more

Best Of The Trade Press

By Martha E. Mangelsdorf |  Aug 1, 1991

Recent trends from various trade journals.  Read more

Burning Ambition

By Jay Finegan |  Aug 1, 1991

Profile and analysis of a start-up manufacturer of waste oil and trash converters.  Read more

The Gamble

By John Case |  Jul 1, 1991

Profile of a family-business's attempt to enter the mass market by creating a national brand.  Read more

A Little Help from the Government

By Bruce G. Posner |  Jul 1, 1991

Types of government financing and tips on how to find them.  Read more

Broken Promises

By Martha E. Mangelsdorf |  Jul 1, 1991

The bitter truth about partnerships between large automotive corporations and their suppliers.  Read more

Listen to Your Market

By Anne Murphy |  Jul 1, 1991

Paragraph describing a telecommunications system enabling hearing- and speech-impaired people to use the phone.  Read more

Department of Labor Calling

By Ellyn E. Spragins |  Jul 1, 1991

Investigations conducted by the Department of Labor and some tips on overtime pay.  Read more

The Pacific Rim on a Shoestring

By Teri Lammers |  Jun 1, 1991

Sales strategy advice for any company that wants to sell overseas but doesn't know where to begin.  Read more

Free Help from Uncle Sam

By Ellyn E. Spragins |  Jun 1, 1991

Employee-skills testing programs available through the U.S. Department of Labor.  Read more

Update: Adventures of a Bag Man

By George Gendron |  May 1, 1991

A new company, headed by Mo Seigel, will manufacture a complete line of environmentally-sound household products.  Read more

Avoiding Employee Lawsuits

By Ellyn E. Spragins |  May 1, 1991

Protection strategies against hiring and firing lawsuits.  Read more

Bills To Keep An Eye On

By David Abrahamson |  May 1, 1991

Information about current legislation that affects small business.  Read more

The Price of Quality

By David Abrahamson |  May 1, 1991

An industrial distibutor wins the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award.  Read more

Rethinking Recycling

By Robert A. Mamis |  May 1, 1991

A conservationist CEO argues that recycling paper does more harm to the environment than cutting down trees.  Read more

USSR yellow pages

By Inc. staff |  Apr 1, 1991

Available Soviet Independent Business Directory with key information on Soviet companies.  Read more

Unfair Trade

By Martha E. Mangelsdorf |  Apr 1, 1991

Analysis of the current trade difficulties for U.S. exporters and the hazards of late payments from exports.  Read more

Putting the House in Order

By Leslie Brokaw |  Mar 1, 1991

Profile of a CEO's successful strategy that turned around his family's business.  Read more

Account-Ability

By Jill Andresky Fraser |  Mar 1, 1991

How one company's problems with accounts payable and the IRS jeopardized its future.  Read more

Sign Of The Times

By Martha E. Mangelsdorf |  Feb 1, 1991

New software program designed to help people write in government style.  Read more

Bills to Watch

By Martha E. Mangelsdorf |  Feb 1, 1991

Information on current legislation that affects small business.  Read more

The calendar method

By Inc. staff |  Feb 1, 1991

Keeping employees focused on goals by using a master calendar of work to be done.  Read more

Controlling Legal Costs

By Nancy Rutter |  Feb 1, 1991

Controlling legal fees by requesting detailed bills and other cost-cutting advice.  Read more

Family Business

By Inc. staff |  Jan 1, 1991

Chart illustrating who business owners have chosen to follow in their footsteps.  Read more

World piece

By Inc. staff |  Dec 1, 1990

Granting international distributors exclusive rights.  Read more

People's court

By Inc. staff |  Dec 1, 1990

Handling internal disputes through a formal employee council.  Read more

Recruiting Affiliates

By Tom Richman |  Dec 1, 1990

Creating a network of affiliates to distribute your products and services globally.  Read more

Sign Of The Times

By Martha E. Mangelsdorf |  Dec 1, 1990

Japan announces a series of initiatives to make themselves an 'import superpower.'  Read more