Anita Roddick


Nice Work, if You Can Get It

Editor praises Anita Roddick, founder of The Body Shop.  Read story

This Woman Has Changed Business Forever

The Body Shop mixes business with a devotion to social causes, inspiring both employees and customers.  Read story

When in Rome

A cosmetic retailer sells her wares at a Saudi Arabian bazaar.  Read story

What Do Anita Roddick and Madonna Have in Common?

Both Madonna and Anita Roddick, founder of The Body Shop, fail to have their videos approved for MTV.  Read story

For The Graduate Who Has Everything

Gift ideas for high school graduates.  Read story

Regulation Time: 60 Seconds with... Gordon Roddick

Conversation with Gordon Roddick on overregulation in the U.S. compared to other countries.  Read story

Business World Mourns The Body Shop's Anita Roddick

Roddick used her global chain of cosmetics stores to put social responsibility on the map.  Read story

Going for Broke

Interview with five bootstrappers on the trials of having had too little money to start their businesses.  Read story

What Balance?

A management consultant asks, What would you do if you were forced to choose between business and family?  Read story

Resources

A comprehensive resource guide to many of the subjects featured in the April issue of Inc. magazine.  Read story

Can Business Still Save The World?

Meet the new breed of socially responsible CEOs. They share the goals of activist pioneers like Body Shop cofounder Anita Roddick and Ben Jerry's...  Read story

30 Great Entrepreneurs in Their Own Words

30 years of entrepreneurs speaking their minds  Read story

The Talk of the Inc. 500

Stories, blurbs, and quotes from the ninth annual Inc. 500 conference.  Read story

The Best of Inc.

1. The Coolest Small Company in America Read story

Contributors

For our 30th-anniversary issue, we talked to Inc.'s three longest-tenured employees, as well as two of our newest hires.  Read story

In Memoriam

The notable entrepreneurs who died in 2007 helped to shape some of the major trends in business in the past 50 years, from the rise of socially responsible b...  Read story

Why The Body Shop Stopped Advertising

An anecdote about the Body Shop's first and last ad campaign.  Read story

Jim Collins: How to Thrive in 2009

As part of our 30th-anniversary issue, Inc. asked Jim Collins, author of Good to Great and Built to Last , what we might expect in ...  Read story

Bored With the Board

Reader-to-reader advice.  Read story

The Upstarts Are Coming

In an excerpt from Upstarts! How GenY Entrepreneurs Are Rocking the World of Business and 8 Ways You Can Profit From Their Success , Donna Fenn explo...  Read story

Profits with a Purpose

Roger Hamilton founded XL Group as a way of uniting entrepreneurs around the world with one common goal -- giving back. Why being profitable can also be good...  Read story

What Comes Next?

A best-selling business author tells why products, strategy, and charismatic leadership will become things of the past.  Read story

Strategies: The Don't-Take-It-to-Market Alternative

Sometimes getting smaller is the only way to get bigger.  Read story

It's Not Easy Being Green

Jeffrey Hollender and Alan Newman disagreed about strategy, fought bitterly -- and created two successful companies. They'd set out to change the world, but ...  Read story

Bill Niman’s Next Move

The natural-meat pioneer strikes back with a new company, BN Ranch -- and something to prove  Read story

The Anatomy of a Sale--Ours

Magazines know how to go after a story, but this one came to us. Inc. was recently the focus of a business drama with valuable lessons about what a ...  Read story

The Eight Books to Read Before You Start Your Business

A look at eight books that won't give cut-and-dry answers about how to start a business, but will pose questions that aspiring entrepreneurs should ask thems...  Read story

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