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Europeans Don't Buy " Dot-Com"

You think dot-com is king? That may be so in the Anglo-American world, but if you want to do e-business in Europe, you should really think of getting a Eu...  Read story

Selling Themselves Down The River

When its dealers do a better job, Jayco Inc. send s them packing. Jayco, a $40-million maker of recreational vehicles in Middlebury, Ind., runs a travel i...  Read story

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Cutting Costs When Staying in Other Countries

Most consolidators and hotel discount directories cover international as well as domestic locations. You may want to collect several directories to optimi...  Read story

How I Did It: Wolfgang Puck

The famed chef and restaurateur Wolfgang Puck of Spago in Hollywood reveals how he built his culinary empire  Read story

Flight Club

Forget the company car. Getting around is faster--and less expensive than you may think--in a private plane.  Read story

Snow Sports Without the Snow

If you're into winter sports but would rather skip the white stuff, consider these summer activities.  Read story

Where to Go for Help: Europe

Albania Teuleda http://www.teuleda.org.al/index.php?gjuha=eng <...  Read story

The Kindest Cut

Competition has sparked a global decline in corporate taxes.  Read story

It Only Looks Easy

He's the cool boss, the take-a-year-off-to-snowboard guy, the company owner who leads by doing only what he loves. But he's also an intense and talented busi...  Read story

King Ink

Tattoos are everywhere. But the tattoo business has yet to outgrow its outlaw roots. Mario Barth aims to change that. His goal: to build the Starbucks of tat...  Read story

Remembering Eugene Kleiner

Remembering Eugene Kleiner, the pioneering venture capitalist and co-founder of Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers  Read story

How To Grow Without Getting Big

At Magna International, when you get to 200 employees, it's time to start a new company.  Read story

Customer Service;

With the almost evangelical emphasis these days on staying close to the customer, a key question for any chief executive officer has to be how his or her ...  Read story

Network: February 1991

Network new queries.  Read story

The Entrepreneurial Mystique

Almost all of the conventional wisdom about entrepreneurship, says Peter Drucker, is dead wrong. Entrepreneurship is nothing more than a discipline and, like...  Read story

The Defiant Ones

Europe has concluded that it must work harder to recognize and nurture growth businesses, and what that means to you.  Read story

Saying No to Outsourcing

Valentin Gapontsev hated depending on suppliers. So he did away with them.  Read story

Go East, Young Man

First-person account of a joint venture in Eastern Europe.  Read story

Brand in the Making

If all goes well under James Prosek's ambitious business plan, he will be elevated from mere fish aficionado to standard-bearer for an entire way of life. Pl...  Read story

"It's Going to Be Big"

Marc Ecko always had the dream. Over time -- it wasn't easy -- he developed the skills. Here, he talks about how he got smart, why his billion-dollar clothin...  Read story

Northward, Ho!

The new trade agreement between the United States and Canada could touch off a small-business export boom  Read story

Winning in the Asian Era

The U.S. must take a new commerce perspective in regard to the changes taking place in the world economy.  Read story

The New Entrepreneurial Elite

Lured by enormous compensation packages and the excitement of fast growth, many big-company executives are leaving cushy positions to run start-ups.  Read story

European Union (EU)

The European Union (EU), formerly known as the European Community (EC), was formed in the 1950s to encourage and oversee political and economic cooperatio...  Read story

When Peter Drucker Speaks

In a review of Drucker's new book, "The World According to Peter Drucker," Speaker of the House Gingrich explains why Drucker is the most influential writer ...  Read story

History of a Business Pioneer

Peter Drucker: Shaping the Managerial Mind, by John E. Flaherty. Jossey Bass, 1999, 420 pages, $27. Peter Drucker...  Read story

Guest Speaker: Mapping the Entrepreneurial Psyche

What leads a person to start a company? "The impulse...to prove oneself superior to others."  Read story

Wine Sellers

How Don Zacharia turned a mom-and-pop liquor store into a wine-retailing juggernaut -- and a family business that works.  Read story

Turning the Tables

The outsourcing trend almost killed Kalexsyn--until its founders made globalization work in their favor.  Read story

Case Study: Gambling You Can Turn Around a Business

Micky McDonald ran Westbeach for 5 years. Then the company went bankrupt. Was it time to walk away--or buy it?  Read story

How I Did It: George Naddaff

From Spit 'n' Shine Boy To Boston Chicken and Beyond.  Read story

Entrepreneur of the Year: Ping Fu

She came to this country by way of a Chinese prison, but that's the past, and the future holds a tantalizing promise of smarter, cheaper manufacturing and be...  Read story

This Is Rocket Science

Paul Moller may have been working on his flying car for nearly four decades, but he's no crackpot. His saga is a road map of how to keep a dream moving ahead...  Read story

French Twist

No one coddles employees like the French, right? Well, you may be surprised. The table at right lists the cost of firing workers, including mandatory severan...  Read story

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