Bangladesh


Reach Out and Touch Bangladesh

By Jerry Useem |  Nov 27, 1997

Chamurkhan, Bangladesh - Mosammat Anwara Begum has three moneymaking enterprises here in the rural hinterlands of Bangladesh: her chickens, her ducks, and...  Read more

Bootstrap Banking

By David Osborne |  Aug 1, 1987

For decades, the federal government has tried in vain to bring entrepreneurship to the poor. Now, a small Chicago bank may have found the answer in -- of all...  Read more

Country Profiles

Feb 1, 2001

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Enterprise Loans

By Charles Nelson |  Dec 1, 1987

I enjoyed your article on "Bootstrap Banking" (August). The Grameen Bank model used in Bangladesh has been successful in many other countries: Malaysia, ...  Read more

Financing and Where to Find It

Finding financing is a more complicated matter than during the dot-com years when money seemed to flow freely for any good idea that c...  Read more

SaaS, SAS70, and Firing Your IT Guy

By Curt Finch |  Feb 21, 2008

Installing software is becoming passe'. Increasingly people are finding what they want out there on servers on the internet. But how can you be sure you...  Read more

Financing: Where to Find It

By Lisa Chadderdon |  Feb 20, 2001

The hunt for financing is on. Only a year ago, venture capitalists seemed willing to throw money at just about any dot-com business plan. But funding toda...  Read more

EntrepreneurshipWeek USA Kicks Off with Workshops, Networking Opportunities

By Angus Loten |  Feb 27, 2007

The first-ever educational event is designed to promote business ownership among high-school and college students.  Read more

Financing: Where to Find It

Feb 1, 2006

Finding financing is a more complicated matter than during the dot-com years when money seemed to flow freely for any good idea that crossed the transom. Tod...  Read more

Genius in Our Midst

By Mike Hofman |  Sep 20, 2006

The MacArthur Foundation announced yesterday the list of its 2006 fellows, who are sometimes referred to as the recipients of "genius" grants. As has been...  Read more

A Network of Her Own

By D.M. Osborne |  Sep 1, 2000

Women who are entrepreneurs have always found it tougher to raise money than their male counterparts have. New kinds of support and a new breed of investor a...  Read more

Risk Factors

By Martha E. Mangelsdorf |  Dec 1, 2001

A checklist of potential trouble spots that seasoned CEOs are watching as they head into the new year.  Read more

Traditional Media Advertising: We Will Miss You, After All

By Renee Oricchio |  Apr 12, 2009

Unless you've just returned from Mars; you are probably aware that the newspaper business is dying. Television news isn't doing so hot, either. I...  Read more

Saving the World, One Purchase at a Time

By Drew Armstrong |  Nov 10, 2006

How would you like to buy a jacket and help save the planet? From Patagonia to Starbucks to a would-be Google-killer, forward-thinking companies are making p...  Read more

Search: December 2002

By Inc. Staff |  Dec 1, 2002

Any book calling itself Business: The Ultimate Resource has a lot to live up to.  Read more

Hall of Fame Profile: Jim Ansara

By Burt Helm |  Oct 15, 2004

On the importance of growing with your company.  Read more

Microfinance Goes Back to Its Roots?

By Tamara Schweitzer |  Aug 1, 2008

Major leaders of the global microfinance movement gathered this week at the Microcredit Summit Campa...  Read more

Report Casts Doubt on Giving Small Loans to Poor Entrepreneurs

By Angus Loten |  Jul 6, 2007

Global microfinance programs may not help reduce overall poverty in the developing world, new research shows.  Read more

Making the Travelers' Century Club, Times Two

By John Grossmann |  Sep 1, 2001

Dick Matland, president of Coronado Shores Co., has traveled to enough destinations to qualify for the Travelers' Century Club two times over.  Read more

Shrinking Angels Funds and a Memorable Coffee Bust

By Ryan McCarthy |  Feb 3, 2009

If only Norm Brodsky got to him in time. On Slate today, there's a great cautionary tale ab...  Read more

Hiring Your Own Don Draper; Improving Your Online Rep

By Nitasha Tiku |  Oct 2, 2009

How much does it cost to hire real life Mad Men . As much as $964 an hour, according to Advertising Age, which Read more

The Inner City 100 Profiles: 81-90

By Leigh Buchanan |  Jun 1, 2006

NO. 81 GimaSport Hartford, Connecticut Sportswear manufacturing Read more

Google Co-Founder Gives Graduation Speech

By Max Chafkin |  May 3, 2005

Larry Page, co-founder of uber-search engine Google, gave the keynote address at the University of Michigan's Colleg...  Read more

A Tree Grows In Chicago

Aug 1, 1987

How South Shore Bank revived an inner-city neighborhood  Read more

A Portfolio of Young Business Owners

By Patrick J. Sauer |  Feb 1, 2007

Meet six students who have already taken the entrepreneurial leap.  Read more

Company Lore

By Jeffrey L. Seglin |  Aug 1, 1999

Reviews of six new business books. Includes tall tales about the launch of Home Depot and IKEA; ways to motivate your hottest employees; and the inspirationa...  Read more

Profits with a Purpose

By Tamara Schweitzer |  Dec 12, 2007

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 more

America's Favorite Hometown Businesses

By Leigh Buchanan |  Jul 1, 2002

When it comes to businesses that are charming, idiosyncratic, and lovable, Main Street still has a monopoly. To celebrate America's great unsung small compan...  Read more

Everybody Wants to Save the World

By Dalia Fahmy |  Dec 1, 2007

But when you start a charity overseas, good intentions often go awry  Read more

Buy The Numbers

By Richard Kreisman |  Mar 1, 1985

John Malec and Gerry Eskin had a great idea for a new company. All they had to do was what no marketing-research firm had ever done before.  Read more

Is the Internet Doomed?

By Charles C. Mann |  Jun 15, 1995

A close up look at some of the problems businesses should consider before they start using the Internet.  Read more

Lucky Junki

By John Brant |  Oct 1, 2004

He has 20 thriving companies, a fourth-degree black belt, and a plan -- always a plan. Which is why this former Japanese gang leader is a teriyaki-sauce-maki...  Read more

It's Not the Same America

By Edward O. Welles |  May 1, 1994

Barriers to succeeding in business include regulation, special interests, protectionism, access to capital and welfare.  Read more

French Twist

By Inc. Staff |  Jun 1, 2006

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 more

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