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 story

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 story

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 story

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 story

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 story

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 story

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 story

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 story

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 story

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 story

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 story

Hall of Fame Profile: Jim Ansara

By Burt Helm |  Oct 15, 2004

On the importance of growing with your company.  Read story

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 story

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 story

The Inner City 100 Profiles: 81-90

By Leigh Buchanan |  Jun 1, 2006

NO. 81 GimaSport Hartford, Connecticut Sportswear manufacturing Read story

A Tree Grows In Chicago

Aug 1, 1987

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

A Portfolio of Young Business Owners

By Patrick J. Sauer |  Feb 1, 2007

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

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 story

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 story

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 story

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 story

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 story

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 story

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 story

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 story

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 story

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