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Entrepreneurs Mentoring Boston U. Students

A new start-up research laboratory at Boston University will use successful entrepreneurs as live case studies, providing unique mentoring and networking ...  Read story

Biotech Start-up Wins Global Moot Corp

Novophage Theraputics from Boston University hopes to market technology that slows resistence to antibiotics.  Read story

60-Second Business Plan: The Butts Stop Here

How's this for a breathtaking market? The 35-million Americans who try to stop smoking every year.  Read story

Directory of VC and Entrepreneurial Boot Camps

We've compiled a list of boot camps and forums across the country where entrepreneurs interested in acquiring capital are learning to fine-tune business plan...  Read story

I'll Be Watching You

New software makes it possible to monitor employees and clients. It's not as creepy as it sounds.  Read story

As Good As New

Remanufacturing, although an oftignored production strategy, has made some headway in a number of manufacturing arenas. A survey by Robert T. Lund, a res...  Read story

Accentuate the Negative

Knowledge management, the art of mastering the information that lies within your company's walls, involves more than discovering what you know; it's what you...  Read story

Guest Speaker: Neglecting Success

Many groups offer help to young sprouts. Why are the needs of established companies largely ignored?  Read story

The Netty Professor

Marketing professor Bruce Weinberg's study of the online retail experience became something much bigger: a personal obsession with shopping on the Web. Does ...  Read story

Food For Thought: An Inventor's Media Diet

I believe that in order to maintain intellectual integrity, you cannot take in enough input. The difficulty arises when you realize that even relevant inp...  Read story

Best Of The Trade Press

Recent trends from various trade journals.  Read story

Bottom-up Management

INC. 500 CEO George Labovitz runs a small company that helps large companies manage their people more effectively. At a time when productivity is the most im...  Read story

Lessons Learned

It is unfortunate that all of your readers could not listen in person to George Labovitz relaying his organizational behavior war stories. While reading ...  Read story

Getting The Information You Need

Just about any fact you need for your business is available from a computerized data bank at a reasonable cost.  Read story

Brains For Hire

Each year, countless professionals leave their corporate jobs to become consultants. But launching a consultancy is a lot harder than you might think.  Read story

How I Did It: Richard Burke, Chairman, Trek Bicycle

Pulling away from the pack.  Read story

Relax. Let Your Guard Down

Why patents, trademarks, and other intellectual property protections are bad--that's right, bad --for business.  Read story

Ready, Willing, and Able

Reader-to-reader advice.  Read story

Remanufacturing

Related Terms: Recycling Remanufacturing is a process wher...  Read story

Making It

The changing American economy; a manufacturing company adopts Japanese quality control methods.  Read story

Money Guru

Want to hire a money guru? Maybe you should answer some questions first.  Read story

Get Smart

Should your company be doing knowledge management? Many companies are profiting from combining business processes with technology to create a collective corp...  Read story

Under Siege

One CEO's battle to save his small public company from a hostile takeover.  Read story

Smog Lifters

There are people out there who are even more information deluged than you are. Eleven of the smartest--and most beleaguered--reveal their personal regimens f...  Read story

On Second Thought

We throw away all sorts of things -- automobiles, washing machines, air conditioners. The apostles of remanufacturing believe we can pick up the pieces and p...  Read story

Creating Growth Paths

Turnaround Update Company: Lau Technologies, Littleton, Mass. Founded: 1990 ...  Read story

Somebody's Watching You

Googled yourself lately? Then you know it's nearly impossible to keep anything hidden anymore.  Read story

Lords Of The Rings

What has $2 million in sequins and feathers, loads 11 flatcars in an hour and a half, and thrills 7 million people? Ringling Bros. is actually a very serious...  Read story

The Tokyo Connection

The ramifications of small high-tech companies looking to Japan to fund their development.  Read story

Hot Start-Ups

It's easy to forget that the best new business ideas are often the simplest. Here are 10 start-ups that will have you wondering, "Why didn't I think of that?"  Read story

King Of Clubs

In an industry where the deck is stacked against success, Patrick Lyons keeps drawing a full house.  Read story

He Led Three Lives

Even in the best of circumstances, CEOs have a hard time holding on to their talented people. Skip Vaccarello kept his team together through three changes of...  Read story

What's Wrong With This Picture? Nothing!

You've never met a man more obsessed with service than Dawson Rutter.  Read story

A Time for Leadership

The economic toll from the terrorist attacks could worsen -- unless businesspeople take steps right now to ensure that their companies can weather the crisis.  Read story

Educating Octavia

Woman entrepreneur seeks help in educating herself on the logistics of food production and marketing.  Read story

The Language of Business

Apart from traditional accounting, a CEO works out his own equations for success.  Read story

Uneasy Rider

John Healy, CEO of Coventry Spares Ltd., realized that the year 2000 bug would paralyze his antiquated computer system. Here's how he brought his motorcycle-...  Read story

Power Trips

Some company owners exercise their imaginations not only in the office but out of it. What's striking about their vacations is not where they went, but why.  Read story

Registry: Who's Who in Small-Business Research

Sixteen thumbnail sketchs of the country's leading small-business economists, complete with e-mail addresses.  Read story

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