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THEY DON'T ALL LOOK LIKE BOY Scouts, not with their skateboards and their bristled Mohawk haircuts. Turning skateboard freaks into Boy Scouts was th...  Read more

Organizational (work)style

What gives workstyle its coherence is the company's values, an often implicit set of principles by which the company runs itselt ("Workstyle," January). T...  Read more

Tips From A Banker

Fewer than 10% of prospective borrowers come to a bank adequately prepared. And bankers haven't the time to dig for the facts they need. Unfortunately, t...  Read more

How to Communicate in a Crisis

A guide to emerging with reputation intact after a crisis threatens your company  Read more

The Other Pin Drops

Robert Putnam, former dean of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, talks about the Internet and our sense of community.  Read more

High Noon In Soda Springs;

Recently, the LBO team from Weiss, Peck & Greer engineered a deal so manifestly benevolent that a troop of Eagle Scouts turned out to honor it. Here's...  Read more

Lessons from Google's Eric Schmidt

Learning from Google's IPO. In the six years since Google's went public, its stock price has gone from $85 to $581, and it has become one of the mo...  Read more

A Cutting Description

Your article about Delmar Skate Park ("[Boy] Scouting for Liability Insurance," Insider, February) stated, "They don't all look like Boy Scouts, not with ...  Read more

How to Incorporate Badges Into Your Website

Companies such as Foursquare, Stack Overflow, and ThredUP reward customers with virtual merit badges.  Read more

The Entrepreneurial Year in Review

For some industries -- finance and retail, we're looking at you -- this was a year of living dangerously. But plenty of companies had a big year. A look at t...  Read more

Yankee Doodle Dandy

Entrepreneurship and innovation make our business culture worth celebrating. But they pose challenges, too  Read more

Dream Weavers

These entrepreneurs built thriving companies. Better yet, they are free to live out their very own fantasies  Read more

Seven Rules for Legal Advertising

Advertising is regulated by both federal and state law. Under the law, your ad is unlawful if it tends to mislead or deceive. This means the government do...  Read more

The Ethics of Bootstrapping

Founder of Intuit discusses the pressure to cut ethical corners when a company's survival is at stake.  Read more

Seven Steps to Heaven

Funding for entrepreneurial businesses has completely dried up, right? Wrong. Angel investors -- long a tried-and-true source of capital for young businesses...  Read more

The Smart CEO's Reading List

Short reviews of business books recommended for the CEO.  Read more

Screening For The Best Employees

There is hardly a chief executive officer around these days who doesn't swear, often publicly, that employees are a company's most important asset. In pr...  Read more

Parallel Lives

Bill Gates has a golf handicap in the double digits. And so does Ronald Harland! Tom Monaghan launched his pizza empire in Michigan. And Lisa St...  Read more

Obits: Cold Feet Squash Minority-Supplier Site

Despite high-profile supporters and millions in seed capital, an online exchange for minority suppliers to the auto industry couldn't figure out how to make ...  Read more

Giving Back as a Company

At Torch Technologies, employees run and fund a nonprofit that gives charity donations.  Read more

Nice Guys Finish First

Profiles of the four runners-up for "Best-managed Franchises in America."  Read more

Upstarts: Obsession Marketing

Taking their cue from the Beanie Babies mania, some start-ups hope to create the next big consumer fad. Plus: Q A with the man responsible for impo...  Read more

Launch a New Product on Twitter

While Facebook is good for building long-term customer relationships, businesses are finding that Twitter can be great for quickly building momentum for, say...  Read more

The Foundation for Doing Good

Marriott and Patagonia may have wildly different histories and CEOs with little in common, but both represent the corporation as a tool for social change.  Read more

Main Street, Inc.

Forget rebel, forget misfit, forget poor boy makes good. A new study shatters old myths about the entrepreneur.  Read more

Changing How The Game Is Played

Bringing space-age technology to the world of sporting goods lets tiny Worth Sports Co. leapfrog its giant competitors and capture a new market  Read more

The Buck Stopped Here

Soaring business costs in California were driving Buck Knives to the brink. The company regained its edge by dismantling its factory--and putting it back tog...  Read more

Bringing Back a Classic

In 1973, Betty Morris founded Shrinky Dinks. In the 1980s, they became ubiquitous. And now, the entrepreneur has finally found a way to really profit from them.  Read more

Lessons of a Bottom Feeder

Dave Morse has turned his most basic of businesses - community newspapers - into a success.  Read more

Name-calling

What the name of your company and products says about you and your business.  Read more

The Two-year, Three-product, Nine-million-dollar Turnaround

STORY PROPOSAL Bill Sadleir made enough mistakes to sink several companies. He was naive, had the wrong product, and spent several million dollars ...  Read more

Workstyle

A growing number of business owners are adopting a whole new approach to managing their people.  Read more

Share the Wealth, Spoil the Child

Children of successful entrepreneurs discuss the advantages and disadvantages of growing up wealthy.  Read more