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Identifying the Customer-Focused Executive

By Don Peppers |  Aug 7, 2002

Whether CEO, CMO, or CCO (chief customer officer), relationship-savvy execs have a lot in common.  Read story

New Talents Ltd.

Sep 1, 1983

Entrepreneurs don't grow on trees, and relatively few come out of business schools, either. Lately, however, there have been signs of a new blossoming of ...  Read story

Brand Marketing: The Dos and Don'ts of Naming

By Stephanie L. Gruner |  Mar 1, 1996

A marketing expert explains why the name of your company is so critical in making a good first impression.  Read story

How Now, Ed Zschau?

By Hal Plotkin |  Dec 1, 1988

One CEO's desire to build a company and then run for Senate.  Read story

Birth Of An Industry;

By David E. Gumpert and Stanley R. Rich |  Nov 1, 1987

"Industry" births have come easy to the 1980s: personal computing, robotics, biotech. All flared; some, at least momentarily, have fizzled; and now much ...  Read story

Bypassing the Bank

By Bruce G. Posner |  Jan 1, 1994

A builder finds an alternative to bank loans: a private construction loan pool funded by local individuals.  Read story

Small Company Initial Public Offerings: June 1985

Sep 1, 1985

Note: This table may be divided, and additional information on a particular entry may appear on more than one screen. 0ffering O-T-C ...  Read story

Trend: Sales-Force Automation

By Sarah Schafer |  Jul 1, 2000

Various businesspeople tell how they have turned to sales-force automation.  Read story

Letters

By Inc Staff |  Jun 1, 1999

Readers react to articles from the March 1999 issue of Inc., including Jill Andresky Fraser's "How to Finance Anything," Harriet Rubin's "Solo Diaries," and ...  Read story

Making the Switch

By Ilan Mochari |  Sep 15, 2000

When a high-tech trend threatened the future of his business, Michael Edell radically reshaped his company. Two years later, he's suffered record losses and ...  Read story

Pay as You Glow

By Leslie Brokaw |  Jan 1, 1991

Electricity cooperative creates debit-card devices for electric meters.  Read story

Natural Partners

By Joel Kotkin |  Jun 1, 1989

New businesses create a major trend by forming partnerships with established companies.  Read story

Striking Out on Your Own

By Carole Matthews |  Oct 30, 2002

Though going solo can be liberating, it can also be a frustrating experience. Here Inc.com offers resources to help combat some of the challenges of being se...  Read story

Requiem For A Heavyweight

By C. R. W. |  May 1, 1983

At first glance, the competition for Olympics licenses looked like a race, so we called our article on the subject, "The Race for Olympic Profits" (INC., ...  Read story

Public Companies: $156,000 At The Top

Jul 1, 1981

Executives of smaller publicly held companied enjoy fatter paychecks and broader perks than their counterparts in smaller private firms. That's the concl...  Read story

The 50 Most Active Venture Capitalists

Sep 1, 1981

Note: This table may be divided, and additional information on a particular entry may appear on more than one screen. Time from first contact ...  Read story

The Return Of Billy Jack

By Lucien Rhodes |  Dec 1, 1987

Tom Laughlin has set out to do for videocassettes what Amway did for household products and Domino's did for pizza  Read story

Venture Capital: Weeding Out The Weak

Mar 1, 1983

Back in the 1950s, Richard J. Riordan began investing in what he considered high-risk ventures. He put his money (80% of it borrowed, a stock market margi...  Read story

Case Study: Was Outsourcing to India the Right Move?

By Darren Dahl |  Jan 1, 2006

With revenue flattening, David Galbenski needed a bold new plan.  Read story

The Making Of The President 1988

By Joel Kotkin |  Nov 1, 1984

THERE IS A RISING GENERATION OF POLITICAL LEADERS -- IN BOTH PARTIES -- THAT IS LOOKING TO SHAPE A WHOLE NEW POLITICS OF GROWTH.  Read story

Let A Thousand Flowers Bloom

By Eugene Linden |  Apr 1, 1984

Some of America's biggest corporations are discovering that their future may depend on thinking small.  Read story

The Mystery of The Blood Red Ledger

By Samuel Fromartz |  Apr 1, 2001

CEO Fred LeFranc quickly realized that something was poisoning the profits at Louise's Trattoria, and he didn't have long to find out what.  Read story

Group Think

By Anne Field |  Sep 15, 1996

A look at how groupware allows small-company employees to work simultaneously, saving both time and money.  Read story

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