Business Roundtable

CEO Outlook Dips

With slower growth expected in the months ahead, the nation's business leaders were less optimistic about the economy in the second quarter, according to ...  Read more

Best Small Employers Named

A mining company, a financial services firm, and a business consulting group were among top employers named this week in Principal Financial Group's 10 Be...  Read more

The Insider's Guide to Economic Forecasting

Or, How to Get Ahead of the Competition by Becoming Your Own Economist. A well-known economist pulls back the curtain on the indicators he a...  Read more

CEOs Create Disaster-Response Guide

March 23, 2007 -- A taskforce of CEOs has launched a human-resources guide to disaster response to help private sector better prepare for...  Read more

Comerica Bank, Starwood Hotels Launch Credit Cards for Business Owners

A weekly look at the latest products and services designed to help you run a better business.  Read more

CEOs Bullish Despite Katrina

Sept. 23, 2005 --Even as much of the Gulf Coast lay wrecked by Hurricane Katrina, America's business leaders sounded an optimistic outlook...  Read more

Write It Yourself

There's still a market for CEO-tells-all -- if you know how to approach it.  Read more

Another lobbying group will be woring for small business interests in Washington. The American Business Conference, modeled after The Business Roundtable...  Read more

CEOs Expect to Add Workers

June 3, 2004 -- With economic conditions continuing to strengthen, a growing number of chief executives plan on hiring workers by the end...  Read more

Time To Pull The Plug On High Electricity Bills

Small business contributes disproportionately to the revenues of utility companies, and it has only itself to blame.  Read more

Has The NFIB Turned Against McCain's Health Insurance Reform?

That's what the New York Times suggests , anyway. According to a report ...  Read more

This Week's Economic Roundup

Observers predict potential labor shortage; prices at the pump fall for second straight week.  Read more

The Importance of Being Ethical

Companies with strong ethics programs have found that these efforts can reduce potential costly fines, decrease vulnerability, improve reputation, provide...  Read more

New Center to Help Businesses Hit by Katrina

The Urban Entrepreneurship Partnership Gulf Coast will provide training and access to capital for minority business owners.  Read more

Study Finds That Writing is a Critical Business Skill

Sept. 20, 2004 --In its National Commission on Writing report, the College Board found that in today's high-tech economy filled with e-mai...  Read more

Cheat Sheet: Economic Indicators

Well-known economist Gene Sperling reveals his top resources for gauging economic performance in "Read more

Young Workers Lack Savings Plans

A survey gives younger employees failing grades in financial literacy.  Read more

Why There Aren't More Women In This Magazine

Maybe it's because women are creating a business world all their own.  Read more

Tax Reform: Keep More of Your Profit by Doing Business in Ohio

Elimination of taxes on machinery and equipment, rock-bottom rates on gross receipts, tax...  Read more

Big Guys Buy More

Sometimes, the most efficient route to reaching a customer is not the most direct. For instance, the publisher of FamilyEducation Today, a newsletter advi...  Read more

Marketing Through Employers

A newsletter start-up taps consumer markets by piggybacking on large companies.  Read more

SBA Chief Meets with New Orleans Business Owners

Steven Preston heard concerns from African-American entrepreneurs disrupted by Hurricane Katrina.  Read more

McCain Takes Brooklyn

Backstage At A Small Business Roundtable Yesterday John McCain dramatically changed his tune on the housing crisis -- now he's for governmen...  Read more

What's In A Name?

With the profusion of political lables, there is more need than ever for small business to create an identifiable image.  Read more

A Small Businessman In Congress

Berkley Bedell built a thriving company that makes fishing tackle. Then he went to Congress to do something about the state of free enterprise.  Read more

The 1981 Tax Cut: A Tilt To Big Business?

President Reagan's tax reform plans still leave small business at a disadvantage.  Read more

Hanging Tough With Reagan On Taxes

Small business deal makers had to choose between political loyalty to the Administration and attractive offers from Democrats. They made a split decision.  Read more

Health Care For All, Redux (Q&A, Part VI)

Today concludes our series with Bob Graboyes , the senior health care advisor to the Read more

The Making Of The President 1988

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

A Failure To Communicate

Small business may have a special Presidential report, but until some more fundamental changes occur, it will never have much clout with the President.  Read more

(still) Unsafe At Any Speed

Ralph Nader, the man who killed the Corvair, is now organizing buyers' collaboratives to make big-volume purchases from fuel dealers, and spotting the consum...  Read more

The Biggest Kid On The Block

The National Federation of Independent Business has the membership and the money to throw its weight around in Washington.  Read more