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Recent Articles about Cedar Rapids

The Inner City 100

100 street-smart companies.  Read more

Digital Inc: Going Mobile

Investing in a wireless network slashed inventory errors at one electronics distributor. Better yet, it turned warehouse workers into high-tech innovators.  Read more

Digital Inc: Going Mobile

Investing in a wireless network slashed inventory errors at one electronics distributor. Better yet, it turned warehouse workers into high-tech innovators.  Read more

Van Meter Industrial: Barry Boyer

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Out of the Ordinary

Profile of an Inc. 500 CEO who turned around a no-growth roofing business.  Read more

Nation's Top 10 Small Employers Announced

The annual Principal Financial rankings highlight the best small businesses for employee financial security.  Read more

Make Them Pay!

Dealing with a client deadbeat; the pros and cons of operating in Mexico; a twist on the personal asset loan guarantee.  Read more

The Inner City 100 Profiles: 41-50

NO. 41 ExecuScribe Rochester, New York Transcription services Read more

Network: November 1991

Network reader-to-reader advice.  Read more

Legacy: Frank N. Magid

The creator of Action News transformed local newscasts  Read more

Exceptions To The Rule

Why some INC. 500 companies are growing in industries that aren't.  Read more

After-School Special

The Great America Leasing Corporation is giving back to the community by using its outdated computers to set up an educational computer center for children.  Read more

After-School Special

The Great America Leasing Corporation is giving back to the community by using its outdated computers to set up an educational computer center for children.  Read more

How to Make New Employees Feel at Home

To get new workers up to speed quickly, Van Meter Industrial employs a four-step onboarding process.  Read more

Managing People;

If you want your people to focus on performance, you've got to figure out an effective way to tell them how the company is doing. Jay Johnson lets his pe...  Read more

Are You Rich Yet?

Their wealth may look enormous on paper, but Inc 500 CEOs generally don't describe themselves as rich. You may disagree.  Read more

The New Rules of Hiring

If you're adding staff for the first time in years, there are a few hiring practices you should get hip to – and it's not just behavioral interviewing anym...  Read more

Iowa Entrepreneurs Decide, Part II: Immigration

Immigration was clearly the chief preoccupation of our group of small business people. But if the emotional debate over America's newest arrivals often hi...  Read more

Hot Spots

INC.'s annual ranking of America's cities  Read more

Letters

Readers react to articles from the April and May 2000 issues of Inc. , including "The Case for Higher Prices" and "The Art of the Deal," by Norm Brod...  Read more

Sarah the CEO?

On the campaign trail, Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin is quick to tout her "executive experience" -- including what she says is her backgro...  Read more

HOW THE CITIES WERE RANKED Like our annual states report, this ranking of metropolitan areas is based on three factors: job generation, rate of significan...  Read more

When Quality Isn't Everything

Great Midwestern Ice Cream produces a private-label product for supermarkets.  Read more

Hot Cities, Hot Sites

The cover story of the December 2000 issue of Inc. magazine, " Best Cities to Start and ...  Read more

Raising the Stakes

Bruegger's Bagels gives its cluster managers more autonomy and a percentage of profits.  Read more

Regional Entrepreneurs of the Year

A list of 1992's Regional Entrepreneurs of the Year.  Read more

Good Neighbors

The secret to General Growth's top performance in the REIT business: John Bucksbaum knows how to make competing tenants accept one another. Any c...  Read more

Shoringup The Credits

In the high-powered world of equipment finance, one small company has found a different way to play the leasing game.  Read more

Growing Your Business by Going Global

Lessons from a company that leapt unwarily into foreign-distribution, plus intelligence on Saudi Arabian markets.  Read more

What Ever Happened to the Class of 1983?

Profile of Inc. 500 companies from 1983.  Read more

#8 TEMPS & CO. WASHINGTON, D.C. Many INC. 500 companies are wife-and-husband teams, but so far as we can tell, this is the only sister-brother c...  Read more

The Most Entrepreneurial Cities in America

Inc.'s 1990 ranking of metropolitan regions by job growth, business starts, and proportion of high-growth companies.  Read more

The 500

#13 APPLIED SYSTEMS INC. UNIVERSITY PARK, ILL. You saw it in the stock market. You've seen it in the merger-and-acquisition activity. ...  Read more

The Private 500 represent 44 states. Geographically, the West wins again on the strength of California's 84 companies -- more than twice as many as any ot...  Read more

The Parent Trap

The personal costs of borrowing start-up capital from parents.  Read more

Hot Spots

Summary of metropolitan economies for 1989; the most growth was seen in the 'edge cities', where cattle once grazed.  Read more

Hot Zones

A look at the best cities in America for starting and growing a business. Plus: CEOs discuss their reasons for locating their business where they did.  Read more

The Inc. 500

Note: This table may be divided, and additional information on a particular entry may appear on more than one screen. Sales growth 1980-84 ...  Read more