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The Dangers of E-mail

E-Policy: How to Develop Computer, E-Policy, and Internet Guidelines to Protect Your Company and Its Assets by Michel R. Overly. AM...  Read story

Refined Taste

Companies benchmark innovators all the time: Microsoft, Ben & Jerry's, Toyota, and Southwest Airlines all do it. But Bob Davis, CEO of Davis Cos., has ide...  Read story

Brief Profiles of Inc. 500 Companies

A collection of 24 short articles about companies from the 1997 Inc. 500.  Read story

Free At Last

Life in the business world is full of surprises. Had anyone suggested to us a few years ago that we'd be better off putting our small-but-growing venture...  Read story

The Two L's of Legal Compliance: Leadership and Learning

The U.S. Supreme Court has articulated its mandate to employers: Not only is a policy prohibitingharassment and discrimination in the workplace required, ...  Read story

One Dozen Powerful Strategies for Avoiding Thieves, Spies, Con-Artists, and...

As we tell clients, if it's out on the street, it's in your workplace. If there are people "out there" who are abusive, harassing, discriminatory, violent...  Read story

Going Green Isn't Just about Doing Good

It's also smart business for a lot of companies on the Inc. 5000, Inc. magazine's list of the fastest-growing private companies in America.    Read story

Going Green Isn't Just about Doing Good, inc5000 Article - Inc. Article

Ray Mullen, founder and CEO of Idaho-based Mullen Crane and Transport, says the trick to his business is providing cranes for use in the hot industry of t...  Read story

The Inc. 100 Portfolio;

* Six INC. 100 chief executive officers once worked for IBM Corp. * Symbion Inc. (#43), which makes the Jarvik-7 artificial heart and other artifici...  Read story

Taking the Ethical Route to Business Success

A Better Way to Think about Business by Robert C. Solomon Oxford University Press, 1999, 240 pages, $23.50 Bu...  Read story

Confessions of an Information Sinner

With his first business, Ron Bienvenu overloaded his newsletter subscribers with reams of extraneous information. Now his software system, SageMaker, sends o...  Read story

The Price/earnings Ratio: Time For A Second Look

A company's profits may not be the best indicator of investment value.  Read story

Will Algae Make Green for Small Businesses?

Algae-based biofuel may finally have real market value as an innovative alternative fuel.  Read story

Group Names Top Corporations for Women's Business Enterprises

March 24, 2005 --The Women's Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC) released its list of America’s top corporations for women's bu...  Read story

Main Street: Tex Rx

You might guess that a drugstore with a star-studded clientele would be in Hollywood or New York City. But you wouldn't even be close.  Read story

Burning Ambition

Profile and analysis of a start-up manufacturer of waste oil and trash converters.  Read story

Let's Shake on It

The handshake deal embodies the best of our culture. Unfortunately, it can leave open the door for the worst.  Read story

S.a.y. Hey

S.A.Y. Industries Inc., headquartered in Leominster, Mass., manufactures and markets patented polyethylene bottles for motor oil and other products. Altho...  Read story

City Of The Future

Its factories have moved to exurbia. As a financial center, it has fallen behind. But a burgeoning class of 'white-collar artisans' may soon make this the ri...  Read story

Where Is Your Business On the Insistence Scale?

Customers always had, and always will have, choices. Dissatisfaction with goods and services results in spending migration, compounded with ease of access to...  Read story

What's Next: Don't Get Brobecked

In tough times, managing your lawyer is key.  Read story

To Bankruptcy and Back

The intimate story of one company that emerged from Chapter 11  Read story

Building a Global Network

Who you need to know and how to find them.  Read story

How Bribery and Other Types of Corruption Threaten the Global Marketplace

In Turkey, the apartment buildings that collapse during earthquakes are known as "bribe buildings." In Africa, bridges dot the landscape with no roads to con...  Read story

Beyond The Magaloans

Fixed-rate loans from insurance companies; a new direction in management buyouts; a Dutch treat for U.S. entrepreneurs  Read story

#49, W-b Pump Supply Co.-1,451%

"I can walk down the street in Casper, Wyoming," says Texan Ronald Hess, "and I'm bound to run into somebody I know.The oil business is really a relativel...  Read story

What It Costs To Run An Airline

While the strategy of marching capacity to demand using five airplane types seems simple enough, the plan could have expensive implications. What do you d...  Read story

The Innovation Factor: Innovative Minds

Who innovates? A look at the personalities (and brains) behind America's most creative businesses.  Read story

(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 story

A Niche In Time

Faced with changing technology and an overcrowded market, Sky Courier Network realized that it had to fly off in different directions.  Read story

Burnout

How three founders changed their management style and made running their companies fun again  Read story

Upstarts: The Russian Connection

Entrepreneurs who've emigrated from the former Soviet Union are shrewdly benefiting from the crumbling economy of that once-mighty empire. And they aren't th...  Read story

Franchise Capital Of America

In Rocky Mount, N.C., fast food is big business. But the Boddie brothers' 208-outlet empire hasn't lost the founders' touch.  Read story

A Whole New World

How Mosaica Education made the jump from the inner city to the Middle East.  Read story

But Will They Still Love Your Tomorrow?

Long-term client relationships depend on marketing personal service before and after a sale.  Read story

How I Did It: Margot Fraser

Margot Fraser, the founder of Birkenstock, USA, recalls 40 years of peace, love, and clunky sandals  Read story

The Conversion Of Skip Kelly

Last summer, Skip Kelley was running a small-time home-remodeling business. Then he found Mr. Build.  Read story

Going Public

Profile of a company going public and the costs and benefits that apply.  Read story

It Takes All Kinds

Herb Stokes knows how to make diversity work for his $6-million company. Now he's on a mission to make it work for the rest of corporate America as well.  Read story

Brief Profiles of Inc. 500 Companies

A collection of 27 short articles about companies from the 1998 Inc. 500.  Read story

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