Columbia

Telling a Good Story

You may have the greatest company in the world. But if you don't know how to convey that to customers, you may as well not exist.  Read more

Wish You Were Here?

8 Amazing boat trips around the world.  Read more

Negotiating Better Licensing Deals

Pharmaceuticals company strikes international deals and negotiates supply, manufacturing, and licensing agreements.  Read more

Expecting The Unexpected

Pharmaceutical company creates a popular long-lasting chewing gum while working on a training experiment.  Read more

Busting The Trustbusters

Independent businesspeople voted in droves for Ronald Reagan. Now Reagan proposes that fewer businesspeople be independent.  Read more

A Leg Up from the Bank

One company offers its employees a package of discounted and free banking services.  Read more

Creation Nation

Wondering where the next hot food ... hit toy ... big band ... miracle drug will come from? Chances are, from entrepreneurs just like you who are furiously c...  Read more

How I Did It: Gert Boyle, chairman, Columbia Sportswear

Tougher than the rest.  Read more

Go, Sell It On The Mountain

Columbia Data Products Inc. is trying to move the marketing of microcomputers to a higher plane -- like, say, 21,000 feet above sea level. The company has...  Read more

Lowering Drug- and Alcohol-Testing Costs

Lowering the cost of testing employees for drugs and alcohol.  Read more

The Best Viral Marketing

Viral marketing is all the rage but, as many companies are finding, it's hard to pull off. And even if a campaign draws considerable traffic, that's no gu...  Read more

Small Company Initial Public Offerings: January 1984

Offering O-T-C Size Price sym. Company Business/product ($ m...  Read more

Small Company Initial Public Offerings: February March 1984

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

The New Northwest Passage

Hit hard by imports, aggressive Oregon businesses have discovered how to make the doors of Japanese trade swing both ways.  Read more

Inc.com Daily | Entrepreneur News

Fake Prada bags, a Twitter acquisition, a new college app, and more.  Read more

Geraldine Laybourne on Work and Family

I'm always impressed by business schools' women-in-business conferences. They must be among the most well-organized functions on the planet. How B-school ...  Read more

Return of Giants

Is Hollywood edging out small companies and returning to the studio-dominated days of yesteryear?  Read more

Darla Moore's Full-Court Press

During a 1996 New York Knicks game, spectator Darla Moore caught a wild pass from midcourt. Instead of throwing it back to the ref, she tried to make the ...  Read more

Reining In Office Rumors

Shutting down the company rumor mill. Plus: Finding sales talent; curing the PO box blues.  Read more

Finding the Right Partner

A pharmaceutical company formed international partnerships to reach foreign markets.  Read more

Deals On Reels

For years, high-rolling investors risked big bucks and took even bigger tax write-offs in complex and sometimes shaky movie-financing arrangements. The In...  Read more

Columbia Grad Wins $100,000 in Seed Capital

A Columbia Business School graduate this week was awarded $100,000 in seed funding to develop a line of biodegradable plates, cups, and bowls, school offi...  Read more

The Education Of A Small Businessperson

It is that loveliest time of the year on college campuses -- commencement -- a good season to think about how critical our colleges and universities will ...  Read more

Flight Club

Forget the company car. Getting around is faster--and less expensive than you may think--in a private plane.  Read more

Northward, Ho!

The new trade agreement between the United States and Canada could touch off a small-business export boom  Read more

McCainomics: A Stimulating Speech

Yesterday John McCain, harvesting votes in South Carolina, offered his vision of an economic stimulus package: a tax cut triple play. But while the plan s...  Read more

Contributors

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Getting to the Conference: Gary Pudles

One of the great things about the Inc. 500 conference is the friendships you build with other Inc. 500 CEOs and executives. This week I was at a call cen...  Read more

Quick Picks

Out this month: a new release from rocker Lou Reed, a hefty biography of Alexander Hamilton, and a DVD boxed set on America's favorite pastime.  Read more

Bell Ringer

Koch's piece was the best damned business article I have ever read. And coming from an inveterate Harvard person, it's even better. The people I have mos...  Read more

Trade Shows

A trade show is an event where companies that are involved in a certain industry gather to exhibit their products, learn about current trends in their ind...  Read more

University of Missouri:
A New Life for Old Phones

If you happen to be in Missouri, keep an eye out for a commercial on cable TV featuring a guy in white tights and a green cape. His name is Brian Laoruang...  Read more

It Doesn't Matter What Your Business Does...

...it matters more why your business does what it does -- the company's mission. The cause or belief that inspires leaders and, in great companies, employ...  Read more

Interns as Interpreters

In an ethnically diverse area, business owners often have a difficult time connecting with potential clients because of language, cultural, or religious d...  Read more

Startup Lesssons and Recession Strategies

Vacant stores become ads. With bankruptcies on the rise and commercial real estate still sluggish, a handful of advertisers are turning vacant stor...  Read more

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In This Issue

The financial and emotional concerns of running a business are often enmeshed, and that is certainly the case when the subject is how much money the boss ...  Read more

The Inc. 500 Index

The fastest-growing private companies in America in 1997, arranged alphabetically.  Read more