U.S. Tops Global Competitiveness
Annual ranking cites improved market efficiency and high-tech innovation. Read story
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Happiness/contentment/satisfaction comes partly from knowing that you're doing pretty much what you should be doing. In your case, that would be building ... Read story
It's Good to be King
It's official: Bosses have more fun--and they're rich. Read story
How to Build Value
Book gives readers an informed account of some of the more bizarre financial episodes in recent times. Read story
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Is Big Back? Or Is Small Still Beautiful?
The current boom in mergers and acquisitions in today's market seems to suggest that bigger is better. Not so. Here's why smaller companies have distinct adv... Read story
The Myth of Advertising's Effectiveness
The argument made by the proponents of advertising is almost pathetically simple-minded: If you can measure the benefits of advertising on your business, ... Read story
Guest Speaker: Joseph E. Stiglitz, Stagflation Redux
Rising prices amid a sputtering economy? We've been here before. Here's how businesses should prepare. Read story
Board Basics
Robert Lear belongs in the boardroom Hall of Fame. Recently retired from Columbia University, retired chair of Schaefer Corp., and chairman of the advisor... Read story
Employees View Leadership Through Lens of Work-Life Balance
June 8, 2005 --If your employees have trouble balancing work and life, odds are they have less confidence in you as a corporate leader, a ... Read story
Supreme Court Case Could Make it Harder to File for Patents in the Future
A seemingly provincial dispute between a clinical testing firm and a group of university researchers is said to have implications on the definition of intell... Read story
Q: Is the U.S. Losing Its Economic Edge?
A: not a chance, thanks to innovative entrepreneurs and curious consumers. Amar Bhidé on why the techno-nationalists have it all wrong. Read story
Trading On The Computer
Relief from stock-market anxiety is always just a telephone call away -- provided you can get through to your broker. Unless he is underemployed, or unles... Read story
Getting to Prime
Interview with management consultant Ichak Adizes on growing a company to attain peak corporate performance. Read story
The Next Management Revolution
It's time to throw Sun Tzu out with the trash. Read story
I Wish Someone Had Told Me...
In the May issue of Inc. , the magazine honors the top 100 inner city businesses o... Read story
Yes, No, Maybe So
The silent treatment: It's one of the oldest tactics in journalism; you can make it work for you, too. Read story
Nobel Prize Winner to Study Entrepreneurship
The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation has awarded a research grant to Nobel Prize winner Edmund S. Phelps to fund a three-year study comparing entrepreneur... Read story
Avoiding Trade Show Faux Pas
Six tips exhibitors should know. Read story
The Superman Complex
CEO describes the post-Vietman trauma and its effect on his business. Read story
A Portfolio of Young Business Owners
Meet six students who have already taken the entrepreneurial leap. Read story
Patent Fending
A look at some famous legal battles between inventors and the corporations that stole their patented ideas. Read story
Driven by Design
Modo used to be just another struggling manufacturer in a crowded niche. Now it's virtually untouchable. Its secret: design. Read story
Makeover
Analysis of entrepreneurial couple's finances and advice from an investment adviser; how to find a financial planner. Read story
A Good Word About Consultants
Everybody likes to kick consultants these days, but a new breed of management consultant has some companies singing their praises. Read story
Nowhere Men
The anatomy of a start-up built around creating a cyberstore on the World Wide Web to sell CD recordings. Read story
Superman in Recovery
An interview with Max Carey, CEO of Corporate Resource Development. Carey discusses his book "The Superman Complex," in which he offers advice on achieving b... Read story
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Founders of professional service firms have a choice to make: Do they want to be the company, or do they want to build one? Read story
The Chinese Way Of Business
What appears to be a good old-fashioned family business may be a $100-million international conglomerate Read story
Universities: Your New Best Friend
For resource-hungry entrepreneurs, the explosion of university-based business-development programs comes as sweet relief in tight economic times. From Ann Ar... Read story
Until Death, or Some Other Sticky Problem, Do Us Part
The best advice on partnership is: Don't. But if you must, here's what you need to know. Read story
Bananas, My Brand, and Me
Jessica Nam never thought of becoming "a brand" when she started a cottage business while in school. That's changed. Read story
The Immigrant Prince
From Ellis Island to the corner grocery to the country's largest macaroni company, "JP" Pellegrino's story is the story of American enterprise. Read story
A Digital Makeover for the Modeling Business
How Ford Models became the hottest thing on YouTube. Read story
Emergency, Inc.;
An odd-looking trophy adorns the desk of Stanley R. Gold, M.D., founder and president of American Emergicenter Inc., a chain of publicly owned walk-in med... Read story
Churn, Baby, Churn
Some experts explain why all the turmoil associated with the new economy is actually good for us. Read story
Fast-growth Candidate
Other Presidential hopefuls have tried to sell themselves to the entrepreneur. Jack Kemp is the first to market entrepreneurship to the rest of the country. Read story
Surfer's Paradise
A beginner's guide to using the Internet. Includes tips for finding useful information, definitions to common terms, and suggested sites. Read story
The Coolest Small Company in America
Why are high-powered M.B.A.'s getting off the fast track to work for a $13-million food company in Ann Arbor? Read story
Patent Pending
Story of an inventor's 30-year battle to gain control of patent rights to the laser technology he helped develop. Read story
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