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When to Switch Carriers

One CEO's guide to choosing and/or switching health-insurance carriers.  Read more

Origins

Six short articles describe the unlikely events that triggered the start-up of companies appearing on the 1998 Inc. 500 list.  Read more

Jig May Be Up on Fantastic Stock Multiples from Roll-up Acquisitions

New SEC Staff Accounting Bulletin may spell the end to the roll-up gravy train.  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

Hot Spots

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

The Employee-Run-Budget Work Sheet

An up-close look at one company's budget work sheet used to support open-book management techniques.  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

Games Companies Play

This article examines how various business-people are using game-playing techniques to handle a wide variety of problems  Read more

The Open-Book Revolution

A special report adapted from Case's book, 'Open-Book Management,' featuring many facets of this technique.  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