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Fiasco, By Jack Anderson With James Boyd. Times Books, Three Park Ave., New York, Ny 10016; 386 Pp., $17.50.

Some Americans suspected that there was a Nixon in the woodpile in regard to the oil crises and price run-ups of the early 1970s, what with the former Pre...  Read story

U.S., Allies Create Small-Business Fund for Middle East

Nov. 18, 2005 --The nation's foreign policymakers are turning to small businesses to promote democracy in the Middle East and North Africa...  Read story

Trading Places: Inc.'s 2008 Export Guide

Who has petrodollars to spend? Where can you sell construction equipment? Jewelry? Management consulting? And where is the market that grew an astounding 55,...  Read story

Where New Ideas Flourish

New research identifies where the culture of innovation is most firmly rooted.  Read story

Do-It-Yourself Phone-Fraud Safeguards

9 precautions to help prevent phone-fraud.  Read story

Living Like Indiana

He's only a fictional character, but Indiana Jones has the kind of existence many of us envy. By day, he's a respected intellectual, but after hours, he p...  Read story

Mail

This month's letters to the editor.  Read story

The Business of the Museum

A look at companies that helped to create a dinosaur exhibit at Pittsburgh's natural history museum  Read story

The World is Not Enough

Bülent Çelebi is a worldly guy, having lived in Turkey, Hong Kong, and the U.S. before returning to Istanbul to establish AirTies--which has a su...  Read story

The Entrepreneurial Year in Review

For some industries -- finance and retail, we're looking at you -- this was a year of living dangerously. But plenty of companies had a big year. A look at t...  Read story

How to Avoid Pitfalls when Making Overseas Assignments

Last year more than 3.7 million Americans were expatriates. Add to that number of spouses andchildren and the global HR manager's work grows exponentially...  Read story

Red Sales in the Gun Set

The Flint River Project Inc. produces spare parts locally for foreign equipment.  Read story

Designer Foods

Three innovative start-ups that have developed designer foods.  Read story

The Ties That Bound

This story looks at the long history of long distance networking, a concept that predates the Greeks.  Read story

Mideast Boom

Mosaica is not the only company benefiting from a surge in Mideast demand for U.S. goods and services. This year, U.S. exports to the region are expected ...  Read story

Making the Travelers' Century Club, Times Two

Dick Matland, president of Coronado Shores Co., has traveled to enough destinations to qualify for the Travelers' Century Club two times over.  Read story

The Way I Work: Mick Mountz of Kiva Systems

Kiva Systems helps companies such as Zappos and Staples equip their warehouses with a work force of robots  Read story

The Secrets of Creative Collaboration

We cling to the idea of success being based on individuals, but this article shows the value of the great group.  Read story

How I Did It: Larry Rigdon, Rigdon Marine

As told to Leigh Buchanan Industry Leader: Transportation Three-Year Growth: Read story

Coming to America

A special program called StartSmart is turning immigrants into entrepreneurs. Meet five who are succeeding.  Read story

Emerging Markets

The phrase "emerging markets" has two distinct connotations. First , it means new and emerging foreign export markets for U.S. companies. The U.S....  Read story

Globalization

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How I Did It: Kenneth Feld, CEO, Feld Entertainment

He hires fire-eaters and acrobats! He breeds elephants! Plus this daring feat: As boss of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey, Ken Feld turned a castoff circu...  Read story

High Rise And Handsome

Far from the glamorous valleys of high technology, the fastest-growing private company in the United States has been casting handsome profits from poured con...  Read story

Travel: Now boarding: the JetBlue of Bangalore

Discount airlines have become an international hit. We list who is flying.  Read story

How We Did It: Crane & Co.

200 years of happy customers, from Paul Revere to the Saudi government.  Read story

I Really Must Be Going

Company founders and their businesses don't always grow at the same pace or in the same direction. Andy Raskin, author of Inc.'s E-Diaries columns, ...  Read story

Guest Speaker: Mapping the Entrepreneurial Psyche

What leads a person to start a company? "The impulse...to prove oneself superior to others."  Read story

The Fight To Harness The Sun

Roger Little of Spire Corp. is betting that his strategy for making solar power pay can overcome foreign competition, big oil, and lack of government support...  Read story

The New and Improved American Small Business

A close-up look at what it takes for a small business to battle with giant, nationwide competitors.  Read story

How I Did It: John Stallworth, CEO, Madison Research

An athlete scores again.  Read story

Just A Poor, Dumb Dirt Farmer

Colonel Gregory is the fifth generation to farm the rich dirt of Virginia. Truth be told, he's a lot smarter than he makes out to be.  Read story

Bible in the Boardroom?

Rabbi Visotzky explains how his Bible-study group helps CEOs apply stories from the Bible to issues that arise in running a business, including moral dilemma...  Read story

Fully Committed

Let others proceed gingerly. Bülent Çelebi has set up an American-style company in Turkey, where he enjoys advantages his competition can only dr...  Read story

The Believer

The Harvard M.B.A., the Fortune 500 experience, the connections that come with both--those are just some of the reasons Selena Cuffe can pretty much write he...  Read story

Gary Heavin Is On a Mission From God

His goal: To single-handedly save the world's women from obesity. With Curves, he seems to be pulling it off. And he's built a billion-dollar business along ...  Read story

Unsentimental Journey

A Horatio Alger success story in the extreme that is the story of many an entrepreneur.  Read story

Enduring Lessons From a Short War

Over the course of 21 days of war, seven companies faced a test: Would their best-laid plans work? And if not, could they quickly adapt?  Read story

French Twist

No one coddles employees like the French, right? Well, you may be surprised. The table at right lists the cost of firing workers, including mandatory severan...  Read story

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