Erie (Pennsylvania)


Operations;

Next time you sign a hefty check to an outside janitorial or maintenance service, think about addressing it to your own employees. When Harry Brown,...  Read story

To Gift or Not to Gift

Some ideas on business-to-business gift giving.  Read story

Peer Pressure Motivates

By making its 45 employees responsible for setting service standards and accountable to each other for their performance, a $1.7-million ...  Read story

From Office to Factory Floor

Closing the quality-of-work-life gap between office workers factory workers by offering equal perks.  Read story

The Real Estate Makeover

Logistics Plus had been homeless for too long. But how much home did it need?  Read story

The Inc. Network

Reader-to-reader advice.  Read story

Quality Begins At Home

Zero defects? Acceptable quality levels? If only the gurus of quality control knew what it really takes to turn around a manufacturing operation.  Read story

Stretching Your Benefits Dollars

Looking to woo employees with a state-of-the-art benefits package? Here's why flexible spending accounts may be just what your growth company needs.  Read story

Naming Names

Eriez Magnetics makes its production workers feel appreciated by providing them with name plates.  Read story

The Business of a Fire Station

A look at companies that help outfit Fire Station No. 11 in Dallas  Read story

You Oughta Be In Pictures

Company snaps photos of all customers who pass through their doors. Later, they send photo to cust. as a momento.  Read story

The Most Entrepreneurial Cities in America

Inc.'s 1990 ranking of metropolitan regions by job growth, business starts, and proportion of high-growth companies.  Read story

Hot Spots

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

Contributors

Is North Dakota the next Silicon Valley? Um, probably not. But Renuka Rayasam reports that states that are typically ignored by VCs are c...  Read story

Public Companies: $156,000 At The Top

Executives of smaller publicly held companied enjoy fatter paychecks and broader perks than their counterparts in smaller private firms. That's the concl...  Read story

Details, Details, Details

Various business people tell what it's like to manage a strategic partnership.  Read story

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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 story

Regional Entrepreneurs of the Year

A list of 1992's Regional Entrepreneurs of the Year.  Read story

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The Private 500 represent 44 states. Geographically, the West wins again on the strength of California's 84 companies -- more than twice as many as any ot...  Read story

The Eternal Second Act

Even the best products grow obsolete, so your next one had better be in the works  Read story

When Slow and Steady Wins the Race

A company profile showing that not every business has to make furious high-tech changes to thrive.  Read story

The Entrepreneurial Mystique

Almost all of the conventional wisdom about entrepreneurship, says Peter Drucker, is dead wrong. Entrepreneurship is nothing more than a discipline and, like...  Read story

Hot Spots

Summary of metropolitan economies for 1989; the most growth was seen in the 'edge cities', where cattle once grazed.  Read story

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