Exxon Mobil Corporation


What's in Store for Mobil? Check Your Local 510

By Mike Hofman |  Feb 1, 1997

A quick look at why large companies have a lot to learn from the little guys, like how to handle customers.  Read story

Resources

By Inc Staff |  Feb 1, 1997

A comprehensive resource guide to topics and issues featured in the February edition of Inc. magazine.  Read story

Busting The Trustbusters

By STEVEN PEARLSTEIN |  Apr 1, 1986

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

Exxon Nixxes Exxene, But Suit Suxxeeds

Sep 1, 1982

The next time Marilyn Warmack suggests a name for a company she and her husband own, William Warmack might choose to ignore her. In 1974, Marilyn de...  Read story

Rating The Bosses

Apr 1, 1984

Take the 2,477,000 corporations in the United States, winnow out the 2,476,900 sweatshops and soul-crushers, and you are left with 100 swell places to wor...  Read story

New Faces Of 1985

By Susan Buchsbaum |  May 1, 1985

AMERICAN SOLAR KING (84) When Brian Pardo talks about building American Solar King Corp. -- a Waco, Tex., manufacturer, distributor, and retailer of...  Read story

How I Did It: Larry Rigdon, Rigdon Marine

By Larry Rigdon |  Sep 1, 2008

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

Lowering Drug- and Alcohol-Testing Costs

By Ellyn E. Spragins |  Sep 1, 1992

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

Healthy Capitalist Systems

Nov 1, 1983

Sometimes, it seems the American workforce is literally in sick shape. Business health care costs are escalating at an annual rate of about 17% to 20%, ma...  Read story

The Economy of Ecology

By Robert A. Mamis |  Sep 1, 1991

Available book on corrective steps a company can take to protect the environment save money.  Read story

Talk to Me

By Leslie Brokaw |  Apr 1, 1990

Company sells voice-activated computers to trading houses and factory warehouses.  Read story

Letters

By Various Inc Staff |  May 1, 1997

Readers respond to topics and articles from past issues of Inc. magazine.  Read story

Start the Meter

By Anne Stuart |  Mar 1, 2004

It's a concept based on a brilliantly -- some might say deceptively -- simple question: Why not purchase computing capability the same way you buy electri...  Read story

Pick a Memorable Name for Your Business

Oct 21, 1999

Start by assuming you will want to market your products or services under the business name you choose. This will make your name a trademark. Assume, too,...  Read story

Mutual Funds: The Sleepy Investment Wakes Up

By John Case |  Nov 1, 1983

For openers, when you talk about mutual funds, keep in mind that you are talking about basic money -- bank-account-and-bonds-type money, the kind you expe...  Read story

Oil

By Nell Margolis |  Sep 1, 1986

* One barrel contains 42 gallons of oil, thanks to the Great Eel Controversy. Eels? In fifteenth-century England, King Edward IV settled one of the fract...  Read story

The Fight To Harness The Sun

By Tom Richman |  May 1, 1983

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

More Confessions of a Corporate Spook, Competitive Research Article - Inc. Article

Aug 1, 1998

More Confessions of a Corporate Spook --> ...  Read story

Intrapreneurship (sic) Corporate Creativity

Jan 1, 1983

Entrepreneurship. You can almost see the shudders -- and the hunger -- that word produces in the heart of corporate America. Picture Exxon Corp. hea...  Read story

Hot Tip: Staffing Salespeople

By JAY FINEGAN |  Aug 1, 1995

There's only so much you can do alone. Maybe a spouse pitches in, or a retired in-law catches the phones. But if you can barely afford yourself, how can y...  Read story

Sour Grapes

By Robert A. Mamis |  Oct 1, 1987

Are Wall Street's critics outraged by greed, or simply jealous?  Read story

Independent Gas Stations Feeling Pain at the Pump, Too

By Kasey Wehrum |  Nov 11, 2005

Nov. 11, 2005 --Consumer angst over gas prices reached a boil on Nov. 9, as the nation's top oil executives took to Capitol Hill, to answe...  Read story

Agenda 3/06

By Stephanie Clifford |  Mar 1, 2006

Caesar would have done well to beware the Ides of March (the 15th). You should be on guard too: It's tax day.  Read story

IPO Basics: Stock Exchanges and Securities Laws

Nov 1, 1999

Stock Exchanges Founded in 1792, the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) is home to some of America's best-known corporations. Its rost...  Read story

Spies Like Us

By Stephanie L. Gruner |  Aug 1, 1998

An interview with Tom Stemberg, CEO and chairman of Staples, Inc. Stemberg describes the industry information he gathers by playing mystery shopper at his co...  Read story

Incentive Pay Isn't Good for Your Company

By Patrick L. Lancaster |  Sep 1, 1994

A company's president explains why he is opposed to incentive pay, and why bonus plans failed at his company.  Read story

How the Law Protects Trademarks

Oct 21, 1999

The law protects trademarks by authorizing a trademark owner to file a lawsuit to: prevent others from using it in a context where it migh...  Read story

UNTITLED

Feb 1, 2003

While global risk has become a focal point for investors, corporate malfeasance is still a hairy elephant. But if the recommendations made Thursday by the...  Read story

Failure Is Success For Disaster Detectives

Oct 1, 1981

When things break down, fall apart, or go wrong, business is good for Failure Analysis Associates. Teams of engineers from the small Palo Alto, Cali...  Read story

Taking On The Network Giants

Nov 1, 1982

Digital Microsystems Inc. and Corvus Systems Inc,, both founded less than eight years ago and now successful pioneers in the microcomputer industry, have ...  Read story

The Floodgates Are Open

By Stanley E. Pratt |  Jun 1, 1981

Loosed by recent tax reductions, a surge of investment dollars has filled venture coffers to record heights.  Read story

Learning From the Best

Nov 5, 1999

Lessons from the Top: The Search for America's Best Business Leaders by Thomas J. Neff and James M. Citrin. Doubleday, 418 pages, $24.95....  Read story

Business World Mourns The Body Shop's Anita Roddick

By Liz Webber |  Sep 11, 2007

Roddick used her global chain of cosmetics stores to put social responsibility on the map.  Read story

Finding the Right Keyword

By Ellen Neuborne |  Oct 1, 2003

Marketing via search engines like Yahoo and Google isn't as easy or cheap as it used to be. But it's still a great way to get the word out, if you're smart a...  Read story

Remember This?

By Abby Solomon |  Oct 1, 1982

The electromechanical mainstay of today's office is being replaced by a softspoken, intelligent electronic typewriter, with a fine memory, too.  Read story

S.a.y. Hey

By L.R.S. |  Feb 1, 1985

S.A.Y. Industries Inc., headquartered in Leominster, Mass., manufactures and markets patented polyethylene bottles for motor oil and other products. Altho...  Read story

Independent Gas Stations Cleared of Price Gouging

By Angus Loten |  May 23, 2006

A Federal Trade Commission report blames refinery disruptions for high prices after Hurricane Katrina.  Read story

It's Not Just for Credit Cards Anymore

By Jill Andresky Fraser |  Apr 24, 2002

American Express's new business program, Open, offers promising financing options to start-ups and smaller businesses.  Read story

Human Billboards

Apr 1, 1983

Mark Kaufman might not give you the shirt off his back, but he would be happy to emblazon your own shirt with your corporate logo or slogan. In fact, he w...  Read story

Networking: A Little Help From Your Friends

By Joseph P. Kahn |  Jun 1, 1985

In an age of rapid change, more and more CEOs are turning to one another to help solve their companies' problems.  Read story

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