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What's in Store for Mobil? Check Your Local 5
Busting The Trustbusters
Independent businesspeople voted in droves for Ronald Reagan. Now Reagan proposes that fewer businesspeople be independent. Read more
Exxon Nixxes Exxene, But Suit Suxxeeds
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 more
Rating The Bosses
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 more
Obama's Plan: Economic Lifeline Or Political Weapon?
Barack Obama's emergency back-up stimulator, announced today, is a ... Read more
New Faces Of 1985
AMERICAN SOLAR KING (84) When Brian Pardo talks about building American Solar King Corp. -- a Waco, Tex., manufacturer, distributor, and retailer of... Read more
How I Did It: Larry Rigdon, Rigdon Marine
As told to Leigh Buchanan Industry Leader: Transportation Three-Year Growth: Read more
Lowering Drug- and Alcohol-Testing Costs
Lowering the cost of testing employees for drugs and alcohol. Read more
Healthy Capitalist Systems
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 more
The Economy of Ecology
Available book on corrective steps a company can take to protect the environment save money. Read more
Talk to Me
Company sells voice-activated computers to trading houses and factory warehouses. Read more
Start the Meter
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 more
Start the Meter
'Pay-as-you-go' computing could revolutionize how companies buy and use technology. Read more
Pick a Memorable Name for Your Business
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 more
Mutual Funds: The Sleepy Investment Wakes Up
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 more
More Confessions of a Corporate Spook, Competitive Research Article - Inc. Article
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Tactics Are the New Strategy
Strategic management can be a huge time drain for managers. Why not just ditch the conventional wisdom and go with your intuition in order to innovate once i... Read more
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 more
Hot Tip: Staffing Salespeople
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 more
Intrapreneurship (sic) Corporate Creativity
Entrepreneurship. You can almost see the shudders -- and the hunger -- that word produces in the heart of corporate America. Picture Exxon Corp. hea... Read more
Agenda 3/06
Caesar would have done well to beware the Ides of March (the 15th). You should be on guard too: It's tax day. Read more
Independent Gas Stations Feeling Pain at the Pump, Too
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 more
Sour Grapes
Are Wall Street's critics outraged by greed, or simply jealous? Read more
IPO Basics: Stock Exchanges and Securities Laws
Stock Exchanges Founded in 1792, the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) is home to some of America's best-known corporations. Its rost... Read more
Spies Like Us
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 more
The High Cost of Cyber Attacks
In the wake of Operation Aurora, a new global study finds widespread strikes on critical systems. Read more
Incentive Pay Isn't Good for Your Company
A company's president explains why he is opposed to incentive pay, and why bonus plans failed at his company. Read more
How to Choose the Best Options for Your Company’s 401(k) Plan
It takes more than portfolio diversification to help employees amass the money needed to enjoy life for 20 more years after they quit working full-time. Read more
How the Law Protects Trademarks
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 more
Power Down
Reports that the entire city of New Orleans is without power and sewage treatment is just the beginning of what this city and surrounding areas will face ... Read more
How to Choose the Best Name For Your Business
Entrepreneurs often angst over the perfect name for their business. This guide will help you choose a defensible trademark and a search-friendly, recognizabl... Read more
Taking On The Network Giants
Digital Microsystems Inc. and Corvus Systems Inc,, both founded less than eight years ago and now successful pioneers in the microcomputer industry, have ... Read more
Failure Is Success For Disaster Detectives
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 more
Time to Accept Contactless Payments?
Large chains the likes of Exxon Mobil, Arby's, CVS, and other top retailers now accept contactless payments. But should small and mid-sized retailers also sp... Read more
Business World Mourns The Body Shop's Anita Roddick
Roddick used her global chain of cosmetics stores to put social responsibility on the map. Read more
How Great Entrepreneurs Think
Think inside the (restless, curious, eager) minds of highly accomplished company builders. Read more
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