Exxon Mobil Corporation


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

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

Resources

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

Busting The Trustbusters

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

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 story

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 story

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 story

How I Did It: Larry Rigdon, Rigdon Marine

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

Lowering Drug- and Alcohol-Testing Costs

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

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 story

The Economy of Ecology

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

Talk to Me

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

Letters

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

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 story

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 story

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 story

Oil

* 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

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

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

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 story

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 story

Sour Grapes

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

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 story

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 story

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 story

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 story

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 story

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 story

UNTITLED

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

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

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

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

Learning From the Best

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

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

Finding the Right Keyword

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?

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

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

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

It's Not Just for Credit Cards Anymore

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

Human Billboards

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

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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