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Finance;

Think twice before you sell off your excess inventory at fire-sale prices. Under the new tax law, you might do better giving it to charity. That's because...  Read more

The New Civil War

This feature explains who pays the price for wasteful subsidies used to attract or retain businesses.  Read more

Cities and Oil Prices: The Winners and The Losers

For most places, it’s hard to tell what the long-term effect of the high cost of energy might be. But there are some fairly safe bets.  Read more

Putting Stock In Your Advisers

Young companies are using equity to help forge closer ties to such important outside firms as executive recruiters and accountants.  Read more

Why There Aren't More Women In This Magazine

Maybe it's because women are creating a business world all their own.  Read more

Veterans Corporation Investigated

Senate lawmakers are looking into a funding shortfall that's forcing a St. Louis business center to close.  Read more

They'll Get It For You Wholesale

Companies willing to help their employees finance microcomputers reap benefits they hadn't anticipated.  Read more

Which Cities Will the High Cost of Energy Hurt (and Help) the Most?

A high cost energy future will profoundly impact the cost of doing business and create new opportunities, but not necessarily in the way most people expect.  Read more

Managing People;

Most company presidents pay lip service to employee participation, but few go as far as Frederick Shaltz Jr., president of Delta Land Surveying & Engi...  Read more

Survey

Survey responses from Inc. 500 CEOs on a variety of small business and economic issues.  Read more

Everyone's a Knowledge Worker

Report from Green Bay.  Read more

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 more

Back To Basics

The high-tech boom went bust, and investors started looking for managers with proven track records, and flocking to companies like Roto-Rooter and OshKosh Bh...  Read more

Driving A Hard Bargain

DOING BUSINESS WITH BIG BUSINESS ISN'T AS SIMPLE AS IT USED TO BE. BUT THE PAYOFFS ARE STILL ENORMOUS.  Read more

Cities that Have Soared or Sunk as a Place to Start a Business

A look at the big and small cities that have shown the greatest rise or fall on Inc. 's list of the best cities in which to start a business, from 19...  Read more

Almanac

A statistical guide to the metro areas and states that are home to the most start-ups per capita, the top 20 types of new ventures, and the most popular home...  Read more

This Year's Model

A close-up look at an Inc. 500 company that has prevailed in an industry gripped by unforgiving consolidation.  Read more

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 more

Information, Please

How to give useful job references without getting in to hot water.  Read more

Hot Spots

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

'unreasonable Compensation'

Unreasonable compensation is the IRS's way of telling you that you are paying yourself too much salary. Although the absence of concrete rules makes it diffi...  Read more

Best Cities: The Location Advantage

Is it time to make your move? These CEOs bet that their companies would thrive in a new location.  Read more

It's Not the Same America

Barriers to succeeding in business include regulation, special interests, protectionism, access to capital and welfare.  Read more

Hot Spots

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