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Finance;

By Reported by Donna Fenn |  Oct 1, 1987

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 story

The New Civil War

By David Friedman |  May 15, 1996

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

Cities and Oil Prices: The Winners and The Losers

By Joel Kotkin and Michael Shires |  Aug 6, 2008

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 story

Putting Stock In Your Advisers

By Joseph P. Kahn |  Jun 1, 1984

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

Why There Aren't More Women In This Magazine

By Ellen Wojahn |  Jul 1, 1986

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

They'll Get It For You Wholesale

By Abby Solomon |  May 1, 1984

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

Veterans Corporation Investigated

By Alexandra Zendrian |  Mar 5, 2008

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

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

By Joel Kotkin and Michael Shires |  Aug 6, 2008

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 story

Managing People;

By Reported by Donna Fenn |  Jan 1, 1988

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 story

Survey

By Anne Murphy |  Dec 1, 1991

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

Everyone's a Knowledge Worker

By Joel Kotkin |  May 1, 2005

Report from Green Bay.  Read story

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Apr 1, 1987

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

Back To Basics

By Bruce G. Posner |  Feb 1, 1986

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 story

Driving A Hard Bargain

By Donna Sammons Carpenter |  May 1, 1985

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

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

By Mary Kwak |  Dec 1, 2000

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 story

Almanac

By Inc Staff |  May 15, 1998

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 story

Information, Please

By Marisa Manley |  Jun 1, 1989

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

The Most Entrepreneurial Cities in America

By John Case |  Mar 1, 1990

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

This Year's Model

By Edward O. Welles |  Oct 15, 2000

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

'unreasonable Compensation'

By Donna Sammons |  Sep 1, 1983

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 story

Hot Spots

Mar 1, 1988

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

Best Cities: The Location Advantage

By Emily Barker |  Dec 1, 2000

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

It's Not the Same America

By Edward O. Welles |  May 1, 1994

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

Hot Spots

By Joel Kotkin |  Mar 1, 1989

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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