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A New Approach to Employee Incentives

Traditional Employee Incentive Plans have rewarded employees for a job well done; however, many companies are taking a new approach to incentives.  T...  Read more

The Boy Who Cried Boycott

Okay, what are we boycotting this time? "Remember when we were all supposed to quit Facebook?," asks TechCrunch blogger Read more

Is Kosmix better than Google?

Like most people in the Internet-using universe, I use Google as my default search engine, and expect it to answer pretty much any question I have. But I ...  Read more

Kosmix Vs. Google, Round 2

After my post about Kosmix earlier this week , the company's directo...  Read more

How I Learned to Love Middle Managers

I hoped to create a utopian workplace. Instead, I caused an employee revolt.  Read more

The Converts

They saw the light. Now they're making sure everyone else does, too.  Read more

Patents, Patents Everywhere...

The Supreme Court heard arguments yesterday in a case that is ex...  Read more

Returns: Mergers and Accusations

Yes, most mergers are misguided. But savvy investors shouldn't overlook those few companies that get them right.  Read more

From Employee to Entrepreneur

When I graduated from Rutgers University in 1985 with a degree in electrical engineering, I immediately did what came naturally back then: I joined a larg...  Read more

Seller Door

An interview with Glen Meakem, CEO of FreeMarkets OnLine. Meakem explains why Internet commerce increases competition and rewards only the most efficiently r...  Read more

Why We Lose

Book review: The Silent War: Inside The Global Business Battles Shaping America's Future. (Random House 1989)  Read more

Steve Prelosky

Age: 30 Hometown: Pittsburgh Undergraduate Degree: Pennsylvania State University Business School: Graduate School of Industrial Administ...  Read more

How Do You Sell A Light Bulb That Never Burns Out?

Kevin Keating figured he had a sure thing. So why didn't it walk off the shelves?  Read more

Getting To The Top -- And Staying There

'I don't think about my weaknesses; it's too easy to turn those into excuses. I don't see obstacles, just minor impediments.'  Read more

Small Technical Firms Get New Export Boost

Just 12% of this country's gross national product is generated by international trade, and almost all of it is carried out by our largest corporations. T...  Read more

Help In Exploring New Product Ideas

Looking for new products or processes to produce and market? General Electric publishes a monthly news service, called Selected Business Ventures (SBV), ...  Read more

The Next Generation

Results of a survey of high school students on their attitudes about entrepreneurship.  Read more

Tips From A Banker

Fewer than 10% of prospective borrowers come to a bank adequately prepared. And bankers haven't the time to dig for the facts they need. Unfortunately, t...  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

In-Flight Networking

A weekly look at the latest products and services designed to help you run a better business.  Read more

Great Moments In Recruiting

PART 4 But Did They Get A's in the Course? The two engineering students from Stanford University capped of their undergraduate years of friend...  Read more

North Carolina's Research Triangle is the idol of industrial-policy advocates, who argue that the rest of the country ought to emulate its business-govern...  Read more

Seeing the Light

Don Dennis, president and CEO of AVT Inc., in Littleton, Colo., said he was a "total non-believer" in E-commerce until recently. The General Electric vete...  Read more

Will The Company Please Come To Order

Who's in charge at Marquette Electronics? (Hint: It only looks like it's the employees.)  Read more

Take A Risk: It's Safer

Buying stocks of small, high-flying companies may seem chancy, but the payoffs should make even conservative investors take notice.  Read more

Seeing the Light

Don Dennis, president and CEO of AVT Inc., in Littleton, Colo., said he was a "total nonbeliever" in E-commerceuntil recently. The General Electric vetera...  Read more

The 1993 Inc. 500

Annotations to the 1993 Inc. 500 list.  Read more

One Plus One Is Three

Start-up does contract product development work for manufacturers.  Read more

Nothing Endures but Change

The only absolute in today's volatile business climate is that change is inevitable -- and just around the corner. So unless you're ahead of it, you're alrea...  Read more

Big Business Eyes EMR Industry

Corporations, such as Dell and GE, partner with small business pioneers to have a stake in the electronic medical records industry.  Read more

Kukla, Fran, and Pinky

Start-up publishes children's books with finger puppets.  Read more

Get in the Door One Step at a Time

Asking for a little bit of the business as an alternative sales strategy.  Read more

Time After Time

Just-in-Time is neither Japanese nor new. It was popularized in the late 1950s and '60s as part of the development of modern management techniques that a...  Read more

In-Your-Face Selling

A gutsy approach to closing the deal.  Read more

The Best of Both Worlds

Competing small companies are forming networks that strengthen each company's independence.  Read more

A Facebook Monopoly on Nouns

Each day, Inc .'s reporters scour the Web for the most important and interesting news to entrepreneurs. Here's what we found today: ...  Read more