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Lights Out!

"For 25 years I've been telling people to turn the lights out when they leave, to no avail. Then I was at our High Point, N.C., operation, where the manag...  Read more

As a pharmacist, he had plenty of medications to soothe his son's hacking cough. But there was a rub: none offered croup therapy specifically for infants....  Read more

The School of Hard Knocks-Condensed

Training offered by management-simulation programs.  Read more

Customer Feedback

Communicating directly with the people who buy your product.  Read more

Economy in Reverse

For the last several months I’ve talked about our economy being in neutral and teetering on the brink of improvement or downturn. With results in fo...  Read more

Help (Still) Wanted

It's never been tougher for companies to hire unskilled workers, and the shortage is going to get worse. Fortunately, some smart companies have figured out h...  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

Five Ideas to Watch

Clothing that repels bugs, Bill Clinton's latest plaything, and more.  Read more

Management Simulations

Available simulations designed to evaluate management skills.  Read more

Boomtowns '06: Hottest Midsize Cities

Employment Base of 150,000-450,000.  Read more

Making Employees Accountable

Boost performance with structured goals, worker input. Many workers say managment doesn't live up to its own goals.  Read more

Hot Tip: A Perk for You and Your Child

Although Gen-X employees may prefer such perks as free food and stock options, workers with kids in college need something else -- cash. To help out with ...  Read more

Ask Inc.

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Regional Entrepreneurs of the Year

A list of 1992's Regional Entrepreneurs of the Year.  Read more

Political Capital

An interview with CEO Bonnie McElveen-Hunter, Elizabeth Dole's former chief fund-raiser.  Read more

A Golden Alternative

Using alternative airports is a form of creative ticketing that airlines don't really object to, but they will not offer alternative airport options when ...  Read more

A $10-a-Seat Airline Launches--But Can It Fly?

Skybus , an airline offering $10 seats, launched this morning, and by midday, it had sold Read more

CEO's Notebook

CEOs give advice on: controlling your company's growth; obtaining domain names; choosing accounting software; and retaining employees. Plus: Former Miami Dol...  Read more

Local Economies Land $195 Million in Grants

The Department of Labor awarded the grants to 13 regions across the nation, which will use the money to stimulate innovation and education in the tech sector.  Read more

Local Economies Land $195 Million in Grants

The Department of Labor awarded the grants to 13 regions across the nation, which will use the money to stimulate innovation and education in the tech sector.  Read more

#8 TEMPS & CO. WASHINGTON, D.C. Many INC. 500 companies are wife-and-husband teams, but so far as we can tell, this is the only sister-brother c...  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

How To Get A Fix On Free Ad Dollars

Companies are dreaming up new ways to spend co-op advertising dollars -- and reaping the rewards of greater exposure.  Read more

Sad News for Google's Founders; Senior-Citizen Startups

Trading bingo for small business. Tired of reading about all these pimple-faced whippersnappers starting multi-million-dollar tech companies out of...  Read more

How to Switch Careers and End of Web 2.0

What comes after Web 2.0? Over at Wired, Bruce Sterling posts the full text of his speech, Read more

Succession Planning Not Just for Top Execs

The words "succession planning" are usually associated with finding the right people to fill the highest-level positions. But planning for future s...  Read more

One Man's Meat

Supplier of discontinued china and crystal finds that natural disasters promote good business.  Read more

Hot Spots;

What are the fastest-growing retail markets around? New York? Houston? Phoenix? Surprise -- none of them even makes the top 10. The hottest retail mar...  Read more

Give To The Children, Save On Tax Bill

Christmastime turns the mind to thoughts of giving. The end of the year turns the mind to thoughts of taxes. An incongruous juxtaposition? Not entirely. G...  Read more

Managing Telecommuters

Working with and managing telecommuters takes managerial buy-in as well as workers who work well independently.  Read more

Best Cities: The Lists

Here's Inc. magazine's 2000 list of the best metro areas, big and small, in which to start and grow your business.  Read more

Letters

Readers react to articles from the April and May 2000 issues of Inc. , including "The Case for Higher Prices" and "The Art of the Deal," by Norm Brod...  Read more

Incentives Can Be Bad For Business

Whether they know it or not, most executives are Skinnerians. It was Harvard psychologist B. F. Skinner who popularized the theory of positive reinforcem...  Read more

Taming the Savage Genius

The delicate art of managing employees who are way, way smarter than you.  Read more

Mail

The Good, the Bad, the Underfunded Robb Mandelbaum's feature about the Small Business Administration was the most balanced article I have read...  Read more

Disabled Workers: The Unexpected Advantage

One company's story of the positive results they've enjoyed because they hired disabled persons, and how to do the same.  Read more

The 500

#13 APPLIED SYSTEMS INC. UNIVERSITY PARK, ILL. You saw it in the stock market. You've seen it in the merger-and-acquisition activity. ...  Read more