Harvard Business Review

Increasing Opportunities for Learning Can Lower Turnover

The top reason for employee turnover is lack of training, according to many surveys and business publications, including the Harvard Business Review.<...  Read more

Graniterock Comes Out Ahead with Short Pay

Imagine that every invoice you issued carried the following message: If you are not satisfied with any item on this bill for any reason,don't p...  Read more

The author's assertion that business schools lack interest in small business hardly seems to agree with the findings of the study cited on page 22 of the ...  Read more

Labor-Union Disharmony Silences Symphony

Because of a small market and union problems, the Sacramento Symphony went bust.  Read more

07.15.2011 | Inc.com Daily

Checking in on your employees, tips on videoblogging, how to keep in touch while on vacation, and more.  Read more

Cutting-Edge Wisdom on Conquering World Markets

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Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is an instrument designed to evaluate people and provide descriptive profiles of their personality types. Based on ...  Read more

Renovation

Renovation describes a series of planned changes and updates made to a facility where business is conducted. Office and building renovation will take plac...  Read more

Public Policy: What Does Business Really Want from Government?

This article explains how government must reinvent economic and regulatory policies to match today's marketplace.  Read more

In this Issue

Reflecting on the current business climate and an unstoppable force.  Read more

Resources

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

Organizational Life Cycle

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Thinking Big

Tom Peters takes on the Harvard Business Review regarding the issue of company size  Read more

Inc. International: The Global Perspctive

Quotes about European trade barriers, adjusting to international trade and finding foreign suppliers.  Read more

Innovation

Related Terms: Managing Org...  Read more

Search: Everything Old Is New Again

Sources old and new on time management and personal renewal. Plus, why Google should watch its back.  Read more

Using Time Tracking Data to Avoid Recessions

If you have enough time with your small business to prepare before the recesssion hits and you're not in dire straits yet, whether a recessi...  Read more

The State of Small Business 1995

Inc.'s editor-in-chief profiles the writers appearing in this special annual report, The State of Small Business.  Read more

Retaining Talent in the New Economy

In today's low unemployment environment most hiring managers are poachers, looking outside their organizations to find talented people. When they spot att...  Read more

Retaining Talent in the New Economy

In today's low unemployment environment most hiring managers are poachers, looking outside their organizations to find talented people. When they spot att...  Read more

Is the "Check In" Era Nearly Over?

Who's ringing the death knell? Plus, San Francisco's start-up "gentrification" and the rest of the day's news for entrepreneurs.  Read more

Keep Your Enemies Close

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

Jack's Back

Jack Welch that is. The former CEO of General Electric is gearing up to write a how-to business manual for HarperCollins entitled Winning , report...  Read more

06.20.2011 | Inc.com Daily

In defense of Groupon, tech investors, small business hiring, a new mobile payment app worth knowing about, and how to handle a request for a raise.  Read more

Using Predictive Analytics on Web Data

Traditional Web analytics are great for optimizing visit level metrics. Here's how you can go beyond that, and use predictive analytics to form long term rel...  Read more

To Fib or Not to Fib

Five businesses that are the last of their kind in America. Outsourcing and the sands of time have taken their toll on these five companies, profil...  Read more

Fake Steve Jobs Gets a Sitcom Deal

Tips from Inc.'s GrowCo Conference. Following up a day that included presentations by Read more

Reinventing Our Energy Infrastructure

Take a look at 10 companies reinventing America's energy infrastructure. Changing the way we use energy is going to require more than just new ways...  Read more

Immigration, Valley Blues, and Easy Managing Tips

Immigration and innovation. In the New York Times, Thomas Friedman has a Read more

Still Thinking About Drucker

Nan Stone, the well known former editor of the Harvard Business Review, wrote a lovely article for the latest issue of the American Scholar about Peter Dr...  Read more

India's Entrepreneurs Unleashed; Google's New Language

From the annals of world domination: Google launches its own programming language. One of the pillars of Google's success has been efficiency, whet...  Read more

How to Communicate With Employees

The secrets, and the benefits, of effective communication.  Read more

The High Cost of Rudeness in the Workplace

Nastiness causes employee error -- and we're not just talking about the customer service department.  Read more

Making Your Exit

It's the most emotive topic you'll face while building your business, and probably the hardest to make.  Read more

Free Overseas Business Trip

Chances are you've cut back on your travel budget; perhaps you're flying coach, perhaps you're flying less often, or perhaps you're not flying at all. Tod...  Read more

Adrian Slywotzky Interview: New Book in October

Slywotzky talks about his new book, Demand: Creating What People Love Before They Know They Want It.   Read more

How to Launch a $100 Start-up

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

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 more