Highland Park


Instant Maps Speed Deliveries

Sep 22, 1999

If your customers' ardor has cooled so much between the time they order and the time you can deliver that they refuse to accept your product, shouldn't yo...  Read story

Corrections

May 1, 1982

A typographical error appeared in the letter from William B. Katz, president of Illinois Chemical Corp., Highland Park, Ill., in the March issue. Mr. Kat...  Read story

What Colleges Don't Teach About Business

By William B. Katz |  Mar 1, 1982

You're right, Albert Shapero! (Speaking Out, January.) It's not only the business schools that don't prepare students for small business -- enginee...  Read story

The Inc. Network

By Inc Staff |  Feb 1, 1994

Reader-to-reader advice.  Read story

A Company of Businesspeople

By John Case |  Apr 1, 1993

How and why managers are breaking down the traditional us-versus-them mentality of the workplace.  Read story

Caddy Shack

By Joseph P. Kahn |  May 1, 1987

Companies from far and wide are lining up at Sewell Village Cadillac to learn a thing or two about bringing customers back for more  Read story

Five Ideas to Watch

By Jess McCuan |  Apr 1, 2005

...including artificial muscle and online aromatherapy.  Read story

Keeping Your Numbers Secret

By Jill Andresky Fraser |  Feb 1, 1994

Three tips for keeping negotiations secret when you are trying to sell your business.  Read story

Getting Over the Threshold

By A. Alfred Taubman |  Apr 1, 2007

Many obstacles stand between a customer and a sale. Your job is to remove them.  Read story

Campus Businesses Have Fun, Make Profits

Jan 1, 1982

The word "demonstration" at colleges and universities these days is more likely to refer to a product demonstration than to a protest march. When student...  Read story

The Spirit Of Independence;

By Curtis Hartman |  Jul 1, 1985

"We have lived through the age of big industry and the age of the giant corporation. But I believe that this is the age of the entrepreneur." -- Ronald Reagan  Read story

IM Is Here. RU Ready 2 Try It?

By Anne Stuart |  Jul 1, 2002

Instant messages -- those cryptic little on-line conversations -- are traveling from teenagers' computers into businesses like yours.  Read story

Something for Something

By Leigh Buchanan |  Sep 15, 1998

Prepaid phone cards make great giveaways, but they're also good for getting something back: customer information. In the past someone dialing the toll-fre...  Read story

The Inc. Network

By Inc Staff |  Apr 1, 1994

Reader-to-reader advice.  Read story

Diamonds in the Rough

By David Whitford |  Nov 1, 1994

While the Baseball strike lingered, a start-up league thrived. This story tells how and looks at future plans.  Read story

An Electronic Field Day

By Joshua D. Macht |  Jun 15, 1995

Three different companies turned to technology to solve their specific problems.  Read story

Hiring The Best

By Bruce G. Posner |  Apr 1, 1989

Some screening techniques that will help to eliminate mistakes when making hiring decisions.  Read story

Supersalesman Chuck Sussman

Feb 1, 1986

From Sauna Pants to the INC. 500: the hilarious confessions of a mail-order maestro.  Read story

A Buyers Guide To Personal Business Software

Nov 1, 1981

Vendor Program *(Price **) System Requirements DATA MANAGEMENT ASHTON-TATE dBASE II ($700) 48K ...  Read story

Keeping It Simple

By Fred Hapgood |  Mar 15, 1996

A profile of a company that had to move away from automation in order to stay competitive.  Read story

The 1989 Inc. 500

By Leslie Brokaw |  Dec 1, 1989

Brief profiles of 15 Inc. 500 CEOs.  Read story

Splitting Heirs

By Stephanie Clifford |  Aug 1, 2007

In which two brothers take over the third-generation family wine-selling business. They quarrel, as brothers do. And now it isn't a family business anymore.  Read story

Bulletin Board

By Inc Staff |  Sep 15, 1998

A collection of short articles about technology. Topics include boosting sales with a Web site affiliate, emotional computers, and gathering customer data wi...  Read story

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