No Fund
Honeywell cancels plans for a $10-million fund to help small companies fight patent infringement. Read story
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The Change Masters, By Rosabeth Moss Kanter. Simon
The major difference between the old corporate ethic and the new, says this Yale professor and management consultant, is that the former expected workers ... Read story
Data On Contracts
Regarding the Freedom of Information Act (National Affairs, June), your readers may have encountered another problem with this most complex arena -- the i... Read story
Hiring;
Outplacement -- a service provided primarily by large employers to help laid-off employees find new jobs -- is thriving, following a rash of plant consoli... Read story
It's In The Cards
While bankers and retailers have warily eyed the advent of smart cards -- microcomputers encased in credit card-size plastic -- one small company has foun... Read story
Predictions for the Future Boardroom
Corporate governance is one of the fastest-changing fields in business, stirring almost as much recent turmoil as the exploding balloon of the dotcom and ... Read story
A Call To Action
Jim Pinto is betting his company on a humanistic approach to commerce that makes Action Instruments everybody's business. Read story
Innovation: A New Rooftop Wind Turbine
The WindTronics turbine can generate energy at low speeds. Read story
Gold Diggers Of 1984
Old computers are panning out in an unexpected way. Entrepreneurs are mining obsolete computers for gold, silver, platinum, palladium, and copper, culling... Read story
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On the first anniversary of 1982's spectacular market launch, stocks were on their way down. But the nature of any market -- bull or bear -- is to correct... Read story
Nature Or Nuture?
'I'm a poor boy from the Bronx, who used the GI bill to go to school and built a $20 million company up from nothing. I believe in the American flag and the ... Read story
What the Experts Forgot to Mention
Model team-based management company still struggles with the complexities of its system. Read story
When Something Clicks
A look at how digital cameras helped streamline operations at two businesses and the process the CEOs went through to select the best cameras for their speci... Read story
Funny Business
Company develops home-monitoring bracelets for prisoners based on an idea from a Spiderman comic book. Read story
Why America Is Losing The Technology War
Foreign companies are years ahead of American corporations in taking advantage of our own innovations. Read story
An Ad Agency Wins One Round With Aftra
In 1969, Tom Di Noto founded Tuesday Productions Inc., a San Diego, Calif., company that creates musical jingles for television and radio commercials. At ... Read story
Computer Applications
According to The History of Computing Project, the prototype of the first microcomputer was introduced by the aptly named Micro Computer Inc., Los Angele... Read story
A Bank That Looks At More Than Numbers
Rather than insisting that all financial ratios be in line, Northwestern National Bank of St. Paul ends to promising companies early, in hopes of developing ... Read story
Skimmers Guide to the Latest Business Books
The book: The Game-Changer: How You Can Drive Revenue and Profit Growth With Innovation. Crown Business; April 2008. <... Read story
Blood Feud
The story of a biomedical start-up sued by an industry giant for theft of trade secrets, and how the start-up triumphed. Read story
Rx For Defense Procurement
Want to cut the Pentagon's budget? Here is a method that is quick, effective, and won't jeopardize security. Read story
Opposite Attractions
A look at the two winners of the 1994 Master EOY titles, their companies, and the runner-up. Read story
One Step Forward, Two Steps Back
In a start-up, one thing worse than a bad product is a good product with too little money behind it, as Evolution Technologie's founders learned the hard way. Read story
More Independent Voices
In your profile of J. Presper Eckert, you claim that he, along with Dr. John W. Mauchly, developed the "world's first electronic digital computer." This i... Read story
The Greening Of New Mexico
Small business diversity could be the key to fast but sensible growth for the "Land of Enchantment" in the '80s. Read story
Variations On The Theme
Skyway Freight Systems Inc.'s strategy is designed to find the pivotal sales points -- the pressure points, if you will -- in a market that offers potenti... Read story
Hot Spots
INC.'s list of the 50 fastest-growing U.S. cities Read story
What's Next: Introducing the CamPuter
Imagine 10 million surveillance cameras, digitized and linked. Read story
The Birth Of An Industry
Working in their attics, basements, and garages, seven entrepreneurs tacked together a totally new industry. Read story
Foreign Affairs
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, " Charles Dickens wrote about the period of the French Revolution, and a number of U.S. companies co... Read story
Cultivating New Business
Loren Schultz breeds new ventures the way some people raise orchids -- in a little box, with the right mix of nutrients and personal attention. He raises ... Read story
If At First You Don't Succeed
How my father tried to reconcile his big ideas with a small-minded world. Read story
Quality Circles
Related Terms: Quality Control A quality circl... Read story
Burning Ambition
Profile and analysis of a start-up manufacturer of waste oil and trash converters. Read story
For You, Our Valued Customer
Business owner applies a systematic approach to customer service, setting his company apart from the rest. Read story
Toward A More Perfect Union
"There are times when I hear union members talking about things like quality and productivity, and I almost feel embarrassed to be part of management. Read story
Captain Kirk And His Spatial Light Modulator
Ron Kirk came back to Findlay, Ohio, with a fireman's commission and a deep curiosity about holography. Today his small company, Holotronics, holds the brigh... Read story
How to Hire a Star Employee
Step 1: Win over the family Read story
Entrepreneur of the Year
A close-up look at the 1995 Entrepreneur of the Year, and how he built the company that won him the title. Read story
Why Smart Companies Are Saying No To Venture Capital
It seemed, at first, like the logical next act in the classic entrepreneurial script. Having developed his new database software on his home-built Heathk... Read story
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