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No Fund

Honeywell cancels plans for a $10-million fund to help small companies fight patent infringement.  Read more

The Change Masters, By Rosabeth Moss Kanter. Simon Schuster, 1230 Avenue Of The Americas, New York, Ny 10020, 432 Pp., $19.95.

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 more

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 more

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 more

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 more

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 more

A Call To Action

Jim Pinto is betting his company on a humanistic approach to commerce that makes Action Instruments everybody's business.  Read more

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 more

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 more

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 more

What the Experts Forgot to Mention

Model team-based management company still struggles with the complexities of its system.  Read more

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 more

Funny Business

Company develops home-monitoring bracelets for prisoners based on an idea from a Spiderman comic book.  Read more

Why America Is Losing The Technology War

Foreign companies are years ahead of American corporations in taking advantage of our own innovations.  Read more

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 more

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 more

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 more

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 more

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 more

Opposite Attractions

A look at the two winners of the 1994 Master EOY titles, their companies, and the runner-up.  Read more

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 more

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 more

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 more

What's Next: Introducing the CamPuter

Imagine 10 million surveillance cameras, digitized and linked.  Read more

Hot Spots

INC.'s list of the 50 fastest-growing U.S. cities  Read more

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 more

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 more

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 more

The Birth Of An Industry

Working in their attics, basements, and garages, seven entrepreneurs tacked together a totally new industry.  Read more

If At First You Don't Succeed

How my father tried to reconcile his big ideas with a small-minded world.  Read more

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 more

Burning Ambition

Profile and analysis of a start-up manufacturer of waste oil and trash converters.  Read more

Quality Circles

Related Terms: Quality Control A quality circl...  Read more