Italy


Chicken Grilled Under Bricks

Every grill jockey needs a couple of showstoppers. This one involves chicken and comes from Italy: pollo al mattone , chicken grilled under a bric...  Read story

Autoharping

A new safety service available to Europeans that allows traffic condition messages to be transmitted between cars.  Read story

Why Don't Your Kids Want To Be Entrepreneurs?

Freedom! Independence! The dream of being on one's own! That's the American ethic, nurtured by tales of hardy immigrants who took their lives into their...  Read story

Global Business

Related Terms: Globalization Global business refer...  Read story

Country Profiles

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The American Model Goes Global

When Jean Ichbiah broke away from the Paris-based computer giant Bull (formerly called Cii-Honeywell Bull) in 1980 to start his own software company, he f...  Read story

Where to Go for Help: Europe

Albania Teuleda http://www.teuleda.org.al/index.php?gjuha=eng <...  Read story

Will Your Product `Travel' Overseas?

Survey of current international opportunities in five foreign markets.  Read story

The Immigrant Prince

From Ellis Island to the corner grocery to the country's largest macaroni company, "JP" Pellegrino's story is the story of American enterprise.  Read story

Cutting Costs When Staying in Other Countries

Most consolidators and hotel discount directories cover international as well as domestic locations. You may want to collect several directories to optimi...  Read story

Is America Really Different?

Data showing the roles small businesses play in European economies compared with the role they play in the U.S economy.  Read story

Gas Prices Around the Globe

What are other countries paying per gallon for premium unleaded fuel?  Read story

Join the Club

Think you're too young to sell overseas? You're probably not. Many fast-growing small companies are going global. A poll ofcompanies on the 1993 Inc. 500 ...  Read story

Aquatic Street Sweepers

New business operates and charters pollution monitoring, debris oil cleaning vessels.  Read story

The Second Industrial Revolution

Against a backdrop of economic turbulence, an economist and a political scientist find that changing tastes and new technology may be ushering in an age of c...  Read story

Benchmark: Are U.S. Salespeople Busier?

A graph comparing various facets of a saleperson's day in the U.S. to European counterparts.  Read story

The Diary of a Small-Company Owner

First of a two-part series detailing an entrepreneur's use of an outside board as she struggles to grow her company.  Read story

The Book of Life

The author recounts the business lessons to be learned from 15th century sage Marsilio Ficino's The Book of Life.  Read story

Shoe Faddish

Fads come, and fads go. Here is one that should last about 15 minutes: Shoes-while-u-wait. Actually, the shoes are more like sandals. In Italy, wher...  Read story

And You Think You've Got Tax Worries...

Excerpts from The Wall Street Journal on extreme taxation in Italy and Vietnam.  Read story

Export: One Call Answers All

Source of information on foreign exporting.  Read story

Gift Guide: For the Home

From flower buds to the taste buds--here are some great gifts to use around the house.  Read story

"I need to be able to go anywhere and do anything."

Around the world in 365 days.  Read story

Drives: The Next Generation

Hybrids, military styles, and pickups were all the rage at this year's auto show in Detroit.  Read story

E-mail by Any Other Name. . .

A contributing science editor from the Atlantic Monthly shows how technology has been saving us labor for centuries.  Read story

Feelin' Groovy?

Which nations have the happiest entrepreneurs and which have a problem.  Read story

Global Start-up

CEO's plan for world-wide sale of his medical device that will make certain types of surgery obselete.  Read story

Who's Going Global?

Chart showing numbers of Inc. 500 exporters doing business in specific countries.  Read story

Things I Can't Live Without: Marcy Zambelli

One CEO's hot list.  Read story

No Free Pass

Anti-bribery law is now aggressively enforced.  Read story

Ham Fit For Kings

Kenneth M. Miller makes a hobby of talking with kings, senators, industrialists, major league ballplayers, gas station attendants, and farmers. Miller, pr...  Read story

Recession Feeds Increase of Home-based Businesses

More than half of all businesses in the United States are now home based.   Read story

Exporting the Risk

Setting up direct sales abroad and raising money from European venture capitalists.  Read story

What To Do With All Those Earnings?

Between 1976 and 1980, Nutri/System's revenues increased at a compounded annual rate of 150%. Net income as a percentage of revenues more than doubled, g...  Read story

The Age Of Alliances

The new semiconductor companies are getting their funding from a powerful combination of hungry venture capitalists, aggressive bankers, and -- suprisingly e...  Read story

The Bootstrapper

As a former college basketball player, Katie Kerrigan knew all too well how difficult it was for tall women to find shoes that fit. So she created a trendy f...  Read story

Unconventional Wisdom

Third, the ownership package attracts veteran managers. "We've been fortunate enough for the past six years to have good people knocking at the door," say...  Read story

For Business Owners, a Shortage of Vacation Time

More than half of those that can get away still check in with work once a day.  Read story

Editor's Letter

This month's letter from the editor.  Read story