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When the Medium Is the Mediator
Former president Jimmy Carter reflects on technology's role in healing the inner city in this interview. Read more
Jimmy Carter
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The White House Small Business Conference;
THE SIMILARITIES BETWEEN THE White House Conference on Small Business that met last August and the conference of the same name that met under Jimmy Carter... Read more
An Agenda With Presidential Stature
Jimmy Carter, one of the youngest Presidents to serve in the White House, addressed a meeting of Young Presidents' Organization Inc., held in Hawaii in Fe... Read more
The Wrong Remedy
Perloff Bros. Inc., a Philadelphia-based wholesaler of Tartan Foods, wanted to expand and had found just the way to do it. A small wholesale grocer in ups... Read more
A Failure To Communicate
Small business may have a special Presidential report, but until some more fundamental changes occur, it will never have much clout with the President. Read more
What's The Difference Between Politicians And Cottage Cheese?
Not much, at least from a marketing standpoint. And that's where David Sawyer comes in. Read more
Legacy: Carla Cohen, 1936-2010
She built not just a bookstore but a community. Read more
What's In A Name?
With the profusion of political lables, there is more need than ever for small business to create an identifiable image. Read more
Aah, Those Were The Days
Inflation topping 15%, the prime nudging 20%, and business failure rates skyrocketing. When it came to starting a company. . . Read more
Who Loves You More? A Debate Between Partisans
GOP: What's good for America is good for small business. Democrats: What's good for small business is good for America. Read more
Going Global, Part 6: The Politics of Maps
If you turn to page 100 of the April issue or click here , you will find what we consider to be the ... Read more
Scorecard;
Running the United States from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue requires many of the skills of a corporate chief executive. But few Presidents arrived at the Whi... Read more
Four Pros Nominate Their Personal Favorites
Stock-market turmoil. Skyrocketing deficits. Fears for the future. OK, economists of the world, what one book would you recommend for understanding -- or ... Read more
An Rfc For Today: A Capital Idea
The Democrats are ready for a national economic strategy. Felix Rohatyn's plan for a new Reconstruction Finance Corp. leads the debate. Read more
Marching On Washington, '80s Style
Will this be the small-business conference that finally figures out the difference between being small and thinking small? Read more
The President's Message: An Historic Event
On March 1, in response to the Small Business Economic Policy Act of 1980, Ronald Reagan sent to Congress the first annual "State of Small Business" repor... Read more
Deregulation Blues
TELECOMMUNICATIONS MODEL SUGGESTS THAT DEREGULATION WON'T BOOST ENTREPRENEURS. Read more
How I Did It: Serial Entrepreneur Richard Heckmann
Buy fearlessly, sell ruthlessly, repeat regularly. How Richard Heckmann takes struggling companies and sells them for billions Read more
Legacy: James Benson, 1945-2008
A One-Man Space Program Read more
What CEOs Are Reading
A book review by a CEO of Bob Woodward's book 'The Agenda: Inside the Clinton White House.' Read more
The Political Odyssey Of Bill Nourse
How a mild-mannered hardware store proprietor joined a new breed of savvy, small business activists. Read more
A Bear Market In Olympic Souvenirs
Misha, the Moscow bear was one of the biggest losers in the history of Olympic licensing. It wasn't the product. "Being in the stuffed toy business and kn... Read more
Defying Gravity
Some of America's iconic companies took flight in gloomy times. Read more
'Rebranding Leadership'
Harriet Rubin, author of The Mona Lisa Stratagem , has spent a lifetime trying to rewrite the traditional rules of business. So what's she setting he... Read more
Beware The Trojan Horse
Inside those Japanese auto plants are the seeds of destruction for thousands of small U.S. companies Read more
Fear Of Capitalism
Entrepreneurism is the most creative -- and revolutionary -- activity in the American economy. Most politicians would just as soon do without it. Read more
Fast-growth Candidate
Other Presidential hopefuls have tried to sell themselves to the entrepreneur. Jack Kemp is the first to market entrepreneurship to the rest of the country. Read more
Second Thoughts on Growth
Analysis of a new generation of business owners, and growing a company in light of the last decade. Read more
Looking For Trouble
Unlike most venture capitalists, Harvest Equities is betting on its ability to turn around ailing companies in sunset industries. Read more
Democrat Bruce Babbitt
An Arizona governor rejects both the industrial-policy gurus of the Left and the supply-siders of the Right. Meet the candidate of the radical center Read more
Main Street, Inc.
Forget rebel, forget misfit, forget poor boy makes good. A new study shatters old myths about the entrepreneur. Read more
Now I Know My Abcs
The president of the American Business Conference would have us think that the organization represents the elite of America's growth companies. Think again. Read more
Bitter Harvest
They can breed a cow with half again as much beef as those raised by their grandfathers and grow 160 bushels of corn an acre instead of 80. Their revenues ar... Read more
Will Reagan Turn Off The Sbic Spigot?
The President's men don't like government lending. That may mean the end of the SBIC program is near. Read more
Requiem For An Entrepreneur
Allan Gallant was building one of the most successful businesses in Alaska's history -- until his employees turned on him. Read more
"I'm John Burgess. I'm Here to Help You"
International Profit Associates, a two-time Inc. 500 winner, became a $100 million company by selling $20,000 consulting jobs to thousands of small ... Read more
Do-It-Yourself Marketing
Guide to do-it-yourself marketing, advertising, public relations. Read more
Will The Real Sba Please Stand Up?
Ronald Reagan thinks of the SBA as a welfare agency. Congress thinks of it as a pork barrel. Most entrepreneurs try not to think about it, period. Maybe we s... Read more
Introducing The 1986 Inc. 100
Like a bunch of adolescents, the companies on the INC. 100 are an unsettled lot. They have grown so fast that their knees ache. They have consumed capit... Read more
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