Kay Branz
Age: 35 Hometown: Chicago Undergraduate Degree: Smith College Business School: J. L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern... Read story
Kellogg School of Management
Create a Culture of Change
The years ahead promise even faster and more fundamental change forfamily firms. Industry consolidation, shrinking strategic life cycles,e-commerce, globa... Read story
Executive Education: Inc. Shops the Top Marketing Programs
A list of five sales-and-marketing "executive ed" programs, with information such as tuition, length and phone numbers. Read story
The Gift That Keeps On Giving
Bored with the standard class gifts the graduating MBAs at Northwestern University's Kellogg Graduate School of Management this year decided to get into t... Read story
What They Do (and Don't) Teach You in Business School
An M.B.A. will help you run an established business, but it can't provide the real-world experience needed to run a start-up. A look at when an M.B.A. comes ... Read story
Ask Inc.
Managing the mediocre, avoiding lawsuits, and starting over in a new place. Read story
How The Survey Was Conducted
Early this year, we set out to survey members of the M.B.A. class of '87 with the goal of gaining some insight into who they are, what they believe, and w... Read story
Ask Inc.: Launching an Internship Program
Q I run a one-person jewelry design business, and I'd like to bring on an intern to help me. Where should I look, and how do I e... Read story
The IT Talent Shortage
The dearth of American IT professionals has given high-tech workers the leverage to command premium salaries and perks from companies desperate to attract... Read story
The Discomfort Zone
CEO of nation's sixth-largest broadcast group tells how the fear of failure must be overcome in order to be successful. Read story
Customer Feedback
Communicating directly with the people who buy your product. Read story
The Walking Time Bomb
How to defuse an abusive business partner; making the decision to buy rather than rent. Read story
Leisure Pursuits
Why marketers are increasingly trying to reach people on vacation. Read story
NFL Players Head Back to School
Some of the game’s big names are sharpening their business acumen at Harvard and Wharton this off-season. Read story
Naming Your Price
Using imaginative pricing strategies to increase profit. Read story
Ask Inc.
Dodging Dun & Bradstreet; a sticky succession issue. Read story
Been There, Doing That
As researchers study how women do business, they're finding women-owned companies offer some interesting strategies. Read story
How to Assemble a Board of Advisers
How to set up a board of advisers to help you run your small business Read story
U.S. Trailing in Innovation and Competitiveness
America is ranked sixth behind Singapore, Sweden and South Korea. Read story
What's Next: The Dashboard Dilemma
Do you manage by the numbers? Be careful if you do: Your data may be playing tricks on you. Read story
The Classroom vs. the Real World
For years, business schools have been criticized for focusing too much on analysis and not enough on practical experience. But as more and more students turn... Read story
NFL Players Learn the Art of the Deal
Inc.com tagged along with stars of the gridiron as they headed to classes at Wharton. Read story
Mail: April 2002
Readers react to articles from recent issues of Inc magazine. Plus, an update on KaBloom, the "Starbucks of flowers." Read story
Letters
Readers react to articles from the February issue of Inc., including Jill Andresky Fraser's "How to Finance Anything" and Jerry Useem's "All Dressed Up and N... Read story
ABCs of Cost Control
New software promises to expose your true costs and tell you which customers are profitable. Read story
Valuations 2004: What's Your Company Worth Now?
How, and by whom, valuations are established. Read story
Breaking Away
This year's crop of M.B.A.s has more in mind than investment banking and high-paying consulting jobs Read story
Too Cool For School?
After years of loathing M.B.A. programs, here's why today's savvy entrepreneurs are now seeking these degrees. Read story
Where the Money Is
Venture capitalists are awash with cash. Are start-ups getting more of it? Plus: How three untrendy companies have managed to get VC investments. Read story
It's Not Easy Being Green
Jeffrey Hollender and Alan Newman disagreed about strategy, fought bitterly -- and created two successful companies. They'd set out to change the world, but ... Read story
The Oprah Effect
After scoring a coveted spot on The Oprah Winfrey Show , these Inc. 500|5000 companies saw their sales skyrocket. Read story
The Matchmaker
An anatomy of start-up Career Central, a matchmaker for companies and business school graduates. Includes CEO Jeffrey Hyman's business plan, financial strate... Read story
The Perfect Internet Business
Garden.com is one of the hottest Internet companies around, but what's so special about it is how basic it is. Here's what you can learn from the secrets of ... Read story
How to Raise an Entrepreneur
The key, Michelle Rousseff Kemp found, is to bar your kids from the family business. Read story
Inside an Internet Incubator
Incubators can be lifesavers for fledgling dot-coms, but Veritas Medicine may be regretting its decision to join one. Read story
Sales: What Works Now
Perplexing as the current sales environment may seem, there are strategies for coping with it. Inc surveys the changing entrepreneurial landscape to... Read story
Bootstrapping: Great Companies Started with Less than a Thousand Dollars
CEOs from 11 different companies share tips and suggestions on how to fund a start-up with under $1,000. Read story
The Best Business Plan on the Planet
Go behind the scenes with one of the judges at Moot Corp., a world-renowned business-plan contest hosted by the University of Texas at Austin. Read story
Brief Profiles of 2001 Inc 500 Companies
Unusual stories and interesting statistics about companies on the 2001 Inc 500 list. Read story
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