Lake Michigan


From Dancing Dots to Floating Restaurants

Sampling of start-ups from 20 small-business development centers.  Read story

Things I Can't Live Without: Andy Berliner

The CEO of Amy's Kitchen likes veggie burgers, sure, but why so many cell phones?  Read story

The Builders

A cleaner environment starts at home and at work. Now, how's that headache?  Read story

He Knows Where You Work

Greg Daniels, creator of The Office , on why most bosses just don't get it.  Read story

Selling Your Business: A One-Shot Challenge

Bob McNary isn't afraid of a challenge. He fell off his boat, stark naked, 21/2 miles from shore in northern Lake Michigan 20 years ago. In waters that ca...  Read story

An Oil Company That Rigs The Odds

Reef Petroleum of Michigan shows that in the risky, high-stakes game of oil, success is more than just a roll of the dice. It is gambling made science.  Read story

Hot Seats;

THIS CAN'T BE THE PLACE. THAT was my first thought. We'd already driven 30-odd miles west from Grand Rapids -- down bumpy back roads, past cornfiel...  Read story

The Years of Living Dangerously

The story of how a small group of pharmacies has survived one economic plague after another over the past 25 years.  Read story

A Summer Fave Gets Saucy and Strategic

The company barbecue can be a rare business opportunity, but it has to be well done.  Read story

Parallel Universe

What's an expanding city to do when it runs out of room? Take it online.  Read story

The Buyers

A look at what happens when a husband-and-wife team with a big-business background buy a small business in Maine.  Read story

You Can Take It With You

Hard-driving entrepreneurs hit the road in their high-tech mobile offices.  Read story

How to Raise an Entrepreneur

The key, Michelle Rousseff Kemp found, is to bar your kids from the family business.  Read story

Whipped!

When tiny Henri's Foods took on Kraft's Miracle Whip salad dressing, it didn't know what it was getting into. Then again, neither did Kraft.  Read story

Let the Good Works Roll

How an entrepreneur can master the extreme sport of philanthropy while running a growing company.  Read story

Mail

Business by the Bay I was fascinated by Leigh Buchanan's piece on Tranquilo Bay ["Read story

The Education of an Educated CEO

When Jeff Koeze took over his father's company, he knew almost nothing about it or any other business. But he knew how to learn, and 12 years later, he runs ...  Read story

The Man With the Golden Touch

Restaurateur accounts for his success through attention to detail and psychological therapy.  Read story

The Year in Start-ups

A survey of some of America's most fascinating new companies. (1989)  Read story

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