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Bush Pledges Boost to Health Care

Feb. 1, 2006 --Amid rising health-care costs for small employers nationwide, President Bush vowed to extend a program of personal tax-free...  Read more

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I Know How She Feels Phaedra Hise's account of being an entrepreneur's spouse resonated deeply with me ["Read more

In a Former Life: Alan Schultz

This CEO learned a valuable lesson during his past life as a steelworker: A company should compensate its sales force based on fair and reachable short-term ...  Read more

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Friendster's Footsteps The rise and fall of Friendster is a great reminder of why we're entrepreneurs ["Read more

Clip No More

The scene is common: The shopper, fumbling at the checkout counter for a cents-off coupon, realizes that it is sitting, useless, in a drawer at home. Q-Co...  Read more

Driving A Hard Bargain

DOING BUSINESS WITH BIG BUSINESS ISN'T AS SIMPLE AS IT USED TO BE. BUT THE PAYOFFS ARE STILL ENORMOUS.  Read more

Escape From Meeting Hell

It's time for another soul-sapping, oxygen-depriving, time-wasting, mind-numbing company meeting. Or is it? We offer 15 clever solutions to the problems with...  Read more

Suddenly Solo

Surviving a messy partnership split isn't easy. But a Handful of this year's Inc 500 entrepreneurs have discovered the joys of going it alone.  Read more

The Last Shift

The world of competition and technological change seen through the eyes of an American machine operator  Read more

An Excellent Question

The author of In Search of Excellence answers the 10 questions most frequently asked about his book.  Read more

Here Comes The Neighborhood

A listing of nine high-growth neighborhoods in and around older, slower-growth cities.  Read more

Made in the USA

Small U.S. manufacturers, once dismissed as the dusty underbelly of the economy, are quietly becoming one of the hottest sectors around. And you'll never gue...  Read more

The 500

#13 APPLIED SYSTEMS INC. UNIVERSITY PARK, ILL. You saw it in the stock market. You've seen it in the merger-and-acquisition activity. ...  Read more

The New Face of Confidence

Business leaders may be better positioned than they have been in years to make smart calculations about growth and strategy. Here's why.  Read more

The Private 500 represent 44 states. Geographically, the West wins again on the strength of California's 84 companies -- more than twice as many as any ot...  Read more

#8 TEMPS & CO. WASHINGTON, D.C. Many INC. 500 companies are wife-and-husband teams, but so far as we can tell, this is the only sister-brother c...  Read more