Manhattan


We really know our business. How do we advertise that?

Neil Rosenblum, owner of three Manhattan Pet Stop stores, has found a way to publicize his staff's expertise. At the company's Upper East Side location, e...  Read story

Ground Zero: The State of Small Business

Joe Caccesse, a loan officer for the Small Business Administration, hasgotten used to mass disasters. He started out with the SBA in Northridge,California...  Read story

The Power Lunch

* Lee Iacocca ate two dozen raw clams on the half shell at his first interview for the top spot at Chrysler Corp. * John C. D. Bruno, owner of The P...  Read story

Att: Opportunity Calling

"The AT&T Building in Manhattan" (Behind the Scenes, May) gave excellent examples of the excitement and challenge that the true entrepreneur seeks. Pa...  Read story

Bad Batch

My office is located in the City Hall area of lower Manhattan and (coincidentally and conventiently) within walking distance of two Mrs. Fields Cookies st...  Read story

Regus Opens New Business Center in Manhattan

Fully furnished and equipped offices provider The Regus Group has opened a new business center in Manhattan at 260 Madison Avenue, its 17th in New Yo...  Read story

N.Y. Steam-Pipe Victims Offered Loans

Small business affected by the steam pipe explosion in midtown Manhattan on July 18 are now being offered low-interest federal disaster recovery loans by ...  Read story

My Place: Sandy Chilewich's Showcase in the Sky, New York City

Finally Sandy Chilewich has the perfect showcase for her contemporary home goods.  Read story

Divide and Conquer

Brooke Barrett, part owner of Manhattan East Suite Hotels, in New York City, resists the temptation simply to assign geographic territories to the sales f...  Read story

The Return Of The Native

"I'm a believer in building up the area in which you were raised, in which you made your fortune," Arthur Imperatore declares. And, if all goes according ...  Read story

Here Comes the Neighborhood

Start-ups are reenergizing urban neighborhoods across the country.  Read story

Still the Best Places to Do Business

A public-policy expert explains why some big cities are the best place for successful entrepreneurial commerce.  Read story

New York Now: Small Businesses Show Resourcefulness -- But 13,000 Still in Lurch

A group of seasoned company owners are showing resourcefulness in difficult times. Here's how they've been able to survive the economic downturn and the deva...  Read story

Almost Famous

When The Apprentice needed a call center for one of its contests, the producers called AnswerNet. But this Inc. 500 company ended up on the cutting ...  Read story

Fighting Back

Street Smarts The terrorist attacks could claim even more victims unless businesspeople take steps right now to make sure ...  Read story

The End of the World as We Knew It

The great achievement of the past two decades is that we've now learned everything necessary to create businesses that grow. But will we ever design business...  Read story

The Art of the Deal

People assume that the high bid always wins. But looking beneath the surface, you may find factors that are more important to closing the deal.  Read story

Letter From Ground Zero: Down But Not Yet Out

They didn't lose their lives on September 11, but they did lose businesses and customers. Hundreds of millions of dollars that were supposed to have come to ...  Read story

It's Swing Time

Corporate America is suffering from bipolar management disorder. Quick, put on some Ray Charles.  Read story

Business for Sale: Want to Get Into the Spy Game?

Looking for an opportunity that will tap into your inner James Bond? Check out this manufacturer and distributor of surveillance products.  Read story

Grist: Micromanagers, Unite!

Confessions from a real-life micro-manager -- and how our company can benefit from a little meddling.  Read story

Grist: Micromanagers, Unite!

Confessions from a real-life micro-manager -- and how our company can benefit from a little meddling.  Read story

A Message to My BlackBerry

A message to my BlackBerry: In January, I made a pledge to put you away. Instead, I'm more addicted than ever. How did our relationship become so dysfunctional?  Read story

A Moving Experience

Relocating your business can be an agonizing and expensive experience. But when you weigh the benefits against the costs, moving could be the best thing you ...  Read story

Fitness-Focused Hotels

Fitness expert Jim Kaese shares his favorite hotels for the fitness minded business traveler.  Read story

How To Keep Families From Feuding

When the author's husband went to work for her father, everyone suffered. Then she discovered 16 rules of making a family business run smoothly.  Read story

But What Do You Major In?

Maybe the growing numbers of insider trading cases involving people in their twenties and thirties has convinced Scribner Bookstores Inc. that the younger...  Read story

The Problem With Confidence

Entrepreneurs are proud of their appetites for risk. But how much is enough?  Read story

Grist: The Sad End of the Bad Reference

Résumés, like ads in the personals column, are marketing documents intended to sell at best, deceive at worst.  Read story

Grist: A Passport to America

How blue staters and red staters can learn to communicate and do business.  Read story

15 Tips for Smarter Tradeshow Travel

From booking a flight to working the exhibit hall, here's how to make the most of your conferences.  Read story

Bush Signs Tax-Cut Bill

Oct. 4, 2004 -- President Bush signed his fourth tax-cut bill in as many years during a signing ceremony at a Des Moines, Iowa, YMCA today...  Read story

Things I Can't Live Without:
Will Powley, Mad*Pow

Will Powley, founder of Mad*Pow, keeps a playground ball and a beer cooler close at hand to keep work fun  Read story

High Concept: I'll Take Manhattan

A new way to build computer memory chips takes its inspiration from the Manhattan skyline: when space is at a premium, build up rather than out.  Read story

Info Line

A new phone service puts a wealth of information at New York's fingertips.  Read story

Do-It-Yourself Phone-Fraud Safeguards

9 precautions to help prevent phone-fraud.  Read story

Grist: What's in Store for '04

From "perfect storming" to CEOs as name-brands, here are some trends poised to take shape in 2004.  Read story

The Exit Strategy: Cashing Out and Other Premeditated Escapes

It was probably Jehovah who conceived the first one, and then some time later he charged Moseswith its execution. Churchill had one at Dunkirk. Westmorela...  Read story

E-Town, USA

Entrepreneurs all over the country are taking matters into their own hands and transforming their communities into wired cities. Here's how you can compete f...  Read story

Managing and Real Estate

How to coax a retiring executive to pass on her vast knowledge. Plus, setting up a New York satellite office on the cheap and the found of Zingerman's on hir...  Read story