Marion

Peter Francis

Age: 34 Hometown: Marion, Mass. Undergraduate Degree: Middlebury College Business School: Graduate School of Business, Stanford Universi...  Read more

Star Words

Company has the first U.S. commercial license for using radio signals bounced off of meteor dust.  Read more

Productivity;

Gain-sharing is an idea that first took hold in manufacturing companies, where it was used to reward employees for increased productivity. In recent year...  Read more

SBA to Help Florida Businesses

Feb. 12, 2007 -- The Small Business Administration is offering low-interest federal disaster loans of up to $1.5 million to busin...  Read more

The Formula: Efficiency + Knowing The Market = Success

Just as engineers and scientists frustrated with large electronics companies formed the numerous spinoffs that now dot California's Silicon Valley, many o...  Read more

SBA Offers Loans to Tornado Victims

March 5, 2007 -- The federal government is offering low-interest loans to businesses hit by severe storms and tornadoes in Georgia and Al...  Read more

The Diary of a Small-Company Owner

First of a two-part series detailing an entrepreneur's use of an outside board as she struggles to grow her company.  Read more

Health Insurance Options

Related Terms: Employee Benefits Health in...  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

The Take At The Top;

Recently, an order for castings with an unusually quick deadline came into Bahr Brothers Manufacturing Inc., a foundry and machine shop in Marion, Ind. T...  Read more

How to Take a Local Brand National

"It's all about Facebooking, Tweeting and friending people," says Elaina Scotto of Scotto restaurant in New York City.  Read more

State Decides to Help Itself

Nov. 8, 2004 --Voters in one of the nation's most anemic economic states have decided to give their state a chance to improve its economic...  Read more

The Cultural Evolution

Michael May of Empower Trainers & Consultants has developed an extraordinary corporate culture that helped put his company on the 1997 Inc 500 list.  Read more

Buy The Numbers

John Malec and Gerry Eskin had a great idea for a new company. All they had to do was what no marketing-research firm had ever done before.  Read more

The Productivity-Boosting Gain-Sharing Report

A well-designed weekly gain-sharing report to encourage labor-cost savings that benefit employers and employees.  Read more

The Entrepreneur of the Year

Introduction and list of winners for Inc.'s 1992 Entrepreneur of the Year Award.  Read more

Living Like Indiana

He's only a fictional character, but Indiana Jones has the kind of existence many of us envy. By day, he's a respected intellectual, but after hours, he p...  Read more

How to Launch an Inc. 500 Company

Various strategic ideas used to launch successful Inc. 500 companies.  Read more

"gainfully" Employed

A home-grown gain-sharing plan at Fort Wayne, Ind., foundry has all employees pulling more weight  Read more

Regional Entrepreneurs of the Year

A list of 1992's Regional Entrepreneurs of the Year.  Read more

Happiness Pays

PaeTec Communications is fiercely dedicated to two things: worker contentment and inexorable growth. The company's relentlessly focused CEO takes personal re...  Read more

Turbocharging Customer Service

A look at how various companies are using technology to stay in touch with their customers.  Read more

Targeting the Giant

Drypers won the top spot on the Inc. 500 by going up against Procter Gamble.  Read more

The Hottest Entrepreneurs in America

Profiles of more winners and recognition-worthy entrepreneurs from the Entrepreneur of the Year contest.  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