Peter Francis
Age: 34 Hometown: Marion, Mass. Undergraduate Degree: Middlebury College Business School: Graduate School of Business, Stanford Universi... Read story
Marion
Star Words
Company has the first U.S. commercial license for using radio signals bounced off of meteor dust. Read story
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 story
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 story
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 story
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 story
Health Insurance Options
Related Terms: Employee Benefits Health in... Read story
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 story
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 story
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 story
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 story
How to Conduct Market Research
A guide to using market research to understand who your customers are and what they want Read story
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 story
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 story
The Entrepreneur of the Year
Introduction and list of winners for Inc.'s 1992 Entrepreneur of the Year Award. Read story
The Productivity-Boosting Gain-Sharing Report
A well-designed weekly gain-sharing report to encourage labor-cost savings that benefit employers and employees. Read story
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 story
How to Launch an Inc. 500 Company
Various strategic ideas used to launch successful Inc. 500 companies. Read story
"gainfully" Employed
A home-grown gain-sharing plan at Fort Wayne, Ind., foundry has all employees pulling more weight Read story
Regional Entrepreneurs of the Year
A list of 1992's Regional Entrepreneurs of the Year. Read story
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 story
Turbocharging Customer Service
A look at how various companies are using technology to stay in touch with their customers. Read story
Targeting the Giant
Drypers won the top spot on the Inc. 500 by going up against Procter Gamble. Read story
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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 story
The Hottest Entrepreneurs in America
Profiles of more winners and recognition-worthy entrepreneurs from the Entrepreneur of the Year contest. Read story
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