Mercedes-Benz International Inc.

Business for Sale: Southwestern Mercedes-Benz Service Center

Looking for a deal that will rev up your engines? Consider this independent Mercedes-Benz service-and-repair center. Profile includes price, valuation method...  Read more

Recognizing The Warning Signs

AS PHILIP CROSBY UNHAPPILY DISCOVERED, EVEN THE most familial companies can be ripped off. And few are fortunate enough to recover much of the money.  Read more

"The biggest dread of a venture capitalist is to fund a new business and then, when he visits the site, to see the chief executive officer's Mercedes-Benz...  Read more

What Companies Are Saying About Venture Capital

When I started Viking Systems last October, I took a seminar on financing high-technology companies and researched the subject of venture capital financin...  Read more

No Boom For The Recyclers

For the first time in anyone's memory, bad economic times haven't meant boom times for the automotive aftermarket. Historically, sales of used car parts h...  Read more

When "No" Should Really Mean "Yes"

Sharon Newman (CEO) and Seth Newman (President) are the dynamic mother-and-son team behind Action Envelope , a ...  Read more

New Defender For Small Business

Small business deserves its day in court. So thinks San Francisco lawyer Timothy H. Fine, founder of the Small Business Legal Defense Committee, a new or...  Read more

The People's Marketing

Why more marketers are daring to let customers take charge of their advertising.  Read more

What You Learn on the Other Side

For some CEOs the best management lessons come from their lives as customers.  Read more

Grist: Leno Brands Versus Letterman Brands

Like late-night TV hosts, brands today fall into one of two categories: iconic or ironic.  Read more

Recruiting;

Awarding bonuses to employees who recruit new people has been an effective management ploy since the days of the Model T, but these days you may do better...  Read more

Social Networks: Up And Down The Social Register

For companies that market to niches, one of these specialized social networks may be a better value.  Read more

Know Why They Buy

All customers make their buying decisions based upon one of these reasons: Economic They believe the purchase will make them ...  Read more

Fear Of Capitalism

Entrepreneurism is the most creative -- and revolutionary -- activity in the American economy. Most politicians would just as soon do without it.  Read more

What Does Your Company Mean?

Robert Bradford, CEO of the Center for Simplified Strategic Planning, explains that what a company thinks its product line means to its customers and what cu...  Read more

Montgomery on the Move

One of the Deep South's most embattled cities now offers opportunity and diversity.  Read more

Pilgrims and Indians

It's that time of year when we remember a historic coming together of two sides, each of which had much to be wary of. I'm speaking of Pilgrims and Indian...  Read more

All-in-one Accounts

When Merrill Lynch Pierce, Fenner & Smith Inc. introduced its Cash Management Account (CMA) in 1977, it undoubtedly expected a lot of competition. Tha...  Read more

Three Scary Words: "Buy It Used"

With more people buying stuff used, companies have to rethink everything from a product's durability to the terms of their warranties.  Read more

Name-calling

What the name of your company and products says about you and your business.  Read more

Know Your Place

Assessing the attractiveness of your industry and strategically positioning your company.  Read more

Why Daughters Are Better

When it comes to training for the job, winning the respect of employees and customers, and easing the pains of succession, 'daddy's little girl' is probably ...  Read more

Changing Course

Companies these days have to change constantly just to survive, but some changes are bigger than others. Sometimes you even transform your company from one t...  Read more

"you'd Be Surprised How Easy It Is To Succeed"

David Wolfberg had big plans for his Miami architectural firm. Too big, as it turned out.  Read more

Why Every Company Needs a Story

Every company needs a story to help management and employees remember what matters most for their business.  Read more

Futurist Laurel Cutler

A decade ago she warned her clients of consumers who would shop K mart in the morning, Saks in the afternoon, and define their very being by their choice of ...  Read more

Tomoji Tanaka: A Paper Entrepreneur

In the face of barriers thrown in their way by the government and the corporate elite, Japanese entrepreneurs have succeeded largely through their own rem...  Read more

The Pros And Cons Of Prosecution

As Philip Crosby unhappily discovered, even the most familial companies can be ripped off. And few are fortunate enough to recover much of the money.  Read more

The Pros And Cons Of Prosecution

As Philip Crosby unhappily discovered, even the most familial companies can be ripped off. And few are fortunate enough to recover much of the money.  Read more

Adam Osborne

"When you become an entrepreneur you can go up awfully fast, but you can go down just as fast. It's so ephemeral, like actors who end up committing suicide. ...  Read more

Knockoff Punch

To stay ahead of the "me-too" competition, the makers of the "itty bitty" book light rely on innovation, lawyers, and a Chinese detective agency.  Read more

The New You

Developing brand identity to distinguish your product or service.  Read more

Auto Entrepreneur;

He had no product, no experience, and no money. But that didn't stop Harvey Lamm from building one of the most successful car companies in America  Read more

Assets And Liabilities

For the CEO of a fast-growth company, yesterday's strength may be today's weakness.  Read more

High Rise And Handsome

Far from the glamorous valleys of high technology, the fastest-growing private company in the United States has been casting handsome profits from poured con...  Read more

A Quantified Success

Profile of a successful start-up in the bicycle industry.  Read more