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The Supreme Court Backs Cut-rate Distributors

By Leslie M. Schultz |  Aug 1, 1984

Discounters, take heart. The U.S. Supreme Court is on your side. This spring, the Court affirmed a $10.5-million judgment in favor of Spray-Rite Service...  Read story

Dark Sides Of Intrapreneuring

By Donald H. Slocum |  May 1, 1985

Such companies as 3M, DuPont, Monsanto, and Procter & Gamble have practiced forms of intrapreneurship under other names for years ("Secrets of Intrapr...  Read story

Hotline: Small Business News from April 1988

By Martha E. Mangelsdorf |  Apr 1, 1988

Keep an eye on the Texas Quality Consortium, a group of 12 Dallas electronics companies that banded together last October to form what may be the nation's...  Read story

The Economy of Ecology

By Robert A. Mamis |  Sep 1, 1991

Available book on corrective steps a company can take to protect the environment save money.  Read story

The Right To Compete

By Jerome S. Lamet |  Dec 1, 1983

In the name of free enterprise, the Reagan Administration is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to let big business dictate resale prices.  Read story

The Buzz Factory

By Nancy K. Austin |  May 1, 1998

Tattoo, Inc., a low-profile San Francisco marketing firm, has amassed an impressive group of blue-chip clients with its uncanny ability to define the essence...  Read story

The Gamma Ray Gourmet

Aug 1, 1983

The nuclear industry has had its problems lately, but help is on the way. Sometime in the next few months, the Food and Drug Administration is expected to...  Read story

Double Billing

By JAY FINEGAN |  Mar 1, 1988

Your company generated hazardous wastes. You took great pains to have it disposed of properly. The waste site was badly run. Now, the government wants you to...  Read story

Consolidation;

By G.C. |  Jan 1, 1986

WHEN RALPH TAYLOR, PRESIdent of a sunflower-seed company, saw that he needed a major investment in technology in order to stay competitive, he did what mo...  Read story

Index

By Inc Staff |  May 1, 1998

A comprehensive guide to companies, organizations, and individuals featured in the May issue.  Read story

Skating Rinks Finally Warm To His Product

Feb 1, 1982

Gene Plattner would like to make ice obsolete, and with his Skate On, he may be able to do just that. Skate On, Plattner's St. Louis -- based compan...  Read story

Let A Thousand Flowers Bloom

By Eugene Linden |  Apr 1, 1984

Some of America's biggest corporations are discovering that their future may depend on thinking small.  Read story

All the President's Men

By JAY FINEGAN |  Feb 1, 1989

Biotech firm fights federal bureaucracy by turning government into a partner and ally  Read story

Turf Wars

By Edward O. Welles |  Feb 1, 2000

Tiny upstart FieldTurf plans to beat leviathan AstroTurf at its own game.  Read story

Making The Best Of A Bad Thing

Jun 1, 1983

They say it is an ill wind that blows no man to good. Or, to put the matter somewhat differently, there is nothing wrong with a plague of locusts if you h...  Read story

The New Dog-Eat-Dog Nonprofit

By Donna Fenn |  Jul 1, 1995

The profile of a non-profit educational camp for at-risk kids and how it learned to compete for corporate funding.  Read story

Jon Pritchett's Dream of Reviving AstroTurf Became a PR Nightmare

By Andrew Park |  Sep 1, 2008

Should he go all out to save the brand?  Read story

Tail Spin

By Curtis Hartman |  Mar 1, 1985

PBA was an airline in disgrace. Peter Van Arsdale had two weeks to save it. He did. Then the next disaster struck.  Read story

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