Blacks In Business: Are They Reluctant Entrepreneurs?
"The Reluctant Entrepreneurs" is the best article I have read regarding minority businesses. The truth about support among blacks couldn't have been bette... Read story
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Blacks In Business: Are They Reluctant Entrepreneurs?
I have just read "The Reluctant Entrepreneurs" and am very impressed. I thought it was very informative and realistic, with not a hint of biased viewpoin... Read story
Blacks In Business: Are They Reluctant Entrepreneurs?
Paramount among the factors affecting the development of black business enterprise has been the postindustrial restructuring of the U.S. economic system. ... Read story
Blacks In Business: Are They Reluctant Entrepreneurs?
After reading "The Reluctant Entrepreneurs," I was a little disappointed to see that no one mentioned what I -- as a successful black entrepreneur of 14 y... Read story
Bridging the Digital Divide
In the United States, it's an unfortunate reality that basic opportunities and values that come from having a good education are not, traditionally, besto... Read story
Wisdom Won the Hard Way
Bill Aberman's first business failed when his sole customer, the federal government, made cut-backs. Now, his current Inc. 500 company, Personnel St... Read story
The Other Pin Drops
Robert Putnam, former dean of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, talks about the Internet and our sense of community. Read story
Blacks In Business: Are They Reluctant Entrepreneurs?
Joel Kotkin's sense of history is skewed, and his sociological analysis of black culture is sorely lacking in depth and quality. Although Kotkin deftly d... Read story
Urban Outfitters
Inner-city businesses are finding that some of their best friends are in city hall. The mayors of many cities across America -- including Austin, Chicago, Cl... Read story
Blacks In Business: Are They Reluctant Entrepreneurs?
Joel Kotkin's article "The Reluctant Entrepreneurs" (September), is a manifest example of "bikini journalism." What it reveals is interesting and provocat... Read story
How I Did It: Jerome Boykin, Owner, JB Sweeping Service
Hurricane Katrina left Jerome Boykin jobless and aimless. Now he runs a growing cleaning business. How visiting a shopping mall parking lot changed everything. Read story
The Great Leaders Series: Madam C.J. Walker, Founder of Madame C.J. Walker Enterprises
By assembling a grassroots sales force, this pioneering African-American entrepreneur built a multimillion-dollar enterprise in the Jim Crow era. Read story
Parallel Universe
What's an expanding city to do when it runs out of room? Take it online. Read story
Test Case
For a guy bent on bringing down a multibillion-dollar federal program for minority contractors, Randy Pech is pretty low-key. Read story
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