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Bad Dreams Are Made Of This

A business owner faces his worst nightmare: cutting his trusted staff. Plus: Motivating your managers.  Read more

Nothing Down

Ways companies stretch financial resources trim cash outflow.  Read more

The 500

#13 APPLIED SYSTEMS INC. UNIVERSITY PARK, ILL. You saw it in the stock market. You've seen it in the merger-and-acquisition activity. ...  Read more

'extension Courses' For Top Executives

In an electronic variation on correspondence schools, business executives are taking courses by "computer teleconferencing" from a new management institut...  Read more

Network

Readers react to articles in Inc. Technology , 1999, #4, including "Cell Wall," by Jeffrey L. Seglin; "Make Way for Duck Links," by Leigh Buchanan; "...  Read more

Report On The States;

CENTER OSSIPEE, N.H., IS NOT THE sort of town that makes you think instantly of twenty-first-century America. Deserted by the railroad and skirted by Rou...  Read more

Rx

If All Else Fails, Increase Your Alpha Waves.  Read more

Straight Answers: How Can You Survive the Regulators?

Five CEOs from different industries take issue with various governmental regulations and how they impact on business.  Read more

No Casual References

Many companies offer "referral bonuses" to employees for recommending job candidates who ultimately join the company.But some companies have discovered Read more

Win a Free SMB Communications Makeover

Fortune 400 companies save vast sums through greater efficiencies -- and for SMBs, streamlining can be a contest for life itself.  Read more

There's No Harm in Asking

Requiring rapid payment from customers to finance orders when bank credit is tight.  Read more

Hand-Me-Down Hardware

Buying "pre-owned" IT equipment can save small or mid-size businesses money while helping out the environment at the same time.  Read more

Winning Numbers

A business financial expert details how to pick a good low-end accounting program.  Read more

Two's Company

Charlie Vaughn had an idea for an award-winning product, but found he had to start and manage two businesses at once to get it on the market.  Read more

Take Flight To Boost The Bottom Line

Many small companies are discovering the benefits of flying their own aircraft.  Read more

Bread In Boards

While the personal computer business has developed into a battleground for the giants, with the likes of IBM Corp. and Apple Computer Inc. duking it out f...  Read more

On-the-Cheap Market Research

Using libraries, knowledgeable CEOs, and university professors to gather inexpensive market research.  Read more

Network: March 1992

Network reader-to-reader advice.  Read more

Do You See What I See?

Owners and CEOs of fast-growing companies discuss the likelihood of national and regional recession.  Read more

What's Next: Do It Yourself

Searching for a new chief information officer? Take a look in the mirror.  Read more

Charged Up: Electric Vehicles

Three start-ups that are developing, converting, and manufacturing electric vehicles.  Read more

The Inc. Network

Reader-to-reader advice.  Read more

Do It Yourself

Searching for a new chief information officer? Take a look in the mirror.  Read more

Rich Ideas

Reviews of five new business books -- two about creating wealth and giving it away; two on the importance of differentiation; and a basic guide to writing a ...  Read more

CEO's Regret #5: Hiring the Wrong Executive

Behind every successful CEO probably lurks at least one major regret. The best, or the luckiest, CEOs learn from their mistakes and get an opportunity to ...  Read more

New! Improved! Manufacturing

Suddenly, the shop floor is where the action is.  Read more

Note: This table may be divided, and additional information on a particular entry may appear on more than one screen. Sales Growth '77-'81 ...  Read more

Software Selection: Budget Accounting Software

A look at five inexpensive small-business accounting software packages.  Read more

Survey

Survey responses from Inc. 500 CEOs on a variety of small business and economic issues.  Read more

Industries In Transition

Terry Dorman's parents didn't pay much attention when their 19-year-old son and his friend Peter Bogdonoff set up a silk-screening shop in the Dorman base...  Read more

Public Companies: $156,000 At The Top

Executives of smaller publicly held companied enjoy fatter paychecks and broader perks than their counterparts in smaller private firms. That's the concl...  Read more

Flexible High Flyer

Would you like to lure big-time executive talent to your company? Do you worry that you can't afford to pay the kind ofsalaries big companies offer? Somet...  Read more

Recruiting Secrets of the Smartest Companies Around

An ever-tightening job market calls for rigorous, creative recruiting techniques. Here are some of the good-old-fashioned ways to find workers, plus some new...  Read more

Going Their Way

Whatever else catapulted them to the peak, it wasn't conformity to the norms of business  Read more

If Only...

Want to hear about somebody else's business regrets? Seven Inc. 500 company founders tell all.  Read more

Coping with AIDS

How a company endured the trauma of losing one of its most valuable employees to AIDS.  Read more

Hire Finance

At what point in your company's growth are your bookkeeper and controller out of their league? A look at choosing the right time to hire a CFO, where to find...  Read more

The Inc. 500

Note: This table may be divided, and additional information on a particular entry may appear on more than one screen. Sales growth 1980-84 ...  Read more

Natural Partners

New businesses create a major trend by forming partnerships with established companies.  Read more