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Lose Weight, Get a Toaster

By Bobbie Gossage |  Jan 1, 2005

The latest innovation in health plans.  Read story

Working on the Highway

By Jerry Useem |  Mar 15, 1996

An overview of a Web-based service for road warriors who need to maintain communications with customers.  Read story

Is My Partnership Fair?

Jul 1, 2004

Is my partnership fair? Plus: Protecting your bright ideas; and buying versus leasing new technology.  Read story

Recruting;

By Reported by Poul B. Brown |  Mar 1, 1988

If your company competes in a crowded field in which experienced, high-quality employees are getting harder to find, maybe you're not looking far enough. ...  Read story

3 Steps to a Better Relationship with Your Banker

By Jan Gardner |  Oct 22, 2001

Your relationship with your banker is never more important than when times get tough. Unfortunately, some business owners tend to steer clear of their ban...  Read story

When Scandal Knocks...

By Nitasha Tiku |  Aug 1, 2007

They say there's no such thing as bad publicity. Tell it to these companies, which found their integrity challenged in the blogosphere, in the papers, and on...  Read story

The Few, the Proud, the Bankable

By Hal Plotkin |  Oct 15, 1998

A look at how companies from the 1998 Inc. 500 managed to land bank loans or lines of credit right from the start.  Read story

Weathering the Great Recession

By Leigh Buchanan |  Sep 1, 2009

The fast-growing companies from the 2008 Inc. 500 saw an opportunity to hire top talent in 2009  Read story

Demographic Shift

By John Case |  May 15, 2001

Who are the new entrepreneurs, and where are the new markets?  Read story

Eat, Drink, And Be Wary

By Donna Sammons Carpenter |  Aug 1, 1984

Travel and entertainment costs don't have to take such a big bite out of your company's budget.  Read story

A Second Act for CRM

By Ellen Neuborne |  Mar 1, 2005

Customer relationship management software is back -- and worth another look. Really.  Read story

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Dec 1, 1986

#8 TEMPS & CO. WASHINGTON, D.C. Many INC. 500 companies are wife-and-husband teams, but so far as we can tell, this is the only sister-brother c...  Read story

Growth: How Fast Is Too Fast?

By Edward O. Welles |  Oct 15, 2000

An overview of the 2000 Inc. 500 list shows that companies today are growing at a stunning pace. But when exactly does fast become too fast?  Read story

Controlling Interest

By Christopher Caggiano |  Oct 15, 1996

Here's one of the many Inc. 500 CEOs who started his company for only one reason--to be his own boss.  Read story

Going Private

By Craig R. Waters |  Feb 1, 1983

Last year a record 90 companies were bought out of corporate empires. When Walter Lovejoy cut loose from Beatrice Foods with his little mold-making company t...  Read story

The Lessons of Bankruptcy

By Tom Richman |  Dec 1, 1990

Interviews with four entrepreneurs, focusing on their bankruptcy experiences.  Read story

Almanac

By Inc Staff |  Oct 15, 1998

A statistical look at 1998's Inc. 500 companies and the CEOs who run them.  Read story

It Takes All Kinds

By Mike Hofman |  Jul 1, 2001

Herb Stokes knows how to make diversity work for his $6-million company. Now he's on a mission to make it work for the rest of corporate America as well.  Read story

The 500

Dec 1, 1987

#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 story

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