Peace Corps


Recent Articles about Peace Corps

Peace Corps Alums Share Entrepreneurship Tips

The National Peace Corps Association and Social Edge, an online community of social entrepreneurs, are offering a series of online audio interviews with f...  Read more

From Peace Corps to Entrepreneurial Hardcore

Jude Carter's home a...  Read more

Mark Gearan: My Biggest Mistake

One of the biggest mistakes you can make is not trusting your instincts.  Read more

Cross-Cultural Solutions

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A Little Enlightened Self-Interest

Patagonia's Yvon Chouinard and Winning Workplaces's Ken Lehman talk about values, ethics, and why companies that treat employees well have a business advantage.  Read more

Letter from the Editor

Limited access to capital can actually make business owners smarter and their companies stronger. If you doubt this, read our cover story on Inc. 's ...  Read more

A Fair-Trade Valentine

A look at companies that are making chocolate and doing good  Read more

4 Fatal Errors of Web Writing

We've logged lots of online hours searching for sites that illustrate the Web writing principles in our new course: Writing for the Web. After chec...  Read more

4 Fatal Errors of Web Writing

We've logged lots of online hours searching for sites that illustrate the Web writing principles in our new course: Writing for the Web. After chec...  Read more

Big Help in the Big Easy

Organizers of New Orleans Entrepreneurship Week estimate the event will provide some $900,000 worth of consulting to local businesses.  Read more

How I Did It: Tumi's Charlie Clifford

How Charlie Clifford listened to consumers, salespeople, and employees to build Tumi into a powerful luggage brand  Read more

I'll Be Back

For entrepreneurs, retirement doesn't mean forever.  Read more

Senator Rudman Takes On The Bureaucrats

He's one politician who has actually done something for small business.  Read more

Doing Company Community Service Abroad

Here's how Better World Books sends employees abroad to help its nonprofit partners. The experience combines social entrepreneurship with team building.  Read more

New Grant Program Looks to Help N.O. Companies Create Revenue

A $100,000 grant has been earmarked for 20 businesses of fewer than five employees that are working to bring tourism to the area.  Read more

A Peace Corps For The 1990s

Editor suggests redistributing economic know-how from the few to the many.  Read more

Bootstrap Banking

For decades, the federal government has tried in vain to bring entrepreneurship to the poor. Now, a small Chicago bank may have found the answer in -- of all...  Read more

How I Did It: Reed Hastings, Netflix

The founder of Netflix on developing a passion brand, and sustaining it as passions change.  Read more

The Chinese Way Of Business

What appears to be a good old-fashioned family business may be a $100-million international conglomerate  Read more

On Display

Founder Gordon Segal's sense of selling as theater has made Crate Barrel one of the world's most admired and imitated retailing operations.  Read more

Playing Hard to Get

In a highly creative arrangement, an upstart apparel maker manages to sell its brand to footwear giant Timberland--without actually giving up the brand. The ...  Read more