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Going Back to School

It seems entrepreneurs these days are going back to college. Not to get an education, but to launch businesses on their old stomping grounds. An article i...  Read more

A Buyer's Guide To Events

Looking for a little ROI among the RSVPs? Here's what sponsors pay (and the benefits they receive) at events of all sizes.  Read more

Virtual You

Virtual universities have become increasingly popular with business owners who want more education, but who need a flexible study schedule. A look at these "...  Read more

Steve Prelosky

Age: 30 Hometown: Pittsburgh Undergraduate Degree: Pennsylvania State University Business School: Graduate School of Industrial Administ...  Read more

HR Software Helps Retain Staff

A marketing and retail company near Penn State University found that human resources software helped to institute effective employee reviews and retain the r...  Read more

Universities: Your New Best Friend

For resource-hungry entrepreneurs, the explosion of university-based business-development programs comes as sweet relief in tight economic times. From Ann Ar...  Read more

Proofread Your Content

Spelling errors and other mistakes can diminish your credibility and turn off potential customers, leading to costly customer service problems. Proofread ...  Read more

Online Customer Surveys for Small Business

A variety of companies now offer inexpensive surveys that can help you do market research online.  Read more

Busted: Apps Sharing GPS Data With Advertisers

Let me be clear, this study only covers Android apps. Howeer, researchers from Intel Labs, Duke and Penn State have been working together to track the act...  Read more

How Many Accountants Does It Take to Change an Industry?

Now may be the time to find accountants with upgraded skills, lower prices, and customized services.  Read more

Terminal Illness

Instead of relying on the vendor to repair its video display terminals (VDTs), Collegian Inc., a newspaper publisher at Pennsylvania State University, hir...  Read more

Boosting Small Business

Overcoming an antibusiness bias The idea of states cutting red tape for development permits and business licenses is nothing new, but Oregon has add...  Read more

VC Fundraising Grows in the Second Quarter

July 20, 2005 --A survey released Monday by the National Venture Capital Association and Thomson Venture Economics found that venture cap...  Read more

Index

A comprehensive guide to companies, organizations, and individuals featured in the January issue.  Read more

Private Lives;

A sampling of America's pacesetters shows that the CEOs are as diverse as the products and services they sell.  Read more

Resources

A comprehensive resource guide to many of the subjects featured in the April issue of Inc. magazine.  Read more

Of Mice And Mettle

A stone's throw across the Charles River from our Boston offices lies Harvard University, home of the Harvard Business School, and a symbol of Establishme...  Read more

Do-It-Yourself Aid

Is college around the corner? Families too wealthy for need-based aid are turning to the tax code to help pay the bill. Ashley Young, 18, is begi...  Read more

Succession Planning Not Just for Top Execs

The words "succession planning" are usually associated with finding the right people to fill the highest-level positions. But planning for future s...  Read more

Imagine Your Best Employees Vanishing Overnight. For Beekeepers, It's Reality

Nearly a quarter of the nation's bees have died from a mysterious disorder in just the past few months.  Read more

Corporate Universities for Small Companies

Corporate universities are no longer just a big-company phenomenon. Small companies can use in-house training programs to improve recruitment, increase reven...  Read more

Mail

This month's letters to the editor.  Read more

Who Turned Down $100 Million?

Path, that's who. Plus, a Super Bowl gamble, highly successful companies you've never heard of, and the rest of the day's news.  Read more

How to Handle a Spike in Sales

As the economy improves, company owners face a new challenge: How to handle a spike in sales.  Read more

High On The Hog

In the end, they'll call it corporate vision. But to Don Beaver, it looks more like years of false starts, wrong turns, and belated inspiration.  Read more

What Entrepreneurs Can't Learn at Business School

Spreadsheets are handy tools -- but nothing can replace that fire in the belly.  Read more

A Better Way to Surf?

Firefox fans say the new Web browser is more secure than Internet Explorer. Should your company switch?  Read more

A Better Way to Surf?

Firefox fans say the new Web browser is more secure than Internet Explorer. Should your company switch?  Read more

Broken Promises

The bitter truth about partnerships between large automotive corporations and their suppliers.  Read more

Stephanie Kaplan, Windsor Hanger, and Annie Wang, Founders of Her Campus

A trio of Harvard students take a campus publication online and discover a promising business opportunity.  Watch video

There's Gold In Them Thar Hills

For those small companies engaged in technological innovation, the Small Business Innovation Research program can be a rich source of funding.  Read more

Would You Fire Someone for Taking Time Off to Donate a Kidney?

A mother's attempt to save her son spotlights holes in the Family and Medical Leave Act: It doesn't apply to businesses with fewer than 50 employees.  Read more

The Real Threat From Asia

Hong Kong and Singapore have seen their future, and it is not providing cheap labor for American know-how.  Read more

Breaking Away

This year's crop of M.B.A.s has more in mind than investment banking and high-paying consulting jobs  Read more

Everyone's a CFO

When Andrew Levine opened his PR firm's books, employees seemed bored. So he asked them to make the financial presentations instead.  Read more

Restoration Software

An Internet company seems an odd fit for a depressed former factory town. But since Shore.Net moved to Lynn, Mass., company and city have been riding each ot...  Read more

The Education of a Big-Company Man

Jim Kilmer's years at H.J. Heinz didn't prepare him for company-building as well as he had expected.  Read more

The Entrepreneur of the Year

Introduction to the Entrepreneur of the Year judges and the selection process.  Read more