Insurance: Protecting Against Disability
Sobering fact of the month: According to insurance-industry statistics, you are more likely to suffer an accident or illness that disables you for at leas... Read story
Saks Inc.
How I Did It: Bobbi Brown, Founder and CEO, Bobbi Brown Cosmetics
In New York in the excessive 1980s, Bobbi Brown made it big by pushing moderation. She became makeup artist to the stars by introducing a palette of natural ... Read story
Ask Inc.
Safeguarding your Web store from scammers, signing a private-label deal. Read story
Television;
IT ISN'T EXACTLY "Let's Make a Deal" -- no studio audience members dressed up as dinner salads, no contestants betting the lawn furniture against whatever... Read story
Containing a Counter Culture
Retail today is all about serving customers, and the people behind the counter need to realize that they are the culture. Techniques are discussed for recrui... Read story
Things I Can't Live Without: Fred Schwam
CEO of American Christmas Decorations, which creates holiday displays for more than 300 New York City businesses, including Radio City Music Hall, Bloomingda... Read story
Timing's Everything
A CEO recounts how she brought computers online in her office in a short amount of time and how you can do the same. Read story
Appreciating Gifts: Look Past The Present
Let's face it: The cheese straightener you bought your brother-in-law last December 24th was probably packed back in its box and shunted to the basement. ... Read story
The Case For Paying Chargebacks
Chargebacks are the dirty little secret of the fashion industry. The idea is that retailers force vendors to make good on the full markup to the wholesal... Read story
Sole Success
The Swartz brothers combined old-time quality, a new sales strategy, and a lot of luck to move their boots from Army-Navy stores to Saks in just two years. Read story
180s CEO Steps Down
July 18, 2005 --Brian Le Gette has stepped down as CEO of 180s LLC, the performance apparel company he founded in 1994 with former classma... Read story
Packaging: When It's Time for a Makeover
Partners from a gourmet-biscuit company explain how and why they pursued a new design for packaging their products. Read story
Plans for Growth
In order to fuel her company's growth, Lori Bonn Gallagher, CEO of Lori Bonn Design, needs significantly more capital than she's gotten so far. Read story
New Proflts For Nonprofits
Pinched by cutbacks in government funding, nonprofit organizations are entering the marketplace in more and more aggressive ways. That has prompted compla... Read story
Stop The Presses
Arandell-Schmidt, once known as a calendar printer, totally repositioned itself to go after the catalog market. Read story
The Markdown Blues, Revisited
It's been a while since I've read anything quite like this. Part food fight, part mud wrestling, part theatre of the absurd. A recent New York... Read story
The Inner City 100 Profiles: 51-60
NO. 51 SLR Contracting & Service Buffalo Construction services Read story
Brand Demands
The CEO of an apparel company and the man behind Timberland weigh in on brand integrity. Read story
Starstruck
Jane Fonda starred in the marketing campaign for her ill-fated line of exercisewear. But Ron Mester's company landed the leading role in the ensuing tragedy. Read story
High And Dry
Imports have not stopped Peerless Umbrella Co. In fact, it's growing faster than ever. Read story
Betsey Johnson, Betsey Johnson
for her stylish life Read story
Videoconferencing for the Rest of Us
A close-up look at some new technology making the face-to-face phone call affordable. Read story
Beating the Post Office at its Own Game
Entrepreneur Scott Adler tries to beat the Post Office by offering a new mailing service Read story
Good Neighbors
The secret to General Growth's top performance in the REIT business: John Bucksbaum knows how to make competing tenants accept one another. Any c... Read story
Growing By Design
To succeed, Salaminder had to temper its spontaneity with sound business planning. Read story
Case Study: A Quota on Profit
Lafayette 148 had high hopes for its new Chinese factory. Then it encountered an unforeseen problem: trade restrictions. Read story
It Only Looks Easy
He's the cool boss, the take-a-year-off-to-snowboard guy, the company owner who leads by doing only what he loves. But he's also an intense and talented busi... Read story
Good Move, Monty
Experts said computer Scrabble couldn't be done, but programmers from the Iowa cornfields have packaged a fast-thinking, tough-minded, hand-held little playe... Read story
Boot Camp
Timberland's marketing staff was thinking upscale, the salespeople were pushing a lower-priced line, and the future of one of America's most promising growth... Read story
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