Sara Lee Corporation

The Good, The Bad, And The Questionable;

What follows is a quick sampling of recently created names -- some terrific, some not, and some that could go either way. Since company size can determin...  Read more

Delivering Effective Customer Service

No matter what horrible, maddening customer-service experience I might share with you, you could no doubt match it with several of your own. Who hasn't f...  Read more

What Would You Do If?

I found this New York Times article about Sara Lee's Kiwi shoe polish pr...  Read more

Racial Discrimination

Related Terms: Affirmative Action Racial...  Read more

Employee Reviews

The employee review is as old as business itself - it is a powerful, if often misused, tool. Done correctly, an employee review can act as a morale booste...  Read more

Hard-Time Start-Ups

Inc.'s editor-in-chief offers a list of some of today's best-known companies that started in the Great Depression.  Read more

Yelp Co-founder Ducks Out

Yelp co-founder leaving company. A little less than six years after launching review site Yelp with his former PayPal co-worker Jeremy Stoppelman, ...  Read more

Picking a Prime Partner

Entrepreneur teamed up with 'legend' of the cardboard industry to launch his new product, Box Boy.  Read more

Japan is the second-biggest market for technology products in the world, but most U.S. companies find it impossible to crack. The primary reason isn't tr...  Read more

Selling Software With An Estee Lauder Image

Think of your software program as a can of tomatoes. Or a new skin moisturizer. C. Rowland Hanson does, and he is trying to market software with the same ...  Read more

Cashing In On Cds

Federally insured jumbo certificates of deposit have always been good investments -- they are safe, and they yield higher-than-average rates of interest. And...  Read more

The Second Life of a Cisco Co-Founder

Each day, Inc.'s reporters scour the Web for the most important and interesting news to entrepreneurs. Here's what we found today:   ...  Read more

The Revenge Of The Fortune 500

When companies as big as Campbell start thinking like entrepreneurs, small companies had better start thinking about new ways to compete.  Read more

How to Start an Inc. 500 Company: Six Common Questions

Six Inc. writers each examine one common question about starting a successful business.  Read more

May The Force Be With You

How Au Bon Pain discovered a way to turn lackluster clock-punchers into a team of gung ho professionals  Read more

Ben's Big Flop

When Ben Cohen, cofounder of Ben Jerry's, decided to start Community Products, a company that would donate most of its profits to worthy causes, ...  Read more