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Rough and Rugged

All the dirt on the tough new Land Rover LR3.  Read story

Foreign Affairs

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, " Charles Dickens wrote about the period of the French Revolution, and a number of U.S. companies co...  Read story

Benchmark: Are U.S. Salespeople Busier?

A graph comparing various facets of a saleperson's day in the U.S. to European counterparts.  Read story

Where to Go for Help: Europe

Albania Teuleda http://www.teuleda.org.al/index.php?gjuha=eng <...  Read story

"I need to be able to go anywhere and do anything."

Around the world in 365 days.  Read story

In This Issue

This month's letter from the editor.  Read story

License to Kilt

As Robert Burns might put it: Gie me ae lad wi' ae song O auld; gie me ae man wi' pipes O guld.  Read story

Europe Inc.

In Europe, it used to be that the only thing worse than failing at entrepreneurship was succeeding, and making money. Now, suddenly, entrepreneurship is all ...  Read story

Upstarts: New-Biz Watch

A look at Mark Begelman's MARS, a music and recording superstore that encourages customers to touch the merchandise, plus four shorter articles about the ret...  Read story

Why Incentives Are Not Enough

L. Clinton Hoch has heard the radio jingles for Ireland and has seen the fullpage ads for Scotland, but he is unimpressed. Hoch is executive vice-presiden...  Read story

Britain's New Generation Of Company Builders

How Margaret Thatcher has instituted revolutionary changes in government to save Great Britain's faltering economy.  Read story

Unstatesmanlike Acts;

From giving away land in Kansas to building ski resorts in Kentucky, some public officials will pay just about any price for a few jobs.  Read story

How I Did It: Paul Frank

Some people say he monkeys around.  Read story

Types of Trademarks

The term "trademark" is commonly used to describe many different types of devices that label, identify, and distinguish products or services in the markep...  Read story

Will The Empire Strike Back?

When Margaret Thatcher came to power, she promised to imbue Great Britain with a new spirit of independence.  Read story

"good Leaders Aren't Perfect"

Author Michael Maccoby thinks we've had enough of old-style managers.  Read story

French Foreign Exchange

"Invest in France today? Your company's management must be mad!" a French businessman told the vice-president of a large American multinational firm. Ye...  Read story

Living Like Indiana

He's only a fictional character, but Indiana Jones has the kind of existence many of us envy. By day, he's a respected intellectual, but after hours, he p...  Read story

How I Did It: Sidney Frank, founder, Sidney Frank Importing

"I wanted to be a billionaire," says the man responsible for your Jägermeister headache. At age 85 he stunned the liquor industry by getting his wish.  Read story

Harvesting The Sea

"These guys aren't the same sort of fishermen you'd find in Boston, Gloucester, and other ports. . . These guys are money chasers."  Read story

European Union (EU)

The European Union (EU), formerly known as the European Community (EC), was formed in the 1950s to encourage and oversee political and economic cooperatio...  Read story

No Longer Quiet On The Western Front

Common Market countries are launching a promising initiative to help small business growth. Small businesspeople in the United States should carefully monito...  Read story

Qa: William Brennan On Tax Shelters

New rules for tax shelters, What to do when you sell a business  Read story

The Defiant Ones

Europe has concluded that it must work harder to recognize and nurture growth businesses, and what that means to you.  Read story

Legacy: André Galerne, 1926-2008

An adventurer's approach to life and work.  Read story

This Woman Has Changed Business Forever

The Body Shop mixes business with a devotion to social causes, inspiring both employees and customers.  Read story

Just A Poor, Dumb Dirt Farmer

Colonel Gregory is the fifth generation to farm the rich dirt of Virginia. Truth be told, he's a lot smarter than he makes out to be.  Read story

Coming Of Age

Entrepreneurs and business experts discuss how the 80s changed the way they think about business.  Read story

Create Jobs, Eliminate Waste, Preserve Value

Those six words explain a lot: Why Ken Hendricks is worth $2.6 billion, how he came to be a walking textbook on identifying and exploiting business opportuni...  Read story

The 500

#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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