Smaller Business Association of New England

Better Times Are In Reach

Now for some good news. A recent survey the Insight Performance team conducted with SBANE (Smaller Busin...  Read more

When Sbane Talks, People Listen

The Smaller Business Association of New England commands more influence, both at home and in Washington, than its modest size suggests.  Read more

$Atlantic/Tracy, a distributor of bearings and power transmission equipment, headquartered in Somerville, Mass., is trying to be more creative with its cr...  Read more

$For more than 20 years, Black & Webster, a machine tool manufacturer in Waltham, Mass., updated its sales literature for their electropunch. Over the...  Read more

Get Help From Business Peers

Ever catch yourself wishing for a board of directors, just so you'd have more than your own opinion when it came time for hard decisions? Many chief exec...  Read more

Will The Real Small Businessman Stand Up?

Unfortunately, he can't, because he doesn't exist, although everyone claims to speak for him these days.  Read more

Micro Matter

From books to tapes to classes, computer training options are as varied as the computers themselves.  Read more

Back to School

Successful executives head back to business school for further education in management issues.  Read more

Upcoming Events

The National Federation of Independent Business state legislative conferences: March 10, Denver, Colo. Call Jim Henderson at the NFIB in Denver, (30...  Read more

Small Biz Gets No Charge from Electricity Deregulation

Here's why small businesses better pay attention when its electric-utility market becomes deregulated.  Read more

Hanging Tough With Reagan On Taxes

Small business deal makers had to choose between political loyalty to the Administration and attractive offers from Democrats. They made a split decision.  Read more

The Accountant Safety Test

Advice on how growing companies can protect their interests on the accounting front.  Read more

Pollsters Find Small Business Pessimistic

If you believe the findings of a lot of the polls of small business people and surveys of chief executive officers these days times are tough. A rec...  Read more

The Never-ending Controversy

Why the Pentagon will keep spending $7,600 for a coffee maker.  Read more

Is Ronald Reagan Bad For Small Business?

Ralph Nader believes that what's good for small business is good for the consumer, but that Ronald Reagan is good for neither. The Presidential Acco...  Read more

Why Small Business Lost On The Tax Bill

Looking back on the tax fight that occupied Congress and the Administration throughout the summer, lobbyists and even some legislators contend that small ...  Read more

Big Business Cries Foul

Small companies can patent government-funded inventions -- and the big guys don't like it.  Read more

Beyond Uncle Sam And His Gifts

SMALL BUSINESS COULD LOSE AN OPPORTUNITY TO HELP FASHION VITAL NATIONAL POLICY IF IT CONCENTRATES ON SAVING THE SBA.  Read more

The Making Of The President 1988

THERE IS A RISING GENERATION OF POLITICAL LEADERS -- IN BOTH PARTIES -- THAT IS LOOKING TO SHAPE A WHOLE NEW POLITICS OF GROWTH.  Read more

When In Rome

Mike Rooney became a globe-trotter to build a strong network of overseas sales representatives.  Read more

Entrepreneurship Honor Roll *

OUTSTANDING LEADERS Democrats LaFalce, John J. (N.Y.) Mitchell, Parren J. (Md.) Smith, Neal (Iowa) Bedell, Berkley (Iowa)Read more

Now I Know My Abcs

The president of the American Business Conference would have us think that the organization represents the elite of America's growth companies. Think again.  Read more

Power Trips

Some company owners exercise their imaginations not only in the office but out of it. What's striking about their vacations is not where they went, but why.  Read more