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Recent Articles about Springfield

Baby Proof

Company tests a new form of birth control.  Read more

Tackling Trucking Turnover

Creating incentives for truck drivers to operate more efficiently.  Read more

New Recruitment Strategy: Ask Your Best Employees to Leave

A look at how large companies are tapping into the entrepreneurial urges of their employees.  Read more

Upcoming Events

The National Association of Women Business Owners (co-sponsored by Triton College) three-day business symposium, May 14-16, Chicago, III. Call Joyce...  Read more

Directory Assistance

Ross Meeker, president of A. R. Meeker Co., an office equipment distributorship in Springfield, N.J., has decided to terminate the bold types. This year, ...  Read more

The Way I Work: Gary Vaynerchuk

Gary Vaynerchuk, a social media marketing guru, splits his time between two companies, and spends every free second tweeting his heart out.  Read more

How Your Bank Evaluates You

Information on a compendium of financial ratios for companies in various industries.  Read more

Scouting Out the Competition

Advice on checking out the competition.  Read more

Resources

A comprehensive guide, including phone numbers, to resources for various articles featured in the July issue of Inc.  Read more

Who Can You Trust?

Why so many entrepreneurs have trouble delegating.  Read more

Could You Market Chocolate Filled With Air?

John Scharffenberger and other entrepreneurs offer advice to Bubble Chocolate.  Read more

When You Need Experts To Help With Your Staff

Business owners have good reason to fear that personnel managers may bureaucratize their companies. But failure to pay for first-rate professional advice can...  Read more

Does This Look Like an Employee to You?

This feature examines how the IRS defines "independent contractors" and "employees" and one company that disagrees.  Read more

Can Chicago Be Saved?

Among the nation's biggest cities, Chicago lags behind, a victim of political division, a big-company mentality, and its own past success  Read more

All Dressed Up and No IPO

While going public can yield a huge payoff for many companies, it can be a disastrous undertaking for others. Here's why Wired magazine's IPO proved a stunni...  Read more

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 more

Economic Forecast: The View from the Front

A view of the 1995 economic landscape from various CEOs, senior managers, and other pundits.  Read more

The Art Of Management

Ten years ago, the two founders of a New York City-based executive search firm spent their first retainer on three prints from a gallery in Greenwich Vill...  Read more

The Private 500 represent 44 states. Geographically, the West wins again on the strength of California's 84 companies -- more than twice as many as any ot...  Read more