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Baby Proof

Company tests a new form of birth control.  Read story

Tackling Trucking Turnover

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

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 story

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 story

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 story

How Your Bank Evaluates You

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

Scouting Out the Competition

Advice on checking out the competition.  Read story

Resources

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

Who Can You Trust?

Why so many entrepreneurs have trouble delegating.  Read story

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 story

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 story

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 story

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 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

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 story

Economic Forecast: The View from the Front

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

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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 story

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