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Tapping the Community Pool

Online communities let you see what's on your customers' minds.  Read more

Index

A comprehensive guide to companies, organizations, and individuals featured in the February issue.  Read more

Racket Busters

Ed Cornwell unsuccessfully tried incorporating his ferroconcrete into boat-building and fireproofing materials before finally settling on a sound idea: noise...  Read more

Planning Conventions

You may think of trade shows as a pain in the marketing budget, but some companies absolutely depend on such events. Hubbard & Revo-Cohen (HRC), a $2-mill...  Read more

Fear Not

Experts frequently agree that companies should focus on innovation to keep ahead of the competition. However, the author of "Built to Last" suggests that imp...  Read more

Signals For An Upturn?

The Small Business High Technology Institute stands ready to mobilize the private sector and to stimulate the federal governemnt toward maximizing innovation.  Read more

Lines Of Communication

An in-house TV station, the ultimate company newsletter, morning sing-alongs -- some CEOs will do just about anything to keep in touch with employees.  Read more

Book Value

A business writer offers a reading list for entrepreneurs that includes many titles not related to business.  Read more

Your Father's Bank

Burke Herbert is old-fashioned to the core and doesn't want to be anything but a community bank. So why is Citigroup jealous?  Read more

Sing to Me, Baby

Story of a start-up that has invented a market for itself.  Read more

Accounting For Growth

Accounting firms, large and small, are battling for the business of small business. What do these firms really have to offer?  Read more

Graduation Day

Joshua Smith built the fastest-growing black-owned business in America. But can Maxima survive its graduation from the government program that made success p...  Read more

Strategic Alliances

The goal is to combine the resources of America's industrial giants with the speed and agility of its fastest-growing companies -- and it's happening in the ...  Read more

Go Public, Go Big Eight?

Norman Stavisky, a partner in the Boston accounting firm of Stavisky, Shapiro & Whyte, leaned back and laughed. "Look at that!" he said, nodding towar...  Read more

#8 TEMPS & CO. WASHINGTON, D.C. Many INC. 500 companies are wife-and-husband teams, but so far as we can tell, this is the only sister-brother c...  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

The Inc. 500

Note: This table may be divided, and additional information on a particular entry may appear on more than one screen. Sales growth 1980-84 ...  Read more