Stanford University


Recruiting The Best And The Brightest

Stanford University has developed a program that could help solve a perennial problem confronting growth companies: how do you tap into the pool of traine...  Read story

Stanford Hosts Technology Summit

Stanford University this month hosts its fourth annual business summit, which will focus on promising entrepreneurial activities and investments in the gl...  Read story

Managed Competition Gains Admirers

Hillary Clinton health care is back -- and it's working.  Read story

Index

A comprehensive guide to companies, organizations, and individuals featured in the April issue.  Read story

Index

A comprehensive guide to companies, organizations, and individuals featured in the March issue.  Read story

Hotline

New trends in the small business world.  Read story

Acquire Web Content from Outside Sources

You can acquire both text and graphical content from outside sources for your site through syndicated companies that share their content. Obviously this c...  Read story

Shock to the System

A business owner with death anxiety may attempt to build an institution that ensures his or her own immortality. Yalom explains why confronting your mortalit...  Read story

Peter Francis

Age: 34 Hometown: Marion, Mass. Undergraduate Degree: Middlebury College Business School: Graduate School of Business, Stanford Universi...  Read story

Index

A comprehensive guide to companies, organizations, and individuals featured in the July 1998 issue.  Read story

A Wide-awake Way To Rotate Work Shifts

Three health researchers have found a way to help workers adapt more sucessfully to rotating shifts. Last year, Charles A. Czeisler and Martin C. Moore-Ed...  Read story

Tech Entrepreneurs, Academics Gather in Silicon Valley

The fourth-annual Innovation Summit @ Stanford will focus on new-media business opportunities.  Read story

Stanford Preps for Silicon Valley

Stanford University's entrepreneurial internship program primes engineering students for aggressive recruitment by Silicon Valley companies.  Read story

Great Moments In Recruiting

PART 4 But Did They Get A's in the Course? The two engineering students from Stanford University capped of their undergraduate years of friend...  Read story

Hire Education

Looking for bright people to recruit for your company? Statistics show an increasing number of business school graduates are interested in working for sm...  Read story

Getting In On the Action

Universities are on the prowl for deals with entrepreneurs. Here's the lowdown on five tech transfer schools.  Read story

Team Angst

A psychiatrist examines the conflict that often arises in work teams, comparing them with group therapy sessions. A good team relationship, he suggests, requ...  Read story

Campus Businesses Have Fun, Make Profits

The word "demonstration" at colleges and universities these days is more likely to refer to a product demonstration than to a protest march. When student...  Read story

Index

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

Index

A comprehensive guide to companies, organizations, and individuals featured in the September 1998 issue.  Read story

Green Production

The color green is closely associated with environmen-talism—and therefore "green production," "green enterprise," "green business,"and similar tags sig...  Read story

Optimal Firm Size

Related Terms: Economies of Scale Optima...  Read story

Fountain of Youth: The Under 30 Hall of Fame

Some of the biggest names in business got their start before their 30th birthday.  Read story

One More Reason We're Glad We Don't Work For Big Companies

Inc. staffers come up with the same name for a General Mills cereal that it took a consulting firm a year to find.  Read story

Crossover

Nonprofit leaders look, think, and act more and more like entrepreneurs, and here is your chance to meet a few.  Read story

Keeping Electronic Mail Private

As electronic mail, cellular telephones, and electronic banking become more important tools of daily life, there is a growing need for a reliable means of...  Read story

Mad About Me

A disgruntled employee may suffer from an inability to take responsibility for his or her own life--the same inner turmoil that often prompts entrepreneurs t...  Read story

Sleep, the Final Frontier

The experts know that nothing is more important than the right amount of sleep. They also know how to get it.  Read story

Ed Zschau

"I had an awful lot to learn about business . . . I had the conglomerate mentality -- the view that, if you just build one product for one market, you weren'...  Read story

Incentives Can Be Bad For Business

Whether they know it or not, most executives are Skinnerians. It was Harvard psychologist B. F. Skinner who popularized the theory of positive reinforcem...  Read story

It's Lonely at the Top

Many CEOs suffer from feelings of isolation because they have no peers to tell their problems to and they're afraid to show signs of weakness. Here's how to ...  Read story

The Bully Rulebook

How to deal with jerks.  Read story

Should CEOs Multitask?

New research suggests that juggling phone calls, e-mail, and other forms of media may do more harm than good.  Read story

The New Forecasting: Art And Seance

Many entrepreneurs talk about listening to their "inner voices" in making crucial decisions. But lately more and more seem to be interested in hearing oth...  Read story

Resources

A guide to more information on subjects covered in the Inc. magazine special issue: The State of Small Business 1997.  Read story

Back to School

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

EntrepreneurshipWeek USA Kicks Off with Workshops, Networking Opportunities

The first-ever educational event is designed to promote business ownership among high-school and college students.  Read story

How to Get a Good Night's Sleep

The rules are simple: no sugar, no caffeine, and most of all, don't bring work to bed!  Read story

Why Products Fail

It is a report with implications that should reverberate throughout the American economy. It looks at a new industry and asks an old question: What are the m...  Read story

Further Reading: Real Time

A noted business adviser explains why it is so important to understand the effects of time and speed on the marketplace.  Read story