Bringing Employees Together
Staples Inc. has many ways of bringing its large and geographically scattered staff together. Read story
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Business Owners Confess to Checking E-mail While Driving, Using Bathroom
A new survey highlights the ongoing time crunch that many entrepreneurs face. Read story
Staples Launches Office Tech Recycling Program
Staples, the Boston-based office-supply firm, this week launched a nationwide computer and office technology recycling program to help deal with the estim... Read story
What Is an Inner City Company?
T he Initiative for a Competitive Inner City defines inner cities as core urban areas with higher unemployment and poverty rates ... Read story
Entrepreneurs Slash Their Salaries
Owners are taking less money to keep from doing layoffs or closing their businesses. Read story
Born to Be Big
Staples, an innovative supermarket for office supplies, braces itself to face new competition. Read story
Guest Speaker: What You Need to Succeed
Treat people right and they will eat nails for you, and other lessons I learned building Staples into a giant company. Read story
FYI: Life in the Fast Lane
Highlights from the 2002 Inc 500 conference. Read story
Road Warrior's Guide to Pit Stops
With the ubiquity of Kinko's and others, local business service support is always nearby. Read story
The Entrepreneur of the Year
Introduction to the Entrepreneur of the Year judges and the selection process. Read story
The Accidental CEO
Beth Williams | Roxbury Technology | Boston The happy story begins sadly. On Thanksgiving morning, 2002, Archie Williams's dream was closer tha... Read story
Clipped!
Linda Froehlich, inventor of the SuperClip, describes how large office-supply companies crowded out her patented product with knockoffs. Read story
Upstarts: Dry Cleaning
An all-starch cast hopes to bring new-economy practices to the grubby business of cleaning people's clothes. Read story
Case Study #2: The Inventor's Best Friend
The Start-up: TechShop The Founder: Jim Newton Menlo Park, California The business proposition: ... Read story
Thomas G. Stemberg: My Biggest Mistake
Thomas G. Stemberg, founder and CEO of Staples Inc., discusses why you should make decisions based on customer preferences first and cost factors second. Read story
If I Had a Hammer…
Six entrepreneurs on how they'd fix a very public mess. Read story
Market Research
With effective market research, you can determine the need for your service, a product's likelihood to sell, target-market demographics, and desirable store ... Read story
Market Research
A guide to effective market research, from online research to focus groups to counting customers. Read story
Written Communication
Related Terms: Communication Systems ... Read story
New World, Ordered
A profile of a 1995 Entrepreneur of the Year runner-up, and how he grew his company to a $1-billion business. Read story
Market Research
With effective market research, you can determine the need for your service, a product's likelihood to sell, target-market demographics, and desirable store ... Read story
Benefits by the Bulk
The superstores' newest product: health insurance. Read story
Communication Systems
Communication systems are the various processes, both formal and informal, by which information is passed between the managers and employees within a busi... Read story
The Shop Floor
Company president spends a month on the floor of one of his retail stores to gain a different perspective. Read story
Start the Presses!
With a little imagination, you can design your company's printed materials without ever leaving your desk. Many online sites offer print services, but how go... Read story
Mail: April 2002
Readers react to articles from recent issues of Inc magazine. Plus, an update on KaBloom, the "Starbucks of flowers." Read story
Create Jobs, Eliminate Waste, Preserve Value
Those six words explain a lot: Why Ken Hendricks is worth $2.6 billion, how he came to be a walking textbook on identifying and exploiting business opportuni... Read story
Sweet Deals
Mrs. Beasley's has created a stellar blueprint for integrating "bricks" and "clicks" businesses through strategic partnerships, superior logistics, and some ... Read story
How Fast Can This Thing Go, Anyway?
Zipcar was a classic founder-run company--long on passion, short on cash. Until a new CEO came aboard, gave the business a seven-step tune-up, and put the pe... Read story
The Right Staff
Richard Tuck, CEO of Inc. 500 company Lander International, has fostered a happy, effective workforce by encouraging employees to integrate work with their o... Read story
This Is How It's Done: Smart Business Moves
30 classic examples of innovation, from the Inc. archives Read story
With Billions of Bytes of Customer Data, How Can Retailers Be " Starved for Information" ?
These days, it seems that both traditional bricks-and-mortar retailers and online "e-tailers" are drowning in a sea of customer information -- knocked by ... Read story
Inner City 100 Hall of Fame
Since the inaugural list in 1999, the Inner City 100 (IC 100) has seen a select group of dynamic businesses return year after year. These beacons of inner... Read story
Profiles of Angel Investors and Groups
As a complement to Inc. magazine's July 2005 feature "Angels With Angles,"* Inc.com shares sixteen more profiles of angel investors, groups and firms,... Read story
Pricing
Related Terms: Loss Leader Pricing ; Read story
How to Compete on Price
A jewelery distribution company uses strategic pricing as its marketing strategy. Read story
What Ever Happened to the Class of 1983?
Profile of Inc. 500 companies from 1983. Read story
Inc. Goes Superstore Shopping-Again
Price comparisons of thirteen office supply discounters. Read story
What Business Would You Start?
Nearly 50 business luminaries, ranging from H. Ross Perot to Ed McMahon, are asked what businesses to start. Read story
The New and Improved American Small Business
A close-up look at what it takes for a small business to battle with giant, nationwide competitors. Read story
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