The Wall Street Journal


The Importance of Being Ethical

Companies with strong ethics programs have found that these efforts can reduce potential costly fines, decrease vulnerability, improve reputation, provide...  Read story

Business And The Business Press

When I'm out on speaking engagements, I'm often asked why the general business press pays so little attention not just to women-owned companies, but to em...  Read story

That's Easy For You To Say

"The IRS also is suspending rules for initial adoptions by partnerships and S corporations (taxed similarly) of years that let owners defer income for thr...  Read story

Whose Company Is It Anyway?

FaxPoll results from October, 1992: respondents favor sharing equity with employees.  Read story

But What Do You Major In?

Maybe the growing numbers of insider trading cases involving people in their twenties and thirties has convinced Scribner Bookstores Inc. that the younger...  Read story

Tips From A Banker

Fewer than 10% of prospective borrowers come to a bank adequately prepared. And bankers haven't the time to dig for the facts they need. Unfortunately, t...  Read story

And You Think You've Got Tax Worries...

Excerpts from The Wall Street Journal on extreme taxation in Italy and Vietnam.  Read story

Well Huey, Why Don't You Ask Dewey And Louie?

For jobs that require social skills, some companies are interviewing more than one person at a time.  Read story

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Working for a magazine like INC. can easily lead you to believe that the use of computers by managers is a reality, not merely a promise of what is to com...  Read story

Are You Really Focused on Profits?

Business owners run their business to make money, right? Then why do so many owners make unprofitable decisions?  Read story

Budgets and Budgeting

Related Terms: Business Planning In the br...  Read story

10 Tips for Marketing Success

Know what you want to achieve before spending a penny. According to The Wall Street Journal, only 14% of small businesses...  Read story

How Business Can Be Good

In a recent front-page article in The Wall Street Journal, Jacob Schlesinger wondered, "Why has the '90s so far eluded the 'Decade of Greed' labe...  Read story

The Major Business Database Vendors

A look at the major business database providers  Read story

What are the top marketing magazines and databases?

Marketing & Advertising mentor Lisa H. Buksbaum responds: The top marketing magazines and databases include: Read story

Coming Unplugged

Inc. magazine's editor-at-large finds that getting on-line in a hotel can be a battle, but that's okay!  Read story

Editor's Letter

Casting off and moving on.  Read story

Conversations with Your Customers

I have a request. I'd like you to climb aboard the Cluetrain with me. All aboard! The train I'm alluding to is ...  Read story

The Corpocracy's Last Gasp

The raiders accuse corporate managers of incompetence. The managers accuse the raiders of greed. In this case, they're both right  Read story

Budgets and Budgeting

A detailed explanation of how to budget, types of budgeting, the benefits, and the critiques of the budgeting process.  Read story

Tv Gets Down To Business

There is nothing exceptional about the outside of the graffiti-scarred garage on New York's West Side. But inside Matrix Studios, an entrepreneurial gambl...  Read story

How Interest Rates Compare

Here are some representative interest rates as reported in March. The relationships among them change daily, so check current yields before committing mo...  Read story

Understanding the Economy

People worry that a recession is coming. But by the time one arrives, most economic harm has already happened.  Read story

What If I Vote " No" ?

Q: " I' m on the board of a growing manufacturing company, and our chairman/CEO is launching a strong acquisition program. He' s worked out a deal to ...  Read story

Loss Leader Pricing

Related Terms: Pricing Loss leader pricing is an aggressive pr...  Read story

Packaging

There is a saying in the packaging industry to the effect that "everybody thinks he is an expert on the subject." The implication of this judgment is that...  Read story

Finding A Place Among The Best-sellers

Writing a best-selling nonfiction book isn't easy. Writing one, publishing it, and promoting it without any experience in publishing or marketing is even...  Read story

Go Public Through the Back Door

Forget about an initial public offering, says Tim Halter, president of the Halter Financial Group, in Dallas.HFG specializes in helping private companies ...  Read story

One Dozen Powerful Strategies for Avoiding Thieves, Spies, Con-Artists, and...

As we tell clients, if it's out on the street, it's in your workplace. If there are people "out there" who are abusive, harassing, discriminatory, violent...  Read story

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About PR...

Advice on PR strategy with regard to the market, not the media.  Read story

Tastes Great...Less Filling

The job-generation debate detracts attention from the truly vital issues.  Read story

The Passing Of The Broker's Boardroom

With the arrival of interactive computers and radios that sound alarms and talk back, an office-bound investor no longer is at the mercy of a broker's teleph...  Read story

Instant Web, E-Paper, Fishing for Ideas

Three CEOs review new software packages.  Read story

Yes, No, Maybe So

The silent treatment: It's one of the oldest tactics in journalism; you can make it work for you, too.  Read story

Manager Recruitment

Related Terms: Span of Control ; Read story

How I Did It: Michael Sitrick, Chairman and CEO, Sitrick and Co.

You're getting buried in the press? You can't get your side of the story out? For business leaders and celebrities alike, Michael Sitrick is the PR man who m...  Read story

Syndicated Loans

Related Terms: Finance ...  Read story

Travel;

The next time you hear your employees grousing about jet lag and the miseries of airline food, you might remind them that frequent flying does have its re...  Read story

Manufacturing;

If you're running low on production capacity, now may be a good time to think about farming out some of your work to a good subcontractor. U.S. manufactu...  Read story

Going Through Channels

For those of you who are interested in checking out what television has to offer this fall in the way of business news, here is a brief survey: * "W...  Read story