Toledo

The Deal Maker

The director of a nonprofit organization has helped small businesses bring a Toledo neighborhood back to life.  Read more

You Can't Run A Company By The Numbers Alone

When Ken Carpenter looked at the finances of Curtis-Toledo, he saw a few simple problems. After he bought the company, he found the reality was more complica...  Read more

Divorce;

TO PLAN FOR IT MAY RUIN YOUR MARRIAGE NOT TO PLAN FOR IT MAY DESTROY YOUR COMPANY  Read more

Product Differentiation: When a Rival Came Spying

A founder's advisers explained she had better differentiate her business from the competition, and how she managed it.  Read more

Big Notes

Friedmar Music has developed a magnified slide viewer that projects music measure by measure.  Read more

Time Management;

Time is money, so they say, and you can waste a lot of both if your business keeps you out on the road. That was the problem confronting Jim Poure, presi...  Read more

Court Strikes Down Ohio's Corporate Tax Credit Program

September 10, 2004 -- A recent ruling by the Cincinnati-based 6th United States Court of Appeals threatens to disrupt how states lure big...  Read more

Charity Begins at Home

Various ways in which small businesses give back to their communities and why.  Read more

Feeling The Heat

A new lighting sensor saves energy and even bestows Promethean powers. Called Infracon, it detects body heat and turns lights on when someone enters the r...  Read more

How to Handle Crazy Demand

Robert Croak, creator of Silly Bandz, remembers life at the center of a craze.  Read more

Real Entrepreneurs Don't Plan

Planning is dull, boring, the province of large-company bureaucrats -- or so goes the entrepreneurial myth. The truth is that planning is the key to being fa...  Read more

Finding Limited Partners

Your best bet may be to work your own network.  Read more

Mail

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To Sell or Not To Sell?

In November 2006, we wrote about the lucrative offer Gary Delman re...  Read more

Compensation;

Beyond providing commissions for salespeople, many chief executive officers assume that searching for effective employee incentives isn't worth the troubl...  Read more

Going for Broke

Harold McMaster, founder of Solar Cells, Inc., hopes to universalize solar energy, but has put off making a buck to take R D further. But will his ...  Read more

Fathers and Sons

Personal accounts from fathers and their sons on what it's like to run a family business together.  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 Skills Crisis

Manufacturer provides in-house training skills to his employees, many of whom are Latin American.  Read more

Taking Advantage of Low Rates

Refinancing debts with new, lower borrowing rates.  Read more

Love for the Workaholic

The best dating services for busy CEOs -- like this SWF.  Read more

The Mentor System

Like so many company owners, Jim Poure knew that his greatest challenge was to find experienced managers for General Alum -- so he developed a plan to grow h...  Read more

Class Of '82: Who's Who Among The Acquired

1982 Rank Company Location Acquirer 413. Basic Concept Paterson, NJ Lightolier, subs. Bairnco <...  Read more

A Golden Alternative

Using alternative airports is a form of creative ticketing that airlines don't really object to, but they will not offer alternative airport options when ...  Read more

States Fight to Reinstate Business Tax Credits

Sept. 29, 2004 --Kentucky, Tennessee, and Michigan have joined Ohio in launching a legal counterattack to try and reinstate a popular busi...  Read more

Tax Battle Moves to Supreme Court

Ohio business owners argue that large corporations should not receive state tax incentives.  Read more

Safe Self-Insurance

Company reduced insurance costs by reducing coverage, raising the deductible and self-insuring the difference.  Read more

Captain Kirk And His Spatial Light Modulator

Ron Kirk came back to Findlay, Ohio, with a fireman's commission and a deep curiosity about holography. Today his small company, Holotronics, holds the brigh...  Read more

Why Everybody's Talking About "just In Time"

A new approach to reducing costly inventories may seem like a lot of common sense, but for many U.S. companies, it is revolutionizing the way they run their ...  Read more

Valuation

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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 more

The Fire-fighting Ceo

The next time you are in Findlay, Ohio, you might drop by the northside fire station and ask for Captain Ronald Kirk. A nine-year veteran of the force, he...  Read more

Using Technology To Serve Customers

Inside salespeople, who traditionally have been responsible for taking orders, can now focus more and more on generating sales, because of a variety of ne...  Read more

Wordly Wise

Harbor International has prospered for years through global turmoil. Hakan Castegren has seen it all since he launched Harbor International Fund...  Read more

More Tax Cuts! More Spending! More Four-Point Plans!

The economic plans are coming fast and furious. Whoa --there goes another one! Here's a rundown of what McCain and Obama have put on the table in the last...  Read more

The Jim Collins Routine and Facebook's New Valuation

Facebook's $10 billion valuation . About a week after news surfaced that Facebook had reportedly turned down a $200 million investment, the social n...  Read more

The Entrepreneur of the Year: Our fifth annual company-building awards

Introduction and list of judges and winners for Inc.'s 1993 Entrepreneur of Year Award.  Read more