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 story
Toledo
The Deal Maker
The director of a nonprofit organization has helped small businesses bring a Toledo neighborhood back to life. Read story
Divorce;
TO PLAN FOR IT MAY RUIN YOUR MARRIAGE NOT TO PLAN FOR IT MAY DESTROY YOUR COMPANY Read story
Big Notes
Friedmar Music has developed a magnified slide viewer that projects music measure by measure. Read story
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 story
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 story
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 story
Charity Begins at Home
Various ways in which small businesses give back to their communities and why. Read story
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 story
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 story
Finding Limited Partners
Your best bet may be to work your own network. Read story
Real-Time Research Threadless ["Read story
Compensation;
Beyond providing commissions for salespeople, many chief executive officers assume that searching for effective employee incentives isn't worth the troubl... Read story
Fathers and Sons
Personal accounts from fathers and their sons on what it's like to run a family business together. Read story
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 story
To Sell or Not To Sell?
In November 2006, we wrote about the lucrative offer Gary Delman re... Read story
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#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 story
The Skills Crisis
Manufacturer provides in-house training skills to his employees, many of whom are Latin American. Read story
Taking Advantage of Low Rates
Refinancing debts with new, lower borrowing rates. Read story
Class Of '82: Who's Who Among The Acquired
1982 Rank Company Location Acquirer 413. Basic Concept Paterson, NJ Lightolier, subs. Bairnco <... Read story
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 story
Love for the Workaholic
The best dating services for busy CEOs -- like this SWF. Read story
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 story
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 story
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 story
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 story
Safe Self-Insurance
Company reduced insurance costs by reducing coverage, raising the deductible and self-insuring the difference. Read story
Tax Battle Moves to Supreme Court
Ohio business owners argue that large corporations should not receive state tax incentives. Read story
Valuation
Related Terms: Discounted Cash Flow ; Read story
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 story
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 story
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 story
Wordly Wise
Harbor International has prospered for years through global turmoil. Hakan Castegren has seen it all since he launched Harbor International Fund... Read story
Case Study: To Take Private Equity or Not
Raising private equity seemed like the best way to rev up Sunrise Windows. But were the stakes too high? Read story
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 story
The No-tech Solution
Industrial America's graveyard is filled with companies just like Intermatic. But then, they didn't have Jim Miller. Read story
Hot Cities, Hot Sites
The cover story of the December 2000 issue of Inc. magazine, " Best Cities to Start and ... Read story
An Excellent Question
The author of In Search of Excellence answers the 10 questions most frequently asked about his book. Read story
Have It Your Way
Mass customization is a popular trend in the business-to-business arena. Read how manufacturing and communications technology have allowed small companies to... Read story
An Ache In The Heartland
In midwestern "rustbowl" states, bold planning and brassy ad campaigns must do battle with a legacy of bureaucratic neglect and corroded morale. Read story
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