U.S.S.R.


The Cold Shoulder

By Don Van Tuyl |  Apr 1, 1986

I commend Ralph Gregorian's courage and determination in taking on the government of the Soviet Union. Few governments, let alone men, have enough courag...  Read story

USSR yellow pages

By Inc Staff |  Apr 1, 1991

Available Soviet Independent Business Directory with key information on Soviet companies.  Read story

How I Did It: Howard Dahl, President and CEO, Amity Technology

By Howard Dahl |  Apr 1, 2007

Negotiating with commissars. Bartering for payment. Surviving the crash of the ruble.  Read story

Silicon Steppe

By Craig R. Waters |  Jan 1, 1984

The prevailing winds of technological change may blow from West to East, but a growing number of U.S. companies are riding the countercurrents, turning co...  Read story

Sign of the Times

By Martha E. Mangelsdorf |  Jun 1, 1990

U.S. entrepreneur markets Soviet souvenir tee-shirts in Russia.  Read story

The Ceo Who Came In From The Cold

By Joshua Hyatt |  Jan 1, 1986

U.S. exporter Ralph Gregorian was kicked out of the Soviet Union on spy charges he says are outrageous. So he did what any red-blooded entrepreneur would do:...  Read story

Upstarts: The Russian Connection

By Marc Ballon |  Jul 1, 1999

Entrepreneurs who've emigrated from the former Soviet Union are shrewdly benefiting from the crumbling economy of that once-mighty empire. And they aren't th...  Read story

How to Be a Local, Anywhere

By Pat McGovern |  Apr 1, 2007

If you're a leader, lead. When my company explores a new market, I'm the first one off the plane.  Read story

Back in the U.S.S.R.

By Doron Swade |  Jun 15, 1996

A museum curator suggests Russia's BESM supercomputer may have been superior to ours during the Cold War.  Read story

Workers' Rights: Caveat Employer

By James Castagnera-Cain |  Sep 1, 1982

Even without a union, your employees have certain rights under federal law that you should know about.  Read story

Update: Crime And Punishment

By Joshua Hyatt |  Feb 1, 1987

Raphael Gregorian is hardly the portrait of a victorious man. He works out of a windowless basement office. His small company, which once had sales of a...  Read story

The Inc. 100 Portfolio;

May 1, 1986

* Six INC. 100 chief executive officers once worked for IBM Corp. * Symbion Inc. (#43), which makes the Jarvik-7 artificial heart and other artifici...  Read story

Antitrust Slowdown

By Steven H. Blackwell |  Jul 1, 1986

As a very small and very independent businessman, I take the strongest exception possible to the hysterical claptrap of "Busting the Trustbusters" (Washin...  Read story

Digital Inc: Going Mobile

By Anne Stuart |  Dec 1, 2002

Investing in a wireless network slashed inventory errors at one electronics distributor. Better yet, it turned warehouse workers into high-tech innovators.  Read story

The Capitalist Road

By Martha E. Mangelsdorf |  Nov 1, 1989

Two Russian companies have installed the country's first employee stock ownership plans.  Read story

A Soviet Case For Entrepreneurship

Aug 1, 1983

If you traveled from Monticello to Moscow, you would cover more than 5,000 miles. Ideologically, the distance from the symbol of Jeffersonian democracy to...  Read story

Cold War

By John R. Franks |  Jan 1, 1987

"Kachajian's Rebellion" (October) reminded me of a similar experience I had at a company I managed. In the spring of 1983, the company received an unsoli...  Read story

Building Strong Bones

By Anne Murphy |  Oct 1, 1991

New business sets out to build longer, stronger bones.  Read story

Do-It-Yourself Phone-Fraud Safeguards

By Robert A. Mamis |  Dec 1, 1993

9 precautions to help prevent phone-fraud.  Read story

Who's Thinking About Exporting?

By Susan Greco |  Nov 1, 1992

Chart showing percentage of companies interested in various exporting regions.  Read story

Kachajian's Rebellion

By Lucien Rhodes |  Oct 1, 1986

The story of how one small manufacturere spent six years fighting to save his business from the deadening hand of government export controls -- and won. Sort...  Read story

Rambling for Gems

By Emily Barker |  Jul 1, 2000

Here's how one woman turned an impromptu vacation into a thriving jewelry design and manufacturing business.  Read story

The Andropov Connection

May 1, 1983

To hear Lev Zak tell it, Russians just can't get no respect. "You wouldn't believe how bad consumer products and services are there," he says. "I mean it'...  Read story

Learning the Ropes

By H. Garrett Deyoung |  Aug 1, 1988

Suggestions on taking a cost-effective approach to export opportunities.  Read story

Storm Clouds Over Silicon Valley

By Susan Benner |  Sep 1, 1982

As blind faith in the infallibility of high-tech companies falters, the era of unrestrained growth in the Valley may be over.  Read story

Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT)

The Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT) is a widely used method for planning and coordinating large-scale projects. As Harold Kerzner explained...  Read story

Oil

By Nell Margolis |  Sep 1, 1986

* One barrel contains 42 gallons of oil, thanks to the Great Eel Controversy. Eels? In fifteenth-century England, King Edward IV settled one of the fract...  Read story

Vonnegut and Clancy on Technology

By Sarah Schafer |  Dec 15, 1995

Two of America's best-known authors express their different opinions on the role technology plays in our society.  Read story

Entrepreneurs Collide: Will Zoning Take Town Downhill?

By Joshua D. Macht |  Apr 1, 1997

Various entrepreneurs from a small town comment on a topic that concerns many small-buisness people--zoning laws.  Read story

Red Stars Rising

By James L. Hickman |  Aug 1, 1995

The president of a Russian telephone company explains the challenge of finding employees in the former USSR.  Read story

Wordly Wise

By Michael Maiello

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

Bitter Harvest

By Susan Benner |  May 1, 1983

They can breed a cow with half again as much beef as those raised by their grandfathers and grow 160 bushels of corn an acre instead of 80. Their revenues ar...  Read story

"being Dead Is Bad For Business"

By Lucien Rhodes |  Jul 1, 1984

A growing number of businesspeople are looking beyond the survival of their own companies -- and becoming outspoken participants in the nuclear arms debate.  Read story

Busting The Trustbusters

By STEVEN PEARLSTEIN |  Apr 1, 1986

Independent businesspeople voted in droves for Ronald Reagan. Now Reagan proposes that fewer businesspeople be independent.  Read story

Turning Spin into Substance

Apr 1, 2000

Beyond Spin by Markos Kounalakis, Drew Banks, and Kim Daus Jossey-Bass, 1999, 266 pages, $27. The New Goals o...  Read story

Winning in the Asian Era

By Joel Kotkin |  Sep 1, 1988

The U.S. must take a new commerce perspective in regard to the changes taking place in the world economy.  Read story

Go East, Young Man

By Frank H. Jellinek Jr. |  Sep 1, 1990

First-person account of a joint venture in Eastern Europe.  Read story

National Insecurity

By C. Scott Kulicke |  Dec 1, 1986

As chairman of the Technical Advisory Committee described in "Kachajian's Rebellion," I thought your readers might like an update. The government still h...  Read story

How I Did It: Larry Rigdon, Rigdon Marine

By Larry Rigdon |  Sep 1, 2008

As told to Leigh Buchanan Industry Leader: Transportation Three-Year Growth: Read story

Laima Tazmin, LAVT

because she's a lot like other kids--and then again...  Read story

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