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Report Casts Doubt on Giving Small Loans to Poor Entrepreneurs

Global microfinance programs may not help reduce overall poverty in the developing world, new research shows.  Read story

How to Shake Djibouti

The U.N. declares that nation- and business-building are related.  Read story

Where Seed Money

Forget about venture capitalists, most people rely on the four F's.  Read story

Grist: Micromanagers, Unite!

Confessions from a real-life micro-manager -- and how our company can benefit from a little meddling.  Read story

Grist: Micromanagers, Unite!

Confessions from a real-life micro-manager -- and how our company can benefit from a little meddling.  Read story

Grist: The Rising Cost of Bad Advice

Given all the bad advice out there, business owners need to develop a healthy skepticism of the experts, recognizing that doing so requires more than just an...  Read story

Blue is the New Green

Forget for a moment about carbon emissions. The world is facing a more immediate crisis -- it is running out of clean water. The prospect of widespread short...  Read story

Fishing for Big-Name Partners

It's no secret that small businesses often struggle when it comes to getting an "in" as a strategic partner with larger organizations. But companies seeki...  Read story

Financing: Where to Find It

Finding financing is a more complicated matter than during the dot-com years when money seemed to flow freely for any good idea that crossed the transom. Tod...  Read story

Happy Birthday, WTO?

An organization best known for sparking riots also deserves some credit for promoting the interests of American entrepreneurs.  Read story

U.S. Leading Global Patents

Patent applications hit a record high last year, an international IP group reports.  Read story

The Kindest Cut

Competition has sparked a global decline in corporate taxes.  Read story

Why You Should Worry About Retention

Even if it seems that employers have the upper hand, a retention plan will make your workforce even stronger.  Read story

CEO's Notebook

CEOs discuss: Avoiding audits; communicating with non-English-speaking employees; fishing for big-name partners; and a can't-miss plan for cutting costs. Plu...  Read story

Europe: the Fast Track

The big European economies are stagnant, but if you look around you find some extraordinarysuccess stories. From his base in Prague, Ivo St. Kovachev is ...  Read story

Beyond E-mail

A senioir vp and CIO discusses a range of messaging technologies that can run rings around e-mail.  Read story

Five Ideas to Watch

Easy parking, better emergency response, free names, fragrant law enforcement, and precocious fashion design.  Read story

Making the Travelers' Century Club, Times Two

Dick Matland, president of Coronado Shores Co., has traveled to enough destinations to qualify for the Travelers' Century Club two times over.  Read story

Building a Global Alliance

Tacit Networks wanted to expand overseas but had few resources and no leads. So it found another way to go global.  Read story

Chambers of Commerce

Related Terms: Business Associations ; Read story

Found In Translation

How to make the multicultural work force work.  Read story

Offshore Drilling

Why foreign-based VCs are taking a closer look at U.S. firms.  Read story

Financing and Where to Find It

Finding financing is a more complicated matter than during the dot-com years when money seemed to flow freely for any good idea that c...  Read story

Financing: Where to Find It

The hunt for financing is on. Only a year ago, venture capitalists seemed willing to throw money at just about any dot-com business plan. But funding toda...  Read story

Just When You Thought It Was Safe To Go Back In The Office

Companies that have gone electronic discover a host of environmental problems. You may be sitting on one, reading under another, and have your feet up on a t...  Read story

Fished Out

A look at how technology may be wiping the fishing industry. Could it happen to your industry?  Read story

Lessons in Leadership

All of us need role models, especially those of us who run our own businesses. When I first became a manager, I searched for people to emulate when develo...  Read story

Collectibles

Shidoni offers one-stop shopping to corporate, municipal, and institutional art seekers.  Read story

Would You Buy a Chinese Car from This Man?

Malcom Bricklin is on a quest to revolutionize the auto industry at 14,845 words per hour.  Read story

Winning in the Asian Era

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

The Toll of a New Machine

A light-hearted look at how a manager at a high-growth company is suffering with the newest office technology.  Read story

The Storm Before the Calm

Might war with Iraq spur economic growth? And what will it mean for small companies?  Read story

All Shook Up

What would drive an entrepreneur to reshuffle his top management team at the peak of his company's success?  Read story

Hostage Situation

Get the benefits of an ASP without all the headaches.  Read story

A Failure To Communicate

Small business may have a special Presidential report, but until some more fundamental changes occur, it will never have much clout with the President.  Read story

What the Experts Forgot to Mention

Model team-based management company still struggles with the complexities of its system.  Read story

A Confidence Game

Whenever your company's monthly bills are expected to increase significantly, it's time to analyze cash flow.  Read story

Profile: A Hot Property

Real-estate broker Barbara Corcoran went from waitressing at a diner to building a $70-million company.  Read story

Case Study

For one small tech company, the issue was simple: It could protect a potentially valuable patent, or it could tap a big new market. But it couldn't do both.  Read story

Small Loans, Big Results

Thanks to a microloan from half a world away, a Cambodian rice winemaker named Phal An is ready to expand her growing business.  Read story

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