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
United Nations
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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