Study: Discounts Aren't the Only Way to Boost Retail Sales
Dec. 16, 2005 --Small retailers looking to increase customer during and after the holiday season should think twice about simply slashing ... Read story
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More and Better Markets
By Gary Becker | May 15, 2000
Nobel-prize-winning economist Gary Becker on the next new economy. Read story
Playing a Waiting Game
By Jennifer McFarland | Nov 15, 1999
In these days of painful labor shortages, growing companies need nothing less than a grand master of recruiting to hire the best programmers. So believes ... Read story
Letters
By Inc Staff | Oct 15, 1997
Readers react to Jerry Useem's "Churn, Baby, Churn," featured in this year's State of Small Business issue (May 1997). The article weighed the importance of ... Read story
Big Problems and How Startups Solved Them
By Paulette Thomas | Apr 15, 2003
Even the most realistic entrepreneur underestimates the difficulties in building a business. Sure, everyone foresees challenges in raising capital,... Read story
Team Work
By Leslie Brokaw | Jul 1, 1990
Start-up creates after-school care centers for 5- to 12-year olds. Read story
Universities: Your New Best Friend
By Emily Barker | Nov 1, 2002
For resource-hungry entrepreneurs, the explosion of university-based business-development programs comes as sweet relief in tight economic times. From Ann Ar... Read story
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By Stephen D. Solomon | Jan 1, 1986
Tell It to the Federal Trade Commission "To our lords, the administrator, and Nabu-aha-iddin: Concerning the 400 [measures of] barley . . . he has g... Read story
The State of Small Business 1995
By George Gendron | May 15, 1995
Inc.'s editor-in-chief profiles the writers appearing in this special annual report, The State of Small Business. Read story
Will the Bailout Help You?
By Robb Mandelbaum | Oct 8, 2008
It's the $700 billion question on everyone's mind -- and nobody has a real answer. To understand whether the money will start flowing again, it's important t... Read story
How Expert Are The Experts?
By J. Scott Armstrong | Dec 1, 1981
Dozens of studies show that you're the expert at forecasting your future. Read story
Best of the Net: B-School Brains
By Jane Saladof MacNeil | Jan 1, 2002
Business-school sites that can help you think big. Read story
Network: January 1990
By Inc Staff | Jan 1, 1990
New Network queries for January of 1990. Read story
The Science of Status
By Nadine Heintz | Sep 1, 2003
Napa grapes or no-name grapes: There is news on the science of status and what it means to businesses. Read story
The Education Of A Small Businessperson
By Milton D. Stewart | Jun 1, 1983
It is that loveliest time of the year on college campuses -- commencement -- a good season to think about how critical our colleges and universities will ... Read story
Index
By Various Inc Staff | Mar 1, 2001
A guide to many of the companies, organizations, and individuals featured in the March 2001 issue of Inc. magazine. Read story
The Making of an Inc. 500 CEO: My Favorite Job
By David Whitford | Oct 15, 1994
A close-up article that features one CEO, and how he took his start-up publication to the top of the heap. Read story
The Zealot: Mission Critical
By Thea Singer | Jan 1, 2001
Sometimes the fastest way to get a job done is to start your own company. Read story
Rehnquist's Law
By JAY FINEGAN | Oct 1, 1986
Politically, the new chief justice is conservative and Republican all right. But legally, he's not so much pro-business as he is pro-government. Read story
Pay Now, Learn Later
By Ira Carnahan
You can protect yourself against college tuition hikes. But the scheme backfires if your kid goes to the state university By now you probably kno... Read story
What's All This About "merchant Banking"?
Jul 1, 1984
In recent months, we have been hearing more and more about something called "merchant banking" -- a new kind of financial specialty imported from England,... Read story
Upstarts: University Tournaments
By Marc Ballon | Dec 1, 1998
University business-plan tournaments are spawning a variety of sophisticated start-up companies. Here's what students learn from these contests and why inves... Read story
Campus Businesses Have Fun, Make Profits
Jan 1, 1982
The word "demonstration" at colleges and universities these days is more likely to refer to a product demonstration than to a protest march. When student... Read story
If You Had It to Do All Over Again, What Would You Do Differently?
By Ilan Mochari | Mar 1, 2001
Inc. asks experienced entrepreneurs to share what they've learned from some of their biggest mistakes. Read story
Upstarts: M.D. Entrepreneurs
By Ilan Mochari | Aug 1, 1999
Here's how sports physicians are cashing in on their association with professional athletes by branding high-end health products. Plus: a look at the rise of... Read story
How I Did It: Michael Powell
By Michael Powell | May 1, 2004
Rather than open a used-book store, Michael Powell decided to start a business selling used books. That entrepreneurial point of view launched him on a path ... Read story
Can Chicago Be Saved?
By DAVID MOBERG | Mar 1, 1988
Among the nation's biggest cities, Chicago lags behind, a victim of political division, a big-company mentality, and its own past success Read story
Why Companies Fail
By Bruce G. Posner | Jun 1, 1993
Judgment calls, reality tests and mistakes of the heart that doom companies to failure. Read story
Looking for Jobs in All the Wrong Places
By John Case | Mar 1, 1994
Government should foster innovation and entrepreneurship instead of focusing on companies' sizes. Read story
Wal-Mart: the Little Guy's Champion?
By Max Chafkin | Jun 1, 2006
Wal-Mart unveils its new good-neighbor policy. Read story
Three Scary Words: "Buy It Used"
By Max Chafkin | Sep 1, 2006
With more people buying stuff used, companies have to rethink everything from a product's durability to the terms of their warranties. Read story
Entrepreneurship: Can the Touch be Taught?
By Jeff Bailey | Aug 1, 2003
Can you teach someone to be an entrepreneur? With more than 1,500 U.S. colleges offering some sort of entrepreneurship classes -- by the Ewing Mari... Read story
The No-tech Solution
By Craig R. Waters | May 1, 1986
Industrial America's graveyard is filled with companies just like Intermatic. But then, they didn't have Jim Miller. Read story
Head of Small Business Administration Resigns
By Angus Loten | Apr 25, 2006
After nearly five years at the helm and facing criticism over Hurricane Katrina recovery, Hector Barreto will be replaced by Steven Preston, an executive at ... Read story
Saying No to Retirement
By Stephanie Clifford | Sep 1, 2005
Older CEOs plan to work past age 65. They may find that harder than they expect. Read story
Nepotism On Trial
By John F. Persinos | Jul 1, 1984
A case now before the Supreme Court of the United States is challenging the notion that business owners can favor members of their own families in hiring ... Read story
Scroll Back
By Regan Good | Jun 1, 2003
Ask this Silicon Valley CEO about data storage, whether it be CDs or 2,000-year-old animal skins. Read story
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