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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 more

More and Better Markets

Nobel-prize-winning economist Gary Becker on the next new economy.  Read more

More and Better Markets

Nobel-prize-winning economist Gary Becker on the next new economy.  Read more

Playing a Waiting Game

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 more

Letters

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 more

Strategy

Related Terms: Business Planning "Strategy...  Read more

Big Problems and How Startups Solved Them

Even the most realistic entrepreneur underestimates the difficulties in building a business. Sure, everyone foresees challenges in raising capital,...  Read more

Team Work

Start-up creates after-school care centers for 5- to 12-year olds.  Read more

Universities: Your New Best Friend

For resource-hungry entrepreneurs, the explosion of university-based business-development programs comes as sweet relief in tight economic times. From Ann Ar...  Read more

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 more

Will the Bailout Help You?

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 more

The State of Small Business 1995

Inc.'s editor-in-chief profiles the writers appearing in this special annual report, The State of Small Business.  Read more

How Expert Are The Experts?

Dozens of studies show that you're the expert at forecasting your future.  Read more

Best of the Net: B-School Brains

Business-school sites that can help you think big.  Read more

Network: January 1990

New Network queries for January of 1990.  Read more

Inc. Executive Education

Inc. Executive Education brings a set of course...  Read more

Hi-Tech Blamed For Chronic Procrastination

To make my point, I'm posting this tidbit at 10 p.m. EST, instead of my usual 9 a.m. According to new research coming out of the University of Chicago's P...  Read more

The Science of Status

Napa grapes or no-name grapes: There is news on the science of status and what it means to businesses.  Read more

Hotline

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How to Hire an Office Manager

Looking for someone to keep your office in order, do clerical tasks and fill-in elsewhere? Here's your guide to the best practices for hiring an office manager.  Read more

The Education Of A Small Businessperson

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 more

Best Courses 2011: Entrepreneurial Selling

A course that customizes material for the sales-phobic CEO  Read more

Executive MBA Programs

They may seem like a brainchild of the 1980s, but executive MBA (EMBA) programs were actually born during World War II; the first was launched at the Univ...  Read more

How to Hire an Executive Assistant

If scheduling and clerical work is slipping between the cracks, it might be time for an assistant. Here's your guide to a smooth hiring process.  Read more

Index

A guide to many of the companies, organizations, and individuals featured in the March 2001 issue of Inc. magazine.  Read more

The Zealot: Mission Critical

Sometimes the fastest way to get a job done is to start your own company.  Read more

The Making of an Inc. 500 CEO: My Favorite Job

A close-up article that features one CEO, and how he took his start-up publication to the top of the heap.  Read more

Rehnquist's Law

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 more

Upstarts: University Tournaments

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 more

What's All This About "merchant Banking"?

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 more

Pay Now, Learn Later

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 more

If You Had It to Do All Over Again, What Would You Do Differently?

Inc. asks experienced entrepreneurs to share what they've learned from some of their biggest mistakes.  Read more

Campus Businesses Have Fun, Make Profits

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 more

How I Did It: Michael Powell

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 more

Upstarts: M.D. Entrepreneurs

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 more

Can Chicago Be Saved?

Among the nation's biggest cities, Chicago lags behind, a victim of political division, a big-company mentality, and its own past success  Read more