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5 Atypical Employee Benefit Offerings
Go outside the benefit offering checkbox and reap the result of top performers who are easier to attract and stay longer. Read more
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Higher Patent Fees Irk Small Inventors
The Reagan Administration's continuing effort to trim the federal budget has struck a raw nerve with American inventors. To pay for its overhead costs, t... Read more
5 Atypical Employee Benefits
The 2010 winners of the Top Small Company Workplaces shared some of the benefits they offer to their employe... View slideshow
Bagging Waste
For years, retailers have used bags or boxes to make it "convenient" for customers to carry their purchases home. To increasing numbers of environmentally... Read more
They Recycle Whole Trees
Kinko's Copy Centers plants trees to replace those destroyed to produce the paper used by the company. Read more
Lost in Patagonia
Profile of a socially responsible company, its founder, and the problems of focusing on ideology rather than profit. Read more
How to Improve Your Employees' Work-Life Balance
Telecommuting, daycare, and other employee benefits help workers balance their duties at work and at home. Read more
The Business of the Playground
A look at the companies that help keep the Lakes Regional Park Playground in Fort Myers, Florida, fun and tangle-free. Read more
Ken Jennings - The End of an Era
Poor Ken Jennings. He finally went bust on Jeopardy last night, after answering final jeopardy incorrectly. The answer? Most of this firm's 70,000 seasona... Read more
Fast Trading with Computers
Company computerizes barter technology to allow tens of thousands of small companies to barter goods and services. Read more
Office Services
Time-management tip: Have your barber, manicurist, masseuse, or detailer come to your shop, not you to their's. Read more
California Wildfires Send Business Owners Scrambling
The economic toll from the fires, which have scorched more than 400,000 acres, is still not known. Read more
How to Conduct Annual Employee Reviews
Many entrepreneurs struggle when it comes to providing workers with concrete feedback on how they can improve their performance. Here are tips and techniques... Read more
Friend of the Family
The Socially Responsible EOY winner and runners-up for 1994. Read more
The Clean-up Crew
Do you have high credit card bills or an unused timeshare? A number of today's fastest-growing companies are helping consumers to undo the bad choices they m... Read more
Gift Guide: Care Package
Send a client a well-chosen gift and kick off a new year of goodwill. We've got a wide range of shopping ideas that will help you say, "We value your busines... Read more
Private Lives;
Demon dialers, Dungeons Dragons, and the great $5 disposable suit. Read more
If At First You Don't Succeed
How my father tried to reconcile his big ideas with a small-minded world. Read more
Videoconferencing for the Rest of Us
A close-up look at some new technology making the face-to-face phone call affordable. Read more
What Business Is Amazon.com Really In?
With more than $550 million in losses over the past five years, how can Amazon.com seriously expect to become a viable retail business? Inc. offers ... Read more
How to Choose the Best Business Card for Your Company
Networking, marketing, and leadership experts lay out what makes an effective business card, business card style taboos, and the importance of design versus ... Read more
The Anti-marketers
The best mail-order catalog in America is put out by people who hate to sell, never use the word 'new,' and make customers pay for the privilege of ordering Read more
A Little Enlightened Self-Interest
Patagonia's Yvon Chouinard and Winning Workplaces's Ken Lehman talk about values, ethics, and why companies that treat employees well have a business advantage. Read more
The Ecology of Commerce
Essay on the responsibility of business to society and the environment. (Letters to the Editor in the July '92 issue.) Read more
What Business Is Amazon.com Really In?
With more than $550 million in losses over the past five years, how can Amazon.com seriously expect to become a viable retail business? I In... Read more
'i'm Sorry, Yvon's Out Surfing'
How to run a company when you're gone six months of the year Read more
Down in the Dump
Profile of a start-up company that has created a foam to spread over landfill garbage. Read more
Locking Up Good Value
Valuation specialists may be the best way to assess a service company's total worth. Read more
Once Is Not Enough
At Servamatic Systems, two sales pitches are better than one. Read more
#8 TEMPS & CO. WASHINGTON, D.C. Many INC. 500 companies are wife-and-husband teams, but so far as we can tell, this is the only sister-brother c... Read more
The Most Entrepreneurial Cities in America
Inc.'s 1990 ranking of metropolitan regions by job growth, business starts, and proportion of high-growth companies. Read more
The Inc. 500
Note: This table may be divided, and additional information on a particular entry may appear on more than one screen. Sales growth 1980-84 ... Read more
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