Markets You Might Have Missed
So you're not sure whether your product is in demand aboard? A review of the current "best prospects list" from the U.S. Department of Commerce turns up ... Read story
Western Europe
Upstarts
U.S. embassies and consulates get about 50,000 calls a year from people trying to contact American travelers in Western Europe. Alan Wissenberg saw a bus... Read story
No Longer Quiet On The Western Front
Common Market countries are launching a promising initiative to help small business growth. Small businesspeople in the United States should carefully monito... Read story
The Wages Of Fear
With concrete barriers going up at the White House, fear of political terrorism has spread throughout the land, prompting business executives to give more... 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
Who's Thinking About Exporting?
Chart showing percentage of companies interested in various exporting regions. Read story
Best Of The Trade Press
Recent trends from various trade journals. Read story
Software Piracy Hits $29 Billion in Losses
July 9, 2004 -- The software industry is caught in a twisted cycle: People pirate software because it costs so much and software develope... Read story
"to Secure These Rights..."
This is the first of a series of articles that will appear from time to time in this space on the general subject of "The Federal Turnaround We Need." In ... Read story
The British Connection
For U.S. small businesspeople, the problems and progress of our English counterparts should be more than a matter of idle curiosity. Read story
Feelin' Groovy?
Which nations have the happiest entrepreneurs and which have a problem. Read story
International: Deciding When a Joint Venture Makes Sense
The president of a manufacturing concern explains one key facet he analyzed when expanding into international markets. Read story
It's In The Cards
While bankers and retailers have warily eyed the advent of smart cards -- microcomputers encased in credit card-size plastic -- one small company has foun... Read story
Going For Broke
American weapons, not Russian, will be the death of us yet, and part of the reason is the unblinking support of the business community Read story
Hotline
Hotline information paragraphs for May 1990 Read story
The Thinking Man's Outsourcing
A surprising number of U.S. companies are sending their most complex activities overseas. Read story
Avoiding International Accounting Hassles
Tips on adjusting to foreign accounting systems. Read story
Rallying Overseas Reps
How one company made the most of a three-day training for its foreign sales reps, held at U.S. headquarters. Read story
Keeping In Touch
From simple beeps to ticker-tape printouts, the message is clear. Pagers and mobile phones are rapidly becoming more useful and affordable. Read story
Thriving On Adversity
Sometimes entrepreneurship does best when the local economy appears to have taken a turn for the worse Read story
Study: Low Cost Not Driving Offshoring
More companies are sending R D oversees because of intellectual capital and university collaboration. Read story
Back in the U.S.S.R.
A museum curator suggests Russia's BESM supercomputer may have been superior to ours during the Cold War. Read story
The Worldwide Workforce
To stay competitive and reap top talent, small businesses will need travel beyond the borders of the U.S. for employees and learn to work effectively with wo... Read story
Take Me To Your Leader
Biographies of corporate leaders have long been a staple of the business bookshelf. But when you ask a handful of today's best-known management theoretici... Read story
Foreign Affairs
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, " Charles Dickens wrote about the period of the French Revolution, and a number of U.S. companies co... Read story
Risky Business
A venture capitalist discusses marketplace trends and the venture capital business. Read story
The Leader: A New Face For American Management, By Michael Maccoby. Simon
Since the 1976 publication of The Gamesman, a study focusing on the personalities of managers of companies that create new technology, either Michael Macc... Read story
When In Rome
Mike Rooney became a globe-trotter to build a strong network of overseas sales representatives. Read story
Europe Inc.
In Europe, it used to be that the only thing worse than failing at entrepreneurship was succeeding, and making money. Now, suddenly, entrepreneurship is all ... Read story
Network: September 1991
Network new queries. Read story
Network: December 1991
Network reader-to-reader advice. Read story
U.S. Remains 'Best Bet' for Entrepreneurial Success
Despite opportunities overseas, venture capitalists are still focused on U.S. investments, according to a new study. Read story
Fear Of Capitalism
Entrepreneurism is the most creative -- and revolutionary -- activity in the American economy. Most politicians would just as soon do without it. Read story
Go East, Young Man
First-person account of a joint venture in Eastern Europe. Read story
Britain's New Generation Of Company Builders
How Margaret Thatcher has instituted revolutionary changes in government to save Great Britain's faltering economy. Read story
World Bank Blues
Bernard van der Lande built his business on getting World Bank contracts. Then the rules seemed to change. Read story
Turning the Tables
The outsourcing trend almost killed Kalexsyn--until its founders made globalization work in their favor. Read story
Will Success Spoil Jerry Gorde?
On the road to the revolution, a young radical took a detour and wound up as CEO of a $6-million company. Read story
Exporting the Risk
Setting up direct sales abroad and raising money from European venture capitalists. Read story
The French Connection
Profile of the changing French entrepreneurial landscape. Read story
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