History


American Beauties (and Bargains)

Finding a deal in Impressionist art.  Read story

Book Review: The Wright Way

Problem-Solving Methods from the Wright Brothers When Wilbur and Orville Wright completed the first successful manned flight on Dec. 17, 1903, th...  Read story

Black Entrepreneurship, the Sequel

Some thoughts on how the recent emergence of more black-owned small businesses reflects on a proud history.  Read story

Corrections

The photographer's credit for "A Second Industrial Revolution" (September, page 26) should have been Steve Liss. The dates at the top of the Scoreca...  Read story

Keep on Trucking

Can't keep track of your trucks? Here's an efficient fleet-monitoring system that tells owners where their trucks are.  Read story

From Russia with Light and Color

Collecting Soviet impressionist art.  Read story

CEO Passions: Collecting War Stories

Tom Beaty's hobby is creating an oral history of U.S. veterans.  Read story

The Greening Of The Guard

The Red Guard generation enlisted by Mao to eradicate all vestiges of capitalism is now in the vanguard of China's entrepreneurial class.  Read story

Southern Comfort: Savannah's Squares and Parks

Our guide to Savannah's top attractions continues.  Read story

Counterrevolutionaries

What Jerry Gorde displayed ("Chairman Jerry's Cultural Revolution," August) was immaturity and an unwillingness to let people run their own lives. What h...  Read story

Leadership Under Fire

How do you deal with talented but undisciplined subordinates? How do you handle people who aren't there when you need them -- particularly if you need th...  Read story

Glory Days

General Bill Creech of TAC definitely has the right idea. I experienced what he talks about firsthand in World War II while in the U.S. Navy. The intersq...  Read story

Independent Beer Makers Lobby Congress Over Tax

As part of an annual conference, brewers are voicing opposition to a longstanding excise tax.  Read story

Declaration of Independence

The story of how Thomas Jefferson, with the help of Ben Franklin, invented an early copying machine.  Read story

Cultural Fascism, excerpt

An excerpt from 'Cultural Fascism' by Sarah J. McCarthy.  Read story

United We Stand

Quote from 'A History of Small Business in America,' by Mansel G. Blackford.  Read story

Trade Wars Through The Ages

"The English had now begun to deluge the markets of France with their whale oils: and they were enabled by the great premiums given by their Government to...  Read story

Scroll Back

Ask this Silicon Valley CEO about data storage, whether it be CDs or 2,000-year-old animal skins.  Read story

Business Cycles

The business cycle is the periodic but irregular up-and-down movement in economic activity, measured by fluctuations in real gross domestic product (GDP) ...  Read story

Space-Age Phone

New business manufactures dime-size microphone/receiver to replace the traditional phone handset.  Read story

Peter Drucker quote

Quote from Peter Drucker's 'Post-Capitalist Society'(HarperCollins, 1993).  Read story

Bayou Boycott Spurs Buying

Anti-French sentiment in Louisiana proves to be a boon for small business.  Read story

Southern Comfort: Savannah's Historic Houses of Worship

Our guide to Savannah's top attractions continues.  Read story

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Adolf and Rudolf Dassler ran a factory together making athletic shoes in a small Bavarian town. But after World War II, the founders of Adidas Sports-chuh...  Read story

And the Credit Goes to?

It's not the inventor toiling in his lab who becomes famous. It's the one who makes the biggest splash.  Read story

The Latest Boardroom Darwinism

Finding fresh management insights in The Origin of the Species .  Read story

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For a print shop owner in Springfield, Mass., business was not exactly fun and games. During the 1860 Presidential race, his portraits of the clean-shaven...  Read story

Waking Up to War

Today is March 21, the Vernal Equinox. On this day we celebrate the first of the year's four seasonal changes, and across the thawing ...  Read story

Hammond Medallion World Atlas. Hammond, Maplewood Nj 07040; 672 Pp., $60.

In Iran, Pahlavi is now called Enzeli; the African island of Fernando Po has been changed to Bioko; Cuba's infamous Isle of Pines has been renamed Island ...  Read story

Presidential Wisdom for Entrepreneurs

Here's a trivia question: Who's the only U.S. president to receive a patent? No, not Thomas Jefferson. Abraham Lincoln! This month, we observe Pres...  Read story

Women In Business: Hitting A Raw Nerve

There was a major piece of evidence missing in what was otherwise a well-conceived work: corporate culture has rarely encouraged female participation thro...  Read story

Salary Expectations Lower

The weaker economy has jobseekers settling for less, a survey finds.  Read story

Great Moments In Recruiting

PART 2 The Profits, on the Other Hand, Are Nothing to Sneeze At Just after the Civil War, a group in Neenah, Wis., began gathering every night...  Read story

The Inc. 100 Portfolio;

Most INC. 100 companies are under a decade old, but the roots of Harvard Industries Inc. (#72), of St. Louis, go back to the last century. Thereby hangs ...  Read story

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He came to America in a hurry, after his father's praise of the American Revolution made the family unwelcome in England. Turning down a cushy assistant ...  Read story

Small Businesses Selling For More

With valuations on the rise, buyers are paying closer to asking prices.  Read story

Agenda 11/05

Thanksgiving is this month's main event, and while we encourage seconds, beware the toll that tryptophan can have on personal productiv...zzzzzzz.  Read story

Things I Can't Live Without: Michael Murdoch

Michael Murdoch, founder of Internet security firm AppRiver, has grown fond of a homicidal sock monkey.  Read story

All Wet

A slap on the back of your typing hand for degrading the ancient art of dowsing (People & Innovations, January). BCI's Kruzshak would no doubt benefit...  Read story

Weathering the Recession

Sources for advice on recession-proofing your business.  Read story

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