History

American Beauties (and Bargains)

Finding a deal in Impressionist art.  Read more

Problem-Solving with the Wright Brothers

Today marks the 100th anniversary of the ...  Read more

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 more

One Giant Leap For Mankind

40 years ago today, 600 million people worldwide were huddled around their black and white television sets sharing in one of humankind's most glorious acc...  Read more

Black Entrepreneurship, the Sequel

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

How Great Leaders Thrive in Tough Times

Chester Arthur, who served as President of the United States from 1881 to 1885, will never be regarded as one our great leaders. In fact, many Americans w...  Read more

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 more

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 more

From Russia with Light and Color

Collecting Soviet impressionist art.  Read more

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 more

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 more

Southern Comfort: Savannah's Squares and Parks

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

Independent Beer Makers Lobby Congress Over Tax

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

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 more

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 more

Declaration of Independence

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

Cultural Fascism, excerpt

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

"The Worst Mancession in Recent History"

Atlantic: "Worst mancession in recent history." In nearly every age group, men are losing jobs at a faster rate than women. The male unemployment r...  Read more

United We Stand

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

China's 3rd Manned Spaceflight

When I was a kid I watched men land on the moon. Like every kid I wanted to be an astronaut. Now China is getting in on the act. After a Read more

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 more

Business Management Applications: The Power of Data

BMAs may be your online secret weapon to weather the downturn -- and come out of it stronger and more profitable.  Read more

Scroll Back

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

Another #&*! Stimulus Plan?

You have to be kidding me. Our government is now saying we need another stimulus plan? Why, because the first worked so well? This is a crazy idea that only ...  Read more

Putting France Back to Work

France's 35-hour workweek establised back in 1998 by the Socialists might ...  Read more

Space-Age Phone

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

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 more

Peter Drucker quote

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

Managing Growth Companies in Uncertain Times

As highlighted during the final days of the 2008 presidential campaign, we are in the midst of a global economic downturn the likes of which many of us ha...  Read more

Bayou Boycott Spurs Buying

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

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 more

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 more

The Latest Boardroom Darwinism

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

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 more

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 more

Recession Success Stories

In our May issue, which is just now hitting the newsstands, we take a look a just what it takes to launch a business during a recession. We look back at t...  Read more