World History

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

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

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

Scroll Back

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

Peter Drucker quote

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

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

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

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 more

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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 more

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 more

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 more

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 more

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 more

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 more

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 more

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 more

Battlefield Proves to Be Good Training Ground for Entrepreneurs

The U.S. Census Bureau recently issued its first-ever report on veteran business owners.  Read more

See Your Privacy Disappear at Google...

In 1999, the then CEO of Sun Microsystems said something that infuriated a huge number of people. " You have zero privacy anyway ,"...  Read more

Great Moments In Recruiting

PART 4 But Did They Get A's in the Course? The two engineering students from Stanford University capped of their undergraduate years of friend...  Read more

Second Founding

Turning an annual company party into a motivation-building bash.  Read more

Yellow Journalism

The more successful your company, the faster your sales and profits grow . . . and the faster you go out of business? Historic Newspaper Archives In...  Read more