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Market Makers The many-faceted Inner City 100 companies seem to embrace new-business development as a way of life, branching out in boom times and bust times alike. And they don't typically exit one business when they get into another...   |
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May 1, 2000
Various Inc. Staff |
The Inner City 100 Almanac At a glance: The Inner City 100 CEOs and the companies they keep. Statistics on the CEO's, urban flight, and recruiting issues. |
IndustryWeek
March 1, 2008
David Blanchard |
The Biggest Challenges Facing Manufacturers -- IndustryWeek's 2008 Salary Survey Responses Offshore competition. Finding and retaining skilled labor. Rising costs. Government regulations. Sound familiar? Manufacturing managers share many of the same headaches and confront common challenges. |
Inc.
June 2005
Michael E. Porter |
More Tales of the Inner City A remarkable group of entrepreneurs deserves credit for transforming America's toughest neighborhoods. But there is still much that cities can and must do to support these crucial growth companies. |
Entrepreneur
December 2001
C.J. Prince |
(W)inner City When it comes to untapped entrepreneurial potential, the city's where it's at... |
Inc.
May 1, 2000 |
The Second Annual Inner City 100 ...we present the 100 fastest-growing businesses in America's urban cores and highlight the methods used to build them. Because of their locations, the companies honored here sometimes find life a little more challenging than many other businesses do... |
BusinessWeek
October 27, 2003
Aaron Bernstein |
Pitting Markets vs. Poverty Harvard's Michael Porter talks about some surprising strengths in inner cities and how capitalist forces can help improve their lot |
BusinessWeek
October 27, 2003
Aaron Bernstein |
An Inner-City Renaissance The nation's ghettos are making surprising strides. Will the gains last? |
Inc.
May 2004
Mike Hofman |
Q&A with Michael Porter Harvard professor and urban booster Michael Porter explains the vital role that growing companies play in the inner city. |
IndustryWeek
March 1, 2007
David Blanchard |
Manufacturing's Biggest Challenges -- IndustryWeek's 2007 Salary Survey Responses If you come to work everyday worrying about global competition, finding and keeping skilled labor, raw material shortages, and the quality of your product, you're not alone. |
Inc.
May 1, 2003
Donna Fenn |
A Business Grows Straight Outta Compton In a tough business in an even tougher town, Chet Pipkin has built a Hall of Fame company. |
Inc.
April 23, 2003 |
Inner City 100 Impact Index Inner City 100 companies impact their communities in more ways than just providing jobs to workers in America's urban areas. |
Inc.
May 1, 2000
Emily Barker |
The Company They Keep The challenges of hiring, retaining, and training employees in the inner city are the same as they are elsewhere. And then some. |
Inc.
June 2006
Leigh Buchanan |
The 2006 Inner City 100 Good businesses, good neighbors, good stories: the fastest-growing urban companies in America. |
IndustryWeek
March 1, 2008
David Blanchard |
Manufacturing Is Not For the Faint at Heart -- IndustryWeek's 2008 Salary Survey Comments When asked to comment on the state of the industry, manufacturing managers throughout the United States share a common concern that the odds seem to be stacked against them. |
IndustryWeek
March 1, 2007
David Blanchard |
Managing Expectations -- IndustryWeek's 2007 Salary Survey Comments Given the chance to weigh in on the state of the industry, their companies and their employees, manufacturing managers reveal what you always suspected: Things are tough out there, and they're likely to only get tougher. |
Inc.
May 1, 2000
Leigh Buchanan |
On the Street Where You Live Why don't more inner-city residents start companies on their home turf? Two experienced founders have some answers. |
Inc.
June 2007
Leigh Buchanan |
What Is an Inner City Company? Here are the conditions that candidates for the 2007 Inner City 100 must meet. |
Entrepreneur
September 2006
Geoff Williams |
Future's So Bright Put on your shades to check out an inner-city entrepreneurship program and one of its stars. |
Inc.
June 2006
Leigh Buchanan |
What Is an Inner City Company? The Initiative for a Competitive Inner City, which compiles this annual list, defines inner cities as core urban areas - excluding central business districts - with higher unemployment and poverty rates and lower median incomes than their surrounding metropolitan statistical areas. |
Inc.
May 1, 2003
John Case |
Vital Signs Finally, some good news about business -- from a place you might least expect it. You will discover it among this year's Inner City 100, the fastest-growing private companies in America's inner cities. |
Inc.
June 2007
Leigh Buchanan |
Raising Revenue, Building Blocks From Austin to Anchorage, America's fastest-growing inner city companies are cultivating business and goodwill in struggling neighborhoods. |
Inc.
June 1, 2000
George Gendron |
That Magic Moment Inc.'s fete to generate support for the cutting-edge research and mentoring work being done by our partner in the project, Harvard professor Michael Porter's Initiative for a Competitive Inner City (ICIC).... |
Inc.
April 23, 2003 |
Mayoral Momentum It's no coincidence that many Inner City 100 companies come from cities that have strong support from public-sector leaders. |
Inc.
June 2006
Leigh Buchanan |
By the Numbers The Inner City 100, class of '06, in snapshot form. |
CIO
September 8, 2009
David F. Carr |
How Lone Star Colleges Consolidated Services and Boosted Uptime When Shah Ardalan joined Houston's Lone Star Community College System as CIO in February 2008, its information systems were an embarrassment. How Lone Star used efficiencies to fund improvements. |
National Real Estate Investor
May 1, 2005
Stan Luxenburg |
Urban Magic Earvin "Magic" Johnson has helped prove that there is money to be made by retail developers in underserved inner-city markets that have not seen private investment in decades. |
Inc.
May 1, 2000
Mike Hofman |
Urban Outfitters Big-city mayors are eager to make revivified inner cities a part of their legacies... Cleveland... Denver... Chicago... Austin... |
Inc.
May 1, 2002
Mike Hofman |
The Inner City 100 The Inner City 100, year four. The fastest-growing businesses based in some of America's poorest neighborhoods continue to fascinate us... |
