Preliminary results of the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2002 Survey of Business Owners show that the number of Black-owned businesses is growing at more than four times the rate of all businesses in the Un
Entrepreneurship
Is your project cruising in the fast lane or stuck in traffic? To keep a project moving quickly, the project team, team leader and project sponsor have to remove or prevent obstacles that may get in t
BY Michelle LaBrosse
Writer-producer-director Ruth Adkins Robinson of de Passe Entertainment is on the road more than half the year. Like many business travelers, she has come up with a few tricks to stay sane and in touc
BY Ann Brown
There is no question in Jim Plotkin’s mind that hiring is the most important job for a supervisor. “How well you hire tells you how well your company will do,” says Plotkin, president of the Plo
BY Michael Kinsman
Imagine a potential customer taking time out of his schedule to call you about your product. The caller gives you a detailed description of what he is looking for and waits for your response. Instead
BY Brent Leary
A recent survey conducted by Interland Inc., a top Internet service provider, identifies establishing “community relations” as the primary marketing strate
Harry Stonecipher was fired recently as Boeing Co.’s chief executive officer not specifically for engaging in a relationship with another employee, but for violating the company’s code of ethics.
BY Michael Kinsman
A few years ago, software application vendors overlooked small businesses, lining up, instead, outside the doors of larger enterprises willing to spend big money on their products and services. But wi
Edie Evans says there are two things she wants to know when she interviews for a job. “I want to know how much it pays and how much time off I get,” says Evans, who is a secretary. She admits that
New York City Recipients of New Markets Tax CreditsLast May, the Community Development Financial Institut-ions Fund (www.cdfifund.gov) announced awards of $3.5 billion in New Markets Tax Credit alloca
BY Isa Abdur-Rahman