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Great Northwest, Inc.'s President and CEO John Minder started his first business in the fourth grade. 'My father had six or seven greyhounds, and he got me a contract for [...]

Lynden's Chairman Jim Jansen explains the company's success succinctly: 'We put the customer first.' Jeanine St. John, VP of Lynden Logistics, adds, 'When we say we put the customer first, [...]

Calling Kathryn and Craig Hall go-getters is an understatement. She is a lawyer, the former U.S. Ambassador to Austria and ran for mayor of Dallas in the '90s; he is [...]

For all of our collaborative technologies and connectivity, businesses today remain worlds apart when it comes to the topic of growth and how to deal with the challenges growth brings. [...]

The Oscars are behind us, but the controversy over the under-representation of racial and ethnic minorities and women in the film industry isn't going away any time soon. Particularly in [...]

It's Personal 'Visionary' and 'integrity' are words that are tossed around freely when retailers and brand executives describe Henry Segerstrom. WWD asked a few who have stores at South Coast [...]

As Bay Area businesswomen reach for the heights of corporate, civic and small business leadership, they are redefining for themselves what it means to be successful. The women in this [...]

Byline: Carolyn Duffy Marsan Is it worth all the effort - the gauntlet of AP classes, standardized tests, private lessons and community service hours -- to get your techie teen [...]

Apple on May 19 celebrated 10 successful years at retail. The company started its retail push hoping to get more consumers to think about buying Apple computers. Now, more than [...]

Why not enlist the public to do your slogans for you? 'Crowdsourcing' may amount to a free pitch, but it can make your audience feel involved, says Jim Davies A [...]

Nine Queen Bees from the UK food and drink industry teamed up with Farm Africa to build ground-level beehives for women farmers in Tanzania. Here's why You won't catch women [...]

Blue Ribbon Dry Cleaners at 97 Portsmouth Ave. in Exeter 'is the oldest dry cleaner in New Hampshire,' says Brian Fieidsend, one of the owners of the business. The business [...]

BEGINNING 41 YEARS AGO with the purchase of a former Quality Inn, Harris Rosen single-handedly built Rosen Hotels & Resorts into an award-winning seven-hotel chain with some 6,500 total rooms [...]

DURING THE 2014-15 TV SEASON, broadcast networks have seen continued erosion of live/same-day ratings, but if there is a ray of hope, it is the success they found with increased [...]

NEW YORK, NY -- This year, Silestone celebrates 25years of color and innovation as a world leader of quartz surfacing. To commemorate this anniversary, the Cosentino Group held an event [...]

The success of UK-based Centronic, now in its 70th year, stems from a record of evolutionary development combined with the ability to take on new technical challenges. Since it started [...]

I've always liked the idea of the rental industry Hall of Fame developed by the American Rental Association. An actual hall of fame museum such as professional sports leagues have [...]

When you run a business, it is easy to get caught up in the day-to-day challenges and lose sight of the bigger picture. Many businessowners and managers find much of […]

When a marketer throws its business into review, the incumbent agency has some serious thinking to do about whether to defend or walk away. Perhaps the marketer has a larger [...]

Hold the front page Why some papers manage to stay alive and kicking FOR all the woes of local newspapers across Britain, there are those that thrive. Among them are [...]

Branding Branding one are the days when a thriving salon was about great hairdressing alone. A successful business is based on a cocktail of expertaccounting, strategic planning and plenty of [...]

Eric Easter, Former CEO, Huntington Furniture As you know, (case goods importer) Huntington Furniture is no longer an independent entity. Bruce Frenzel, Huntington's senior vice president, and I had our [...]

While other companies are trying to tempt consumers with nostalgia, the Spanish bank has said it will phase out its Abbey, Bradford & Bingley and Alliance & Leicester brands by [...]

The Furniture Transport Group (FTG) has been growing, through good economic times and bad, ever since company president David E. Brenner founded it as Caldwell Freight Lines in 1986. Today, [...]

Byline: Christopher A. Voss The results of a study of success and failure in advanced manufacturing technology are reported. The author argues that success comes in two stages: technical success and business success (realization of the full benefits). The research found that technical success is not sufficient for the realization of business success. The study also found that outright failure was rare; but that companies often failed to achieve all the benefits. It concluded that the full benefits of advanced manufacturing technology are achievable, but many companies have yet to achieve them.

Byline: Vivien Walsh This paper explores the nature of design, considering the overlap, similarities and differences between design and technological innovation. It examines the evolution of ways in which the contribution of design to business success and national competitive performance has been evaluated, and some of the indicators that may be used for this purpose. Results of two research programmes on design and its role in business success are then discussed.

Medical laboratories are places where cultures and specimens that spell the difference between life and death are analyzed. They also are places that rely on equipment that's powered by specialized [...]

By Suzanne Mills-Winkler 10 tips to improve your chance for success I have been designing toys for more than 20 years and am frequently asked for advice about what it [...]

Melissa Galt I'm in the know -- I stay in touch and abreast with the daily news, the markets and more. And I've noticed that during this alleged and perceived [...]

By Tim Walsh Marketing moves that made toy biz history Toy historian Tim Walsh recently published a book , Wham-O Super Book (pictured), about the history of one of the [...]

Byline: Raymond J. Prince The questions keep pouring in on the subject of overs and unders - charge for them or don't charge for them, keep them or don't keep [...]

By Tom Reilly Want to make sure your company survives the economic slowdown? Refuse to blend in with the crowd To differentiate is to be different, distinctive and discernable. Differentiators [...]

Only a handful of companies might have actually seen the current economic downturn coming, and Kroger Co. wasn't one of them. Its 6-year-old strategy of lowering prices and cutting costs, [...]

Synopsis: To maintain profits, many businesses are continually looking for ways to reduce costs. Shortchanging the customer experience, however, may cause long-term problems. There's a movement afoot, and it can [...]

Whatever is rightly done, however humble, is noble.- Motto posted (in Latin) at Dorothy Lane Market in Ohio They say that hindsight is 20/20. Everyone from armchair quarterbacks to corporate [...]

By David Huey The really good jugglers know that the more you put in the air, and keep it there, the better. That's especially true of the spinning plates trick [...]

The basic assumption of the dynamic capabilities framework is that todays fast changing markets force firms to respond quickly and to be innovative. This quote is from Wikipedia, where the [...]