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Discover the essentials of market share, with tips on calculating and interpreting it to understand a company's size and competitiveness in its industry.

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You hear a lot about both "big business" and "small business" in the United States, but you don't hear so much about mid-size businesses. There's a simple reason for that: The federal government doesn ...

In remote locations such as railroad construction sites, lumber camps, turpentine camps, or coal mines, jobs often existed far from established towns. As a pragmatic solution, the employer sometimes ...

Gelles writes about the intersection of climate and the corporate world and has covered Patagonia for nearly a decade. A half century after founding the outdoor apparel maker Patagonia, Yvon Chouinard ...

Mills and smokestacks in Lowell, Massachusetts, considered by some historians to be the first real company town in the U.S. CORBIS During the Industrial Revolution, company towns—communities built by ...

In February 2020, Norm Carson was attending a trade show in Amsterdam, when news about the coronavirus hit. "We went in that day thinking we'd see some customers, do some training and it'd be a ...