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When a small business is struggling, the first instinct is almost always to sell more. More marketing, more outreach, more networking, a new offer. Sales matter, of course. But growing revenue is slow and uncertain. A new client might take months to land, and might...

On March 1, 1938, a businessman named Lee Byung-chul opened a small trading company in Daegu, in what is now South Korea. He called it Samsung, which means "three stars." It traded groceries, including noodles, dried fish and other goods made in and around the city,...

By the early 1960s, Avis Rent a Car had a long-running problem. It was a distant second to Hertz, the clear leader in the industry, and it hadn't made a profit in more than a decade. In the year before its turnaround, it lost about $3.2 million. Most companies in that...