Business & Finance

SmartMoney (1-year)

SmartMoney comes to you straight from the editors of the Wall Street Journal, the best financial reporters in the business. Every issue brings you the information you need to know to deal with markets and protecting your wealth. Turn to SmartMoney for no-nonsense advice you can put into action.

Kiplinger's Personal Finance Magazine

KIPLINGER'S PERSONAL FINANCE MAGAZINE provides affluent readers with the information they need to make smart decisions about their money. Each issue includes intelligent reporting on investments, taxes, insurance, paying for college, planning for retirement, home ownership, major purchases such as cars and computers and other personal finance topics.

Formerly called Kiplinger's Personal Finance Magazine.

Fast Company (1-year)

Who Reads Fast Company?
Fast Company is written for the innovative pioneers who are transcending the boundaries of normal business conventions and shaping the business world. Fast Company showcases the individuals and companies who impact the world through creative ingenuity. With a unique focus on innovation, design and sustainability, Fast Company continues to advise and inform its readers in a way unlike any magazine.

Fast Company is printed on 100% recycled paper, and is dedicated to the preservation of the environment and makes sustainability part of its core mission.

What You Can Expect in Each Issue:

• Fast Talk: A brief glimpse that focuses on a specific subject and highlights the players and innovators who are shaking things up.
• Now: A summary of the major events and occurences that are happening during the current month
• Next: A look at what is on the horizon in the future of design, innovation and sustainability
• Columns: "Scobleizer," the tech guru's take on the emergence of new technology; "Made To Stick" a look on what is going on in the world of marketing; "Not So Fast," Elizabeth Spiers' column which explores the Pros and Cons of a business dilemma.
• Features: Fast Company's feature articles cover everything ranging from the innovators in business who are currently shaping the world to the pioneers who will do so in the future. Recent features have covered the brand that is Barack Obama, a look at the competition for Steve Jobs and Apple, and Jonathan Goodwin's ability to turn a Lincoln Continental into a 100mpg gas saver. Fast Company also has annual features such as its Masters of Design and Fast 50 issues which showcase the leaders in the world of design and the top 50 innovators and companies who will soon change the world.

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Magazine Layout:
Fast Company approaches its visual imagery with style, attitude and verve. Fast Company's visual presence is edgy and elegant and truly breathes life into the story. Every issue of Fast Company is printed on high-quality, 85% post-consumer waste recycled paper giving it a textured feel unlike any other magazine.

Comparisons to Other Magazines:
Fast Company is the most creative business magazine in the industry today. Through its innovative focus on design and the movers and shakers in the business world, Fast Company offers its readers solutions and strategies unlike any other magazine. Fast Company separates itself from its competitors by striving to practice and promote sustainability. Fast Company is printed on 100% recycled paper and its staff works in a LEED certified green building.

Advertising:
Fast Company's advertisers are as affluent and diverse as its readers. The majority of advertisers are in the technology, financial, media and automotive industries.

Awards:
Fast Company has won numerous awards including the National Magazine Award for General Excellence. Recently, Fast Company was recognized as the Best Publication in the Delaney Report's quarterly issue. It was also recently named to the prestigious Adweek hot list.

Fast Company has been dedicated to covering the latest cutting-edge developments in the business world. With a unique focus on the emergence of design and the ever growing culture of sustainability Fast Company continues to advise and inform its readers in a way unlike any other magazine. It transcends the boundaries of normal business conventions by showcasing organizations and individuals who impact the world through creative ingenuity.

Provides information which empowers innovators to challenge convention and create the future of business

Inc. (1-year)

Who Reads Inc.?
Inc. is the only major business magazine edited exclusively to guide CEOs and owners of small-to-midsize companies to success. Inc. provides fresh, insightful analyses to give the major players in the business world the tools they need to excel. Each issue uses real life examples of strategies, case studies, and successes and failures edited specifically to illuminate new ways in which its readers can benefit. Big and small organizations alike turn to Inc. to make sense of ever-changing business world.

The pages of Inc.are printed on 100% recycled paper. Inc. is dedicated to the preservation of the environment and makes sustainability a part of its core mission.

What You Can Expect in Each Issue:

• Priority: Provides real-world examples and stories and looks at the people behind the decisions, giving readers a mix of practical advice, insight, and inspiration.
• Finance: Money is the lifeblood of any company. And Inc.'s Finance section helps entrepreneurs find it, allocate it and manage every aspect of it.
• Sales + Marketing: Inc.'s much-asked-for section gives an insider's look at the tactics, strategy and trends to boost company owners' revenue and buzz factor.
• Managing: Through case studies and answers to smart questions, Inc. gives readers practical information and insider secrets to help manage and lead their companies to success.
• Technology: Reviews of the best tech tools and best practices to give entrepreneurs the edge.
• Case Study: Inc. takes readers inside a major decision point by looking at a business at a crossroads, with a panel of experts dissecting the company's decision.
• Ask Inc.: Readers ask questions. Inc. answers them. In "Ask Inc.," readers facing thorny business problems get their questions answered by experts and leading entrepreneurs.
• Street Smarts: Three-time Inc. 500 winner and ASME-nominated columnist Norm Brodsky offers inside advice to entrepreneurs, from someone who truly knows the ups and downs of the entrepreneurial life.
• Guest Speaker: Some names are familiar to many, others to a few. All of the guest speakers have unique and valuable insights to offer owners of growing businesses.
• How I Did It: How I Did It gives entrepreneurs the chance to tell their inspiring—and—often—surprising—stories of business success.
• Features: Inc's features provide a diverse mix of stories that take an in-depth look at the struggles within entrepreneurial companies and the lessons they reveal. Inc's most popular issue, the annual Inc. 500, ranks the fastest growing private companies in America. Inc. also covers successful start-ups, entrepreneurial innovators, valuation guides and much more.

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Magazine Layout:
Inc. features a clean, cutting-edge layout by juxtaposing high-impact visuals with strong, decisive typography. The pages of Inc. are 100% recycled, 80% postconsumer waste.

Comparisons to Other Magazines:
Inc. is the only business magazine edited and written specifically for entrepreneurs. Every issue provides detailed analyses and case studies that enable real business owners to solve real problems in the real world. Inc. goes into more detail and covers more ground than any other magazine in its class. One of the many ways Inc. separates itself from its competitors is by striving to practice and promote sustainability. Inc. is printed on 100% recycled paper and its staff works in a LEED certified green building.

Advertising:
Inc's advertisers are as affluent and diverse as its readers. The majority of the advertisers in Inc. are in the technology, financial, media and automotive industries.

Inc. is the only major business magazine edited exclusively to guide CEOs and owners of small-to-midsize companies to success. Inc. provides fresh, insightful anaylyses to give the major players in the business world the tools they need to excel. Each issue, written by managerial gurus and experts, utilizes real life examples of strategies, case studies, and successes and failures edited specifically to illuminate new ways in which its readers can benfit. Big and small organizations alike turn to Inc. to make sense of ever-changing business world.

18X/YR--Monthly w/extra issues. Articles on financial & personnel management, marketing, administration, sales and operations for executives & managers of small to mid-sized companies.

The Economist

The Economist is a global weekly magazine written for those who share an uncommon interest in being well and broadly informed. Each issue explores domestic and international issues, business, finance, current affairs, science, technology and the arts. Your paid subscription to The Economist also includes unlimited access to Economist.com and our searchable archive.

Harvard Business Review

"Process is God" might well be the motto of this management resource. The Harvard Business Review is all about best practices and better practices and being front and center with the latest and greatest ideas about how to run anything from a railroad to a recovering dotcom. Although the magazine's eagerness to adopt buzzwords makes it a target for jargon watchers, it is at heart conservative and cautious. What is the key to success, according to the Harvard Business Review? Lead, motivate, innovate! And then use the performance measurement tool of the month to make sure that the leading, motivating, and innovating worked, you know, just to be on the safe side. --Edith Sorenson

If you're playing a role in your company's future -- if you're in a position to influence its performance -- if you're leading change -- you need Harvard Business Review. Now published monthly, HBR brings practical, hands-on ideas and techniques to strengthen your power to lead people to success.

Written for upper level management. Presents analysis of management problems and helpful commentary on advanced thinking and practice in all fields of management and administration.

Entrepreneur

Entrepreneur magazine is for businesses owners, offering inspiration and information on marketing, management, technology, the latest trends and strategies.

Articles, interviews, business profiles, financing, marketing, advertising and legislative news of note aimed at the small business owner or those planning to start a new or additional business.

The Economist

The Economist is a global weekly magazine written for those who share an uncommon interest in being well and broadly informed. Each issue explores domestic and international issues, business, finance, current affairs, science, technology and the arts. Your paid subscription to The Economist also includes unlimited access to Economist.com and our searchable archive.

SmartMoney (2-year)

SmartMoney comes to you straight from the editors of the Wall Street Journal, the best financial reporters in the business. Every issue brings you the information you need to know to deal with markets and protecting your wealth. Turn to SmartMoney for no-nonsense advice you can put into action.

Forbes

Many magazines publish lists, ranking best and worst and most improved, but Forbes alone can claim its readership is on the list. Each year, the magazine names the richest people and the biggest companies, and those very folks subscribe to this nervy and sly business pub. Forbes covers global business stories with insight, solid sourcing, and the sort of groupie zeal usually reserved for fanzines. No merger, new ad campaign, or lawsuit goes unnoticed and stories always focus on the movers who are shaking things up. Read Forbes to make sense of today's volatile market--or just for the sheer pleasure of reading good reporting. --Edith Sorenson

Forbes focuses on top management and those aspiring to positions of corporate leadership in business. This insider publication features information on successful companies and individuals, industries, marketing, law, taxes, technology, computers, communications, investments, management performance

For corporate officers and other major executives in business interested in developing management insight through review of the nation's largest corporations.