business enterprises

Henry Reed keeps a journal of his summer activities which include setting up a research firm and embarking on a series of usually profitable projects with the aid of his ally and neighbor Midge.

Fourteen-year-old Kevin is a hard worker, so when his income is cut off he begins a series of businesses, from poker games to selling snacks, earning money to take a girl to a dance, but his partners soon tire of his methods.

Things get out of hand for a twelve-year-old boy when a neighbor convinces him to expand his summer lawn mowing business.

A collection of schemes that suggest how to make money and what to do with it (besides spend it).

Although his father has forbidden it, Ernie, a twelve-year-old business tycoon, makes a tidy profit in the pet funeral business, but when he refuses to give his star employee a raise and the business starts to fall apart, it takes the death of his own dog to bring everyone back together.

Sixth-graders Mac and Vince find their business threatened by a new administrator, hired to clean up the school, and face added dilemmas when they agree to help Trixie Von Parkway, an eighth-grader who wants to get a teacher fired and who might not be who she claims to be.

Contains nearly four hundred entries that examine key concepts important to the history of American business, as well as biographies of notable inventors, entrepreneurs, and industrial and business leaders; arranged alphabetically within five time periods ranging from 1607 through the twentieth century.

Traces the development of the corporate form of business over the course of one thousand years, and uses a wealth of examples to show the major characteristics, governing rules and regulations, operation, and future of the corporation.

Tells how a seven-year-old boy and his sisters started a wreath-making business which, over the course of six years, grew to include other businesses, marketing, wholesaling, and investing, and netted more than $16,000.