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For many fathers and sons, that personal relationship also blends into their careers. About 80 percent of businesses in the United States are family owned, according to the Center for the Study for Taxation in Washington.
Mixing the parent-child dynamic with a business partnership can be as rewarding as it is challenging. A trust not often [...]

There are lots of different ways to sell a company. Each has its pros and cons.
By ARDEN DALE
March 17, 2008; Page R6
For many entrepreneurs, selling a business can be almost as complicated as running one.
Whether they turn the company over to trusted managers, or sell it in a way that rewards employees, or just sell it to [...]

It is one of the toughest questions that parents who own businesses confront — how can they be equitable in their estate planning when one child works for the company but others don’t?
The answer: It isn’t easy. But the best way to preserve harmony and, possibly, the business is to communicate with family members and [...]

Yet as any economist knows, business cycles rise and fall, markets crash and chief executives come and go %26#151; sometimes in handcuffs. On Thursday, the entire leadership of the Gambino crime family %26#151; those with the equivalent of corner offices %26#151; was arrested in a series of devastating raids that lopped off not just [...]

Yet as any economist knows, business cycles rise and fall, markets crash and chief executives come and go %26#151; sometimes in handcuffs. On Thursday, the entire leadership of the Gambino crime family %26#151; those with the equivalent of corner offices %26#151; was arrested in a series of devastating raids that lopped off not just [...]

Dec. 31 (Bloomberg) — Heidi Marie Petersens knowledge of
strategy and spreadsheets at a board meeting in Norway last year
made a male colleague sit up and take note.
“Wow! You actually know something [...]