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- 23 Nov 2010
- News
Resolve an Ownership Dispute in a Family Business
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Case Study: Growing the Family Business
(Zoonar RF/Thinkstock; iStock) Sweet Kiddles is a new concept in center-based childcare. Unlike traditional centers where parents must commit to fixed full- or part-time schedules, Sweet Kiddles’ flexible scheduling allows families to use... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Firm Foundation
Courtesy Tracy Britt Cool Courtesy Tracy Britt Cool Tracy Britt Cool (MBA 2009) has been playing the long game as long as she can remember. The former Berkshire Hathaway executive grew up in a family business: Her father was a... View Details
- 02 Jan 2015
- News
Endangered Species: Young U.S. Entrepreneurs
- 03 Feb 2015
- News
Raising a risk-averse generation
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Keeping Hourly Workers Focused on the Stock, Not the Clock
Illustration by Lincoln Agnew Pete Stavros (MBA 2002) got his first lessons in labor relations as a kid at the dinner table, when his father, who operated a road grader at construction sites, told the family about his day. The elder... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
End Game
exit. Yvon drives a Toyota Corolla. No one wanted a Porsche,” Conn says. The idea of a publicly traded benefit corporation fell short, too: “Once you’re public, nothing can lock in your mission forever. And the family felt there could be... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
A Legacy of Support
breakfast with HBS fellowship recipients whom Robert and Myra sponsored, hoping to someday follow in his father’s footsteps as a student and then as a donor. Today, the Krafts work side by side in the family business—best known for its... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
In Character: A Case Discussion Drama
wants to cash out in a few years to achieve better work-life balance. Milan, the workhorse, hopes to carry the family legacy forward. And whatever the outcome, Danijela, the unofficial family mediator,... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
An Electrifying Tale
through it, because my family was absolutely mortified.” In 1989, out of the remains of a bankrupt commercial electric company for which she worked, Cataldo started City Lights Electrical Company. The company grew modestly while she was... View Details
- 06 Jan 2020
- News
Home Grown
Granite Equity, a nontraditional private investment and holding company in St. Cloud, Minnesota, aims to find and support local, family businesses and grow them right where they are. The firm looks for companies that value employee... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Healthy Profit
Matrix allows users—health officials, for example—to assign weights to traditional measures that define the scale of health problems, the impact of diseases on household income, the medical and social spillovers of disease onto other View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Running Up the Score
Sports in America have always had a magical, transcendent allure. Life may be ambiguous but slam dunks and touchdown passes create their own heroic reality and final truth at game's end. Sports are a bond that brings entire communities and View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Style Check
Benetton Brain Trust: After learning at the knee of his father, Luciano, Alessandro is taking the family business forward. Working for his family’s company, whose colorful sportswear and controversial advertising made it a brand of... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Starting Up and Starting Over
Dooley in the early 1970s to meet a need unfulfilled by other HBS executive education programs. As it became clear that ownership made a difference in the attitudes and goals of the participants, the View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Minding Families' Business
sole ownership of Telemedia to their children-Philippe III (MBA '88), François (MBA '89), and Nanon (MBA '91)-de Gaspé Beaubien doesn't see his work as complete. "I can't tell you how much pain exists in View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Short Takes
ownership over time); and family owners (shareholders who are descendants of the firm's founders). "The study suggests that these three owner types have sufficient formal authority, social influence, and... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
American Dream
inheritance to purchase the Wall Drug Store in 1931, it was just that: a drug store. At the height of the Great Depression, in a part of the country sometimes described as “the geographic center of nowhere,” the family struggled to make... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
The Biggest Industry You’ve Never Heard Of
first thing you need to know is that competitive video gaming has been around a lot longer than you think. On November 10, 1980, five teenage boys faced off at the Warner Communications headquarters in Rockefeller Center in the middle of New York City. They had... View Details