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Facing the Music in a Divorce
With its trendy line of teen fashions, Esprit de Corp, the San Francisco-based company that Doug and Susie Tompkins founded 22 years ago, had been growing rapidly when their marriage hit the rocks. ...
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Why Willing A Trust Beats Trusting A Will
When Conrad Nicholson Hilton died at age 91 in 1978, his will ordained that his 28 percent stake in Hilton Hotels Corp., then worth about $125 million, should go to charity, not to his children. But l...
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They Know What They Like
The art collections of large, public corporations aren't the only ones that stand out. Throughout America, family businesses of all sizes are amassing impressive collections of paintings, sculpture, ...
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The Family Track
Fifty-seven-year-old Tom Carey sometimes stands at the window of his expansive, antique-filled office, looks down over the carefully manicured Hawthorne Race Course in Stickney, Illinois, festooned w...
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The Family Foundation Makes A Comeback
The Rockefeller, Mellon, and Mott families do it. So does former junk-bond dealer Michael Milken. And so does Stanley Lopata of St. Louis. Day to day, fathers and sons, daughters and cousins oversee t...
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The Emerging Muscle of Family Control
News of deep financial troubles at Wang Labs last summer touched off a wave of speculation over why the company, built by entrepreneur An Wang in the Sixties, lost its way in the Eighties. After the b...
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On Working in the Family Business
HIGHLIGHTSCompared with the American work force generally, members of family businesses are a great deal more satisfied with the quality of their work lives. Almost all of our respondents are satisfie...
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A Checklist for Nonfamily Managers
In the current era of frenzied acquisitions, merger mania, downsizing, and belt-tightening, today's disillusioned employees in large corporations are changing careers and companies four or five times ...
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Ruder Finn's Struggle with the N Word
David Finn never thought his children would want to go into the business he started in 1948 with his childhood friend, Bill Ruder. What's more, the 68-year-old executive always believed that nepotism ...
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Masters of Disasters
IT WAS EASIER. Managing the business was so much easier last March when all hell broke loose. Up in Prince William Sound, in Alaska, the super-tanker Exxon Valdez smashed onto the rocks spreading 1...
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What's Two Hundred Years Old and Runs Like Clockwork?
On October 2, 1727, young Christian BixIer set sail for America aboard The Adventure. He emigrated from his native Bern, Switzerland, via Rotterdam to Philadelphia in order to seek his fortune. When h...
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Parasites vs. Plunderers: A No-Win War
Whether Sallie Bingham was the heroine or the villain in the real-life family business melodrama of the year depends largely on one's point of view. As most of us know from the press reports of her s...
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Paying Fair
ALAN CRANE purposely underpays his son, daughter, and nephew — but not because he is stingy. The founder of Chicago's Crane Carton Company, a box manufacturer with $25 million in annual sales, ...
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How to Put Your Business into Print
It is not uncommon for a big company that has been around for many years to commission a corporate history for the benefit of clients, shareholders, and future generations of managers and employees. F...
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