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How to Choose a Successor
Are you dragging your feet when it comes to creating a succession plan? You shouldn't. Here's how to get started choosing (and training) your replacement. Read more
10 Tips for a Happy Marriage
Business owners who want to keep their spouses happy would do well to live by these simple rules. Read more
An Ex-Con Rejoins His Family Business
After a 20-year criminal career that would see him convicted for six felonies, Dave Dahl was invited by his brother Glenn to rejoin the organic bread busines... View slideshow
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Thanksgiving dinner or meeting of the board? When your family members are investors in your business, the lines get blurry. Read more
Inc. 5000 Applicant of the Week: Technical Consumer Products
Ellis Yan was creating those more efficient spiral light bulbs way before 'green' was a buzzword. Read more
Fresh From Prison, a Brother Rejoins the Family Bread Business
Glenn Dahl was taking an absurd risk in letting his younger brother Dave—recovering addict, six-time felon—back into his life and business Read more
Inc. 5000 Applicant of the Week: Johnny Cupcakes
How a 26-year-old college drop-out created a multi-million dollar t-shirt business with no business plan, no advertising, and no investors. Read more
Inc. 5000 Applicant of the Week: Sew What? Inc.
This family business has a rocking good time sewing stage draperies for the biggest names in the entertainment industry. Read more
Inc. 5000 Applicant of the Week: Plus1 Marketing
How two brothers grew an online marketing firm from the successful strategies of their previous businesses. Read more
Inc. 5000 Applicant of the Week: Mary's Gone Crackers
Entrepreneur Mary Waldner’s gluten allergy led her to start a cracker company. Read more
Relative Success
Why family businesses may weather the recession better than other small businesses. Read more
The Education of an Educated CEO
When Jeff Koeze took over his father's company, he knew almost nothing about it or any other business. But he knew how to learn, and 12 years later, he runs ... Read more
The Success Gene
Why some family businesses thrive year after year after year. Read more
Splitting Heirs [Audio] 
For every family business success story, there are cautionary tales. How can family businesses ensure a smooth transition from one generation to another? ... Watch video
Splitting Heirs
In which two brothers take over the third-generation family wine-selling business. They quarrel, as brothers do. And now it isn't a family business anymore. Read more
Christmas All Year Round
CEO Fred Schwam takes us inside his workshop, which designs holiday decorations for Radio City Music Hall, Saks Fifth Avenue, and other New York City land... Watch video
How I Did It: Gert Boyle, chairman, Columbia Sportswear
Tougher than the rest. Read more
How I Did It: David Blumenthal
The family yarn business was just getting by until knitting became cool (perhaps you've seen Gangsta Knitter?). Now it's on its way to becoming a $200 millio... Read more
It Runs in the Family
The Lacerte clan's four-generation entrepreneurial streak. Read more
Grist: Mom
Who better to defend nepotism than the son of an internationally famous author? In praise of Adam Bellow's new book. Read more
The Heart of a Company
The birth of a seriously ill child set Kenny Kramm on a course from ordinary guy to extraordinary entrepreneur. Read more
Benchmark: Sources of Conflict in Family Businesses
Three graphs that display the hottest issues of contention between generations in long-term family businesses. Read more
Are Your Kids Good Enough to Run Your Business?
Even if you've never considered your company a family business, that question could be very important. Read more
Why Family Businesses Are Best
The competitive edge of family-run businesses. Read more
Fathers and Sons
Personal accounts from fathers and their sons on what it's like to run a family business together. Read more
Splitting Heirs (1988)
Nearly a hundred years ago, Lorenzo Vaughn planted a time bomb in his company. Finally, it went off Read more
Why Daughters Are Better
When it comes to training for the job, winning the respect of employees and customers, and easing the pains of succession, 'daddy's little girl' is probably ... Read more
Will The Son Also Rise?
It was a great romance, while it lasted: Wall Street and the leveraged buyout. Now the two are giving birth to their own mini-phenomenon. According to in... Read more
Nepotism On Trial
A case now before the Supreme Court of the United States is challenging the notion that business owners can favor members of their own families in hiring ... Read more