Sole Survivor
One third-generation family business has survived imports, mergers, offshore manufacturing and new technologies. Read more
Recent Success Stories Articles
Black Entrepreneurs: A New Generation
As traditional black-owned retail and service businesses decline, new, more ambitious black entrepreneurs emerge. Read more
It's Just Not the Family Way
A nationwide survey asked family-owned companies to rate the importance of various sources of financing. Read more
Bored With the Board
Reader-to-reader advice. Read more
Family Feud
Professional mediators can help resolve family-business disputes. Read more
So Much for an Easy Succession
Chart showing steps family-business owners have taken to ensure the family's continuing participation. Read more
Death, Where Is Thy Sting?
Chart of family-owned business owners' concerns about ownership succession. Read more
Managing Diversity
One company owner's management techniques help to make immigrant workers feel welcome. Read more
Network: July 1992
Network questions and answers. Read more
Fathers and Sons
First-person account on the questions of succession how a family business changes your life. Read more
Why Family Businesses Are Best
The competitive edge of family-run businesses. Read more
Network: January 1992
Network reader-to-reader advice. Read more
The Gamble
Profile of a family-business's attempt to enter the mass market by creating a national brand. Read more
Putting the House in Order
Profile of a CEO's successful strategy that turned around his family's business. Read more
Family Business
Chart illustrating who business owners have chosen to follow in their footsteps. Read more
The Real Hatfield
Profile of a gun maker who relies on the latest manufacturing techniques to produce quality crafted guns. Read more
Bringing up Baby
Starting succession planning early, to minimize taxes and maximize benefits for both your family and company. Read more
This Woman Has Changed Business Forever
The Body Shop mixes business with a devotion to social causes, inspiring both employees and customers. Read more
The New American Dream
A story about the highs and lows of running a family business. 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
Good Things Come To Those Who Wait
CEO slowly phased in non-family board members onto a family board of directors. Read more
Second Wind
Book Review: Smart Growth: Critical Choices for Business Continuity and Prosperity (Jossey-Bass 1989). Read more
An Insider's Guide To Harmony
Manager eases the uncomfortable situation of hiring and firing relatives with a family consensus statement. Read more
Mother and Child Reunion
Mother and son profit from good business relationship. Read more
Share the Wealth, Spoil the Child
Children of successful entrepreneurs discuss the advantages and disadvantages of growing up wealthy. Read more
All In The Family
Chairwoman of Careers USA acquires a husband and a new company president in one man. 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
The Turnaround
How a dying division of International Harvester became one of America's most competitive small companies. Read more
Black-owned Businesses
When it comes to black entrepreneurs, there's good news and bad news. Black Americans are creating new businesses at a much faster pace than the economy ... 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
A Winning Combination for the Personal Computer
Mitch Kapor of Lotus discusses the advent of personal computing in the business world Read more
An Apple On Every Desk
How Apple Computer has inaugurated the workplace of the future Read more
After 81 Years, Pirsch
They make every fire engine by hand, says the founder's great-grandson, and that's why the company has been around longer than any other. Read more
