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Family Businesses May Have Advantages in Dealing With Recession

Rod Shrader | Posted 05.25.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Long-Term Planning, Recession, Family Business, Small Business, Chicago Family Business, Family Companies, Family Business Recession, Chicago-Illinois, Chicago News
Rod Shrader

Of the approximately 66,900 businesses in Chicago, almost 23,000 -- well over one-third -- are family-owned.

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Lessons from a Vineyard: Ignore Predictions

Margaret Heffernan | Posted 02.06.2009 | Business

Read More: Leadership, Recession, Family Business, Bekka Valley, Lebanon, Family Business Relationships, Chateau Musar, Cnbc, Business, The Black Swan, Vineyard, Companies, Wine, Preserving Family Businesses, Nicholas Taleb, Family, Beqaa Valley, Business News
Margaret Heffernan

Civil war broke out in the Lebanon in 1977. As Nicholas Taleb recalls in The Black Swan, adults at the time were utterly confident that the war would end in "only a matter of days."

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Only 15 Percent Of Family Businesses Last Three Generations

The Wall Street Journal | Robert Frank | Posted 06.24.2008 | Business

Read More: Family Business, Family Business Relationships, Preserving Family Businesses, Business News

The path to riches usually starts with a family business. To use private-banker jargon, the Patriarch founds the company (they never say Matriarch) an...

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How To Mix Business And Family...And Stay Sane

Mona Ackerman | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living

Read More: The Balanced Life, Family Dysfunction Business, Family Business, Family Business Relationships, Families and Money, Living News
Mona Ackerman

Q: I know that everyone talks about the influence of money in the relationship between a man and a woman, but how about between a mother and a daughte...

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