How 100-Year-Old Companies Survive

The stars must have been aligned in 1911 to provide the right conditions for company start-ups that last: I mentioned earlier that IBM is in...

While many local companies over 100 years old that I have interviewed are small, often family-owned businesses, a number of large, very well...

One of my students made a presentation last week on corporate cultures. His literature search was trying to find out if there were cultural ...

When I first presented a paper on West Michigan companies over 100 years old that we had surveyed, one question I received from a colleague ...

Because so many of the 100-year-old local companies I had interviewed were small (less than 100 employees), I had surmised that many old com...

Interviews with local (that is, West Michigan) 100-year-old companies indicated that remaining privately-owned was a key factor in company s...

I'll be presenting the findings of our data base research on 100 year old U.S. companies at the AGB conference in New Orleans this weeke...