How 100-Year-Old Companies Survive

I just returned from a trip to Florida which included an interesting day in St. Augustine. Most people have heard St. Augustine's claims...

There seems to be two schools of thought regarding the purpose of a business and the pursuit of profits. The traditional financial manageme...

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...