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Why Family Businesses Come Roaring out of Recessions

Harvard Business Review

To answer that question, we compared the performance of 148 publicly listed family-owned companies between 2000 and 2009 with that of 127 non-family businesses using Standard & Poor’s Compustat database. Just how do family businesses perform during recessions, when only the strong survive? during the growth years to 0.8

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Filing for a Patent Versus Keeping Your Invention a Trade Secret

Harvard Business Review

Wyeth, a pharmaceutical acquired by Pfizer in 2009, was the sole supplier of Premarin. These choices are strategic, and a company must think about the broader picture too of the overall intangible assets your company possesses.