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#SVtommies at Mainsail Partners
After hearing about various valuation methods Mainsail uses the students studying in Silicon Valley had some intense Q&A touching on everything from ideal sustainable advantages to supreme bootstrapping techniques.
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Short Answers to Five Questions about Succession
Among listings of a family business’s primary goals is often a successful transition of ownership to future generations, as 88% of family business owners believe the same family or families will control their business in five years. Unfortunately, they’re most often wrong. -
New in 2015: Public Benefit Corporations
As of January 1 Minnesota joins about two dozen other states that offer a specific statutory option for the organization of for-profit but socially minded businesses. For some explanation, we reached out to Daryl Koehn, a professor of Ethics and Business Law. -
Best Wishes for a Wonderful Holiday Season
At St. Thomas, community impacts so many facets of our joint work together, including how we interact with one another and help everyone bring out their best effort. -
And the Bully Wins!
It is the perception of potential to harm, not actual ability to harm that bullies have depended on for millennia, writes Mike Porter. Today the channel to communicate that threat has magnified from a shaking fist on the playground to a worldwide web of chatter. -
Plan, Execute, Win in 2015
If we don’t plan, we have no shot at winning in the year ahead, says guest blogger Patrick J. Stroh '03 M.B.A. And if we don’t execute against that plan in 2015, we will certainly fail. -
Edusling Advances to Hult Prize Regional Finals
Earlier this month 10 teams competed in the inaugural Hult Prize at St. Thomas competition, for the chance to automatically advance to the Regional Finals in one of six cities around the world. -
Those Black Friday Numbers
Are black Friday spending reports wrong? Professor Emeritus Lorman Lundsten says that's not the question we should be asking. -
The Evolution of HR
Guest blogger Chris Dardis dives into why the HR function is ready for an overhaul.