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Rules that govern one company's purchase of another company are part of the U.S. Federal Tax Laws. The laws are so complex that most businesses use the assistance of a business tax lawyer to decipher ...

Discover the essentials of market share, with tips on calculating and interpreting it to understand a company's size and competitiveness in its industry.

Any company can sell Product X or provide Service Y, but what differentiates you from everyone else in your field is your company philosophy. A company’s philosophy is a distillation of its culture or ...

Why leaders should take a strategic perspective by Gary P. Pisano Perhaps no issue attracts more senior leadership attention than growth does. And for good reason. Growth—in revenues and profits—is ...

A holding company is a legal business entity (usually a limited liability company or C Corporation) that owns or has a controlling interest in one or more companies (called “subsidiaries”). Other ...

You hear a lot about both "big business" and "small business" in the United States, but you don't hear so much about mid-size businesses. There's a simple reason for that: The federal government doesn ...

Pilot Company is one of the leading suppliers of fuel and the largest operator of travel centers in North America. Jim Haslam founded the company in 1958 and his son, Jimmy Haslam, is currently ...

Mills and smokestacks in Lowell, Massachusetts, considered by some historians to be the first real company town in the U.S. CORBIS During the Industrial Revolution, company towns—communities built by ...

Gelles writes about the intersection of climate and the corporate world and has covered Patagonia for nearly a decade. A half century after founding the outdoor apparel maker Patagonia, Yvon Chouinard ...