When LG switched from a traditional structure--a network of companies with a web of cross- shareholdings under family control--to an American-style holding company, LG Corp.
She founded the King Centre in Atlanta to preserve and display his papers and memorabilia, a lofty undertaking marred in recent years by an intra-family squabble for control.
But Charles River is more the story of a man than of a mouse--a classic tale of a frustrated entrepreneur who wrests control of a family-founded company back from a giant corporation and remakes it in his own image.
It supplies you with the moral and intellectual ammunition to stand up to those claiming to own a piece of you--family, community and state--and take control of your own destiny.
The creation of Class B super-voting shares allowed the Sulzberger-Ochs family to maintain an all-but-unchallengeable control of the company while still allowing it to tap the public markets for capital it needed for expansion.
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He supported the assault-weapons ban and the Brady handgun-control bill, as well as Clinton's family-and-medical-leave act.
She suggested women who had completed their families should consider a permanent form of birth control such as sterilisation, and those who still wanted to have a family considered using a back-up form of birth control, such as a condom, as well as the Pill.
True, cheap, subsidized long-term bank funding has played an important role in the strength of the SME sector in some countries, allowing business owners to invest for the long-term and facilitate multigenerational family control of companies.
Human dignity is not synonymous with citizenship, a vitally important point in an era in which would-be immigrants are denied family unity, non-citizens are detained arbitrarily for the purposes of immigration-control and refugees are denied access to asylum.
Yes, family-run business houses are powerful they control about 40% of stockmarket profits.
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But the secret police and army, his family-connected network of businessmen and cronies, who control much of the economy and suborn enough politicians, and a slavishly deferential state-controlled press all contrive to keep him going.
In April Morgan Stanley and other disaffected investors, representing 28% of the shares in the New York Times Company, ostentatiously withheld their votes at the annual meeting, in protest at the falling share price of the paper under the control of the Ochs-Sulzberger family.
She suspects the reason family-controlled companies dislike debt is because they dislike losing control even more.
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In reaction, Kim Jong-Il has only allowed his closest family members to control the massive internal security structure inside North Korea, going so far as to execute and purge his father's loyalists for insufficient personal allegiance.
And even if the students prevail, they may have to defer to Yemen's real power brokers, the military, tribal and religious leaders, such as Mr Mohsen and the al-Ahmar family, whom Mr Saleh has struggled to control.
This will be a big test for the Batista brothers and for Brazil's tropical brand of capitalism, which mixes family control with traded stock, and finance from state-run banks with foreign acquisitions.
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Other Kim family members control the capital's defense system and the assorted front-line units stationed near the DMZ.
That plan could have given the Marriott family 45% voting control, compared with the 21% it owns--and given the kids of Chief Executive J.
That plan could have given the Marriott family 45% voting control, compared with the 21% it owns--and given the kids of the CEO, J.
Torres came to control In-N-Out after a series of family deaths.
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Factor in consumer comfort with iPhone-like touch control and suddenly businesses are looking at a new family of tools: TV sets that can play an interactive role in a firm.
WeMo Baby is the latest addition to Belkin's WeMo line, a family of simple, intuitive products that use your smartphone and Wi-Fi network to control your home from anywhere.
"This gives them a chance to earn money in a way that is a lot more steady -- they have control over it and that money can come into the family, " says Lucey, who is based in Rhode Island, in the United States.
Another group of Tawheed fighters executed four members of an Aleppan family accused of funding and running a hated pro-Assad militia accused of keeping iron-fisted control over restive areas.
The motor business went to Chung Mong-koo, who is alleged to have made illegal share transfers to enable his family to maintain management control.
Pope claims that these organizations are independent of his control, but, on average, the Pope family foundation supplies them with more than eighty-five per cent of their funds.
The special administrators of his estate -- in control of the purse strings until the will is probated -- did not object to the Jackson family's request.
While Arnault has publicly denied that he intends to take control of the company, various individuals affiliated with Hermes fear he will continue his pattern of acquiring family-owned fashion businesses to expand the LVMH umbrella.
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