Ingram's Magazine: March 2017
For all the personal, economic and social value created by a successful family business, anyone who has ever owned one has lived with the fear of seeing it all go away. Last year, when she published “Beer Money: A Memoir…
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It can be tough to build a brand from the ground up. Tougher, perhaps to do it twice. In 1981, the Christian Foundation for Children and Aging was founded as a non-profit with a mission of serving precisely the groups…
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FINANCIAL TECHNOLOGY STARTUPS ARE DIGGING INTO PROFITS, CONSUMERS ARE ASKING FOR MORE AND NEWER WAYS TO ACCESS THEIR FINANCES. EVEN THE BIGGEST BANKS ARE HARD-PRESSED TO KEEP UP. THE SMALLER ONES NERVOUSLY EYE WHERE IT’S ALL GOING. Last fall, the…
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Since the advent of the nation’s financial crisis in 2008, bankers have tended to gather under dark clouds at Ingram’s Banking Industry Outlook assemblies, overshadowed by concerns about excessive regulation, lack of qualified borrowers, public misperceptions that commercial banking, rather…
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The Trump administration is committed to reducing the regulatory burden on American businesses to stimulate economic growth and job creation. Many in Washington feel the place to start with regulatory reform is the Dodd-Frank Act. Dodd-Frank was passed in 2010…
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The price of whatever you sell carries with it a discomfort for most salespeople. They’re hesitant to bring up the price because it’s the final element in completing any transaction—or so they think. Actually, price or fee or rate is…
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