Author Archives: Stan

You can’t hide from human intuition

Dear Stan, We have been negotiating with a strategic buyer of our company for about a year now.  The year has been full of business challenges that could have derailed the sale, but we addressed them all and the buyer … Continue reading

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The essence of leverage

“Dear Stan, We’ve been negotiating with a current partner to spin out a business entity from the partnership as our separate ownership.  It’s a segment of our joint business activities that is no longer congruent with the partner’s mission and … Continue reading

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Would you buy a low mileage steed from me?

Since money was invented around several thousand years ago, and probably before that, people have been dickering over trade.

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The business of “corrections”

As of 2008, there were roughly 2.3  million inmates in state and federal prisons, and local jails, representing about 0.7 % of the entire population, and about 1.0 % of the adult population.

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