Explores the management of family and business issues and helps determine the range of issues that families in business to fight. Describes the dilemma before the sixty-eight-year-old Carl Anderson, semi-retired founder and father of three sons who work with him. The younger son of Charles, Peter, who recently joined the company, proposes that companies make long-term planning and offering ideas that he believes better serve customers. His brothers are regularly turned down offers of Peter, and the tension between the three brothers growing. Charles wants to resolve the growing tensions between his sons. "Hide
by John A. Davis Source: Harvard Business School 7 pages. Publication Date: July 24, 1998. Prod. #: 899011-PDF-ENG