Dollar Tree is ending its short-lived and ill-fated Family Dollar experiment, offloading the discount brand for $1 billion – just a fraction of its purchase price from a decade ago. Family Dollar will ...

One of the ways that a company can destroy shareholder value is by acquiring other businesses that turn out to be worth considerably less than their purchase prices. Some Wall Street insiders ...

The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on genealogy, record-keeping and notions of relation. By Kwame Anthony Appiah I have taken over keeping my family tree. I am fortunate that this tree dates to the ...