The Fast Company Executive Board is a private, fee-based network of influential leaders, experts, executives, and entrepreneurs who share their insights with our audience. BY Tom Freiling On its face, ...

Forming successful partnerships is like composing a piece of music for an orchestra. Fundamentally, each section needs to work well together, but that's not enough. Each stage of the process can ...

The partnership would focus on expanding commercial and business operations while offering a capital line of credit to 16 ...

I’ve been thinking about the alchemy of impactful partnerships a lot lately: We’ve been lucky to have some amazing partnership wins over the last decade — and plenty of failures, too. Over time, my ...

Discover how partnerships handle decision making through consensus, democracy, or delegation, and the impact of business structure on these processes.

Knowledge and trust are fundamental to developing global business partnerships. In my work with EB-5 partners across the world, I follow these five steps to ensure that we meet our business goals with ...

Keith Richards and Mick Jagger. Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer. Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger. Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard. What do these famous partnerships have in common? They lasted a long ...

Today, more than ever before, there are immense benefits for large contractors to team with small businesses. Supporting small businesses in government contracting is vital for the nation’s citizenry ...

In the journey of entrepreneurship, finding the right business partner can make all the difference between success and stagnation. In over two decades of business coaching, I have seen business ...

Business partnerships can seem like an ideal arrangement — combining talents, sharing risks, and pooling resources to build something greater than what one person could achieve alone. The allure of ...

The Fast Company Executive Board is a private, fee-based network of influential leaders, experts, executives, and entrepreneurs who share their insights with our audience. In the ever-evolving ...

Business partnerships fail frequently. According to alliance consultant Peter Simoons, the alliance failure rate statistics are all over the map — ranging from 20 to 80 percent. After conducting four ...