When your audience hears mixed signals, they lose confidence. Your messaging becomes vague. And soon everybody stops ...

Boris Groysberg is a professor of business administration in the Organizational Behavior unit at Harvard Business School and a faculty affiliate at the school’s Race, Gender & Equity Initiative.

the business's debts are your debts and the business's income is taxed as your personal income. That lack of separation is also the chief disadvantage of a sole proprietorship: You are personally ...