Can you help solve this problem? Two brothers run a single remodeling company that consists of two related but distinctly separate businesses, with each of the brothers controlling one of the two subfirms. The company combines revenue from the two sides and then splits the profits equally between the brothers. But one year, one of the businesses experiences unprecedented growth and revenue. Now what? More
For the last seven years, professor Frank Woeste has been studying deck failures at Virginia Tech. He and his colleagues, Joe Loferski and Cheryl Anderson, point to two critical points of failure for decks and balconies ó ledger board attachments and railing systems. Both these connections are rarely detailed correctly, the researchers claim, and their failure can cause a sudden total collapse of the deck. More
