His father ran a chain of cinemas and his mother was a pianist.

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His father owned a chain of petrol stations, and much else.

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W. Marriott runs the hotel chain his father created.

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On a recent tour of the damage, Rick and Chris Doody, who operate the chain with their father, Alton, said they will likely shutter the New Orleans location, while keeping their store in nearby Metairie open.

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That made it a challenge for him to run the U.S. arm of Luxottica, the eyewear chain controlled by his father, Leonardo.

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That made it a challenge for him to run the U.S. arm of Luxottica Group, the eyewear chain controlled by his father, Leonardo.

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Pritzker, age 54 and an heir to the Hyatt Hotels Corp. fortune, is married with kids and runs a San Francisco private equity firm that has bet on a very different hotel chain from the one his father and grandfather built.

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He is on constant call as "mentor, father and shrink, " says Khajak Keledjian, whose chain of 26 trendy Intermix stores counts Rosen's various brands among its best sellers.

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He also might have inherited a bit of the entrepreneurial gene from his father, who co-founded the Red Roof Inns motel chain.

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By 19 he was an assistant manager at the Albertsons chain, owned a house and was making more than his father had ever made as a schoolteacher.

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Jere Thompson Jr. had the experience of watching his father and uncle drive the family's 7-Eleven empire -- a worldwide convenience-store chain that his grandfather started with a single Dallas icehouse in 1927 -- into Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 1990.

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