These simple tips helped Ed Stack turn his father’s small business into a sporting goods empire worth over $18 billion.

When Dick’s Sporting Goods Park, the $71 million home of the Rapids, opened in 2007, there were high hopes in Commerce City that it would become a destination for more people than just soccer fans.

Houstonian Marilyn Oshman, a leading art advocate and collector who helped found the Orange Show Foundation and Art Car ...