Learning in the Classroom and Beyond
//August 18, 2025 - Issue #148
Family Business Professors: 40 Ways to Energize Your Class These free classroom exercises, interviews and other resources will add new energy, fun and inspiration to your students' course work.
What Family Firms Can Teach Us About Work-Life Balance Blurring work and personal lives can lead to stress and exhaustion. Family businesses do these four things to create healthier boundaries.
Family Firms: The Time to Learn About AI is Now Like the telephone or the internet, AI is here to stay, and we need to learn how to work with it.
Helping Next-Gens Envision Their Family Firm’s Future Success This classroom exercise seeks to motivate future family firm leaders to think ahead and design a holistic vision of their family firm in 10-15 years, covering many different (and potentially conflicting) aspects of it. 
CEOs Who've Been Mentored Achieve Better Financial Results Family firms where the departing CEO has mentored the successor enjoyed stronger return on assets. 
Growing Pains: Helping a Family Office to Evolve The Single Family Office should be a strategic partner that ensures future stability, but this family saw them as a piggybank. 
Team Exercise: How Parenting Styles Affect The Next Generation This experiential exercise is designed to enhance student learning about the four parenting styles and how they affect the dynamics within the family firm. 
The Psychology of Effective Exit Planning: A Guide for Families and Advisors Family firms can help the next generation move forward by understanding and supporting the emotional aspects of the exit for the current leader.
ESG Essentials For Family Firms ‘ESG is an existential issue. Businesses that don’t demonstrate their commitment to sustainable practices could be punished by consumers, the media and even regulators.’ 
A New Way to Resolve Extreme Conflict in Family Businesses Family members may feel “trapped” in conflicts, unable to resolve substantive issues without damaging their familial relationships. This often leads to disputes that persist for decades. 
Why Don't You Educate Your Owners? Everyone agrees that families should train members to become competent owners and stewards of the family business – but few of them actually walk the talk.Search & Save Enter search below to create an easy reading list
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Family Culture Can Block (or Unlock) Innovation
by Ricardo Romano and Alessandra Bussi Moratti
/ Research Insight
Low trust, resistance to change, and intergenerational communication gaps can prevent new strategies and collaboration from taking root. Read more...
Are Your Family and Business Thriving Together - Or Undermining Each Other?
by Kimberly Eddleston and Jennifer Jennings
/ Research Insight
Like organisms in nature, the relationship between family and business can be mutually beneficial or detrimental. Here's how to strengthen both spheres. Read more...
Family Leaders: Can Your Business Still Sail Without You?
by Bradford C. Jeter, CEPA
/ Practice Insight
Without a map for navigating emergencies and guiding successors after your departure, your business and your legacy could be left adrift. Read more...
5 Practical Tips for Making Business Decisions With Family Members
by Rostyslav Vovk
/ Commentary
Running a family business doesn’t mean always seeing eye to eye, but you can still overcome challenges, resolve conflicts, and evolve as a team. Read more...
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How to Run a Family Business Successfully
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by Philipp Jaufenthaler, Andreas Kallmuenzer, Sascha Kraus, and Alfredo De Massis
How to Plan for a Successful Succession
by Richard Eisenberg
How Family Dynamics Shape Family Businesses
by Joseph Astrachan and Claudia Binz Astrachan
Family Business Succession Planning: 10 Golden Rules
by Tom Rüsen, Torsten Groth, and Arist von Schlippe
Should Your Next CEO be From Outside the Family?
by Kimberly Eddleston
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The Paradox of Choice: Wealth's Impact on Family Potential
by Doug Baumoel
Field of Dreams: Exploration of Entrepreneurial Possibilities
by Michael Lounsbury and Tim Hannigan
Retirement Options and their Consequences for Small Business Owners
by Valeria Alterman and Ariane Froidevaux
How to Pitch Your Startup to Attract Money
by Jonathan Littman and Susanna Camp
Outside Leadership Can Save the Family Business
by Robert Sher
Future Family Business Owners Can Learn to Manage Conflict
by Ritch Sorenson
Supported by the Richard M Schulze Family Foundation