Interviews
Face-to-face or virtual interviews captured in video, audio or by written means can be invaluable tools for learning about and understanding how successful people considered and took effective action in their life situations.
Interviews are usually conducted by editors of EIX and follow a straightforward format of questions. However, we encourage any member of the EIX community to make an interview proposal. We want to avoid having an interview conducted and then not accepted by EIX. Accordingly, we ask that interviews go through a proposal step before the interview is conducted, using the EIX interview format.
For family firms, the Covid 19 experience has been compared to being battlefield doctors: they are surrounded by trauma and uncertainty, and forced to make decisions without any precedent to guide Read More...
Category: Interviews
Authors: Mat Hughes and Torsten Pieper
Daughters are increasingly assuming leadership roles at family firms. In this video, familybusiness.org Editor Kimberly Eddleston talks with two Northeastern University students who will join their Read More...
Category: Interviews
Author: Kimberly Eddleston
Despite decades of striving and some progress, women still face a glass ceiling in many tradition-bound family businesses. In this interview with familybusiness.org Editor Kimberly Eddleston, Read More...
Category: Interviews
Author: Kimberly Eddleston
MAJOR TAKEAWAYS: Make sure you totally understand an industry before you get into it. Don't assume that somebody with equity in your company will work harder. Compliment your competitors in front of Read More...
Category: Interviews
Authors: Catherine Buday and Jon Eckhardt
Entrepreneur, philanthropist and author Simran Mohinani has great role models among her family members, who run Platinum Estates, a thriving enterprise in Europe. Mohinani has three of her own Read More...
Category: Interviews
Author: Kimberly Eddleston
Consultant and author Todd Connor provides wise advice about leaving salaried work and keeping an eye on tomorrow, without jeopardizing your financial future. You're gainfully employed with a steady Read More...
Category: Interviews
Authors: Todd Connor and Daniel Forbes
Women are honing their business and technical skills in preparation for leadership, but many of them still struggle with how they communicate and present themselves. Despite their know-how they still Read More...
Category: Interviews
Author: Kimberly Eddleston
Entrepreneurship comes in different forms, and the experience of being a solo entrepreneur - or a “company of one” - is a form that’s attracting a great deal of interest today. In this Q&A Read More...
Category: Interviews
Authors: Sarah Lempa and Daniel Forbes
About 44 million Americans, including many women, are exploring "sidepreneurship," or starting their own businesses while working full time somewhere else. Done right, it can bring the Read More...
Category: Interviews
Author: Kimberly Eddleston
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is known around the world as a center of learning and knowledge creation. But what is less well-known is the central role the university has played in Read More...
Category: Interviews
Authors: Edward Roberts and Daniel Forbes