Family Business Professors: 40 Ways to Energize Your Class
For family business professors and teachers, August means finalizing plans to engage students in the classroom. Here are free classroom exercises, interviews, case studies and other resources that will add new energy, fun and inspiration to your students' course work.
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Videos that showcase family business principles and give an insider’s perspective:
How Founders Can Stay Relevant When the Next Gen Takes Ove
Family Offices: The Sober Guardians of Family Wealth
Generative AI Can Help Grow Your Business
Why Do We Treat Strangers Better Than Family Members?
A Charismatic Family Business Founder Can Be a Tough Act to Follow
Help Your Family Business By Helping Others
How Family Firms Can Innovate With Less
'There's No Birthright' and Other Tips for Raising Entrepreneurial Leaders
Advice for Non-Family Executives in Family Businesses
What it Takes to Build a Four-Generation Business
Why Family Firms are Like Jenga
Encouraging Family Business Members to go the Extra-mile
Hyannis Country Garden is a Family Business With Deep Roots
Classroom exercises and activities:
Helping Next-Gens Envision Their Family Firm's Future Success
Learn to Defend Your Family Firm
Team Exercise: How Parenting Styles Affect The Next Generation
Learning How Family Business Leaders Make Tough Decisions Through Interviews
Understand Your Family Firm's Core Strengths and Weaknesses
Real-Life Drama: Creating a TV Series Based on a Family Business
Designing and Experiencing the Family Business Advisory
Unlocking the Innovation Potential of Family Firms: An Assessment Tool
Let’s Get Professional: Family Firms Need HRM Practices
Future Family Business Owners Can Learn to Manage Conflict
Acres of Diamonds: Advantages of Working in Your Family Business
To Engage Business Students, Roll Out 'the Barrels'
Cases that can easily spur discussion and debate:
Growing Pains: Helping a Family Office to Evolve
How Lowell Wakefield Made Crab King
How Can the Family Business Cope When a Key Non-family Exec Leaves?
How 3 Crises Made a Boat Company More Seaworthy
Readings materials well-suited for family business education:
How the Next Generation Can Earn Legitimacy, Respect and Loyalty
Diversify Your Family's Risks by Returning to Its Entrepreneurial Roots
Outside Leadership Can Save the Family Business
Thriving or Trapped in the Family Business
Too Much Love in the Family Can Hurt
How Family Business Leaders Can Encourage Both Devotion and Performance
The Family Way: How Entrepreneurial Values Help Businesses Thrive Over Generations
The 'Fredo Factor:' How Deadbeats and Troublemakers Hurt Family Businesses
Successful Successions Are Never Smooth
When Entrepreneurs Raise Entrepreneurs
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