Family Business Professors: Resources For Online Learning

Due to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic, many professors are quickly revising their courses to be delivered online. FamilyBusiness.org is here to help with an array of free and peer-reviewed resources that can easily be used in an online course. While the examples offered below are geared towards family business courses, our sister website – eix.org – offers a multitude of free and peer-reviewed resources geared toward entrepreneurship and innovation education. 

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Videos that showcase family business principles and give an insider’s perspective:

How Family Firms Can Innovate With Less

https://familybusiness.org/content/How-Family-Firms-Can-Innovate-With-Less

'There's No Birthright' and Other Tips for Raising Entrepreneurial Leaders

https://familybusiness.org/content/Theres-no-birthright-and-other-tips-for-raising

Advice for Non-Family Executives in Family Businesses

https://familybusiness.org/content/advice-for-non-family-executives-in-family-busin

What it Takes to Build a Four-Generation Business

https://familybusiness.org/content/What-it-takes-to-build-a-four-generation

Why Family Firms are Like Jenga

https://familybusiness.org/content/why-family-firms-are-like-jenga

Encouraging Family Business Members to go the Extra-mile

https://familybusiness.org/content/Encouraging-family-business-members-to-go-the-extra-mile

Hyannis Country Garden is a Family Business With Deep Roots

https://familybusiness.org/content/Hyannis-country-garden-is-a-family-business-with-deep-roots

Exercises and activities that can be performed remotely:

Understand Your Family Firm's Core Strengths and Weaknesses

https://familybusiness.org/content/understand-your-family-firms-core-strengths-and-weaknesses

Unlocking the Innovation Potential of Family Firms: An Assessment Tool

https://familybusiness.org/content/unlocking-the-innovation-potential-of-family-firms-an-assessment

Let’s Get Professional: Family Firms Need HRM Practices

https://familybusiness.org/content/Lets-get-professional-family-firms-need-hrm

Future Family Business Owners Can Learn to Manage Conflict

https://familybusiness.org/content/future-family-business-owners-can-learn-to-manag

Acres of Diamonds: Advantages of Working in Your Family Business

https://familybusiness.org/content/acres-of-diamonds-advantages-of-working-in-your

Cases that can easily spur online discussion and debate:

How Lowell Wakefield Made Crab King

https://eiexchange.com/content/231-how-lowell-wakefield-made-crab-king

How Can the Family Business Cope When a Key Non-family Exec Leaves?

https://familybusiness.org/content/how-can-the-family-business-cope-when-a-key-non

Readings materials well-suited for family business education:

Outside Leadership Can Save the Family Business

https://familybusiness.org/content/Outside-leadership-can-save-the-family-business

Thriving or Trapped in the Family Business

https://familybusiness.org/content/thriving-or-trapped-in-the-family-business

Too Much Love in the Family Can Hurt

https://familybusiness.org/content/Too-much-love-in-the-family-can-hurt

How Family Business Leaders Can Encourage Both Devotion and Performance

https://familybusiness.org/content/How-family-business-leaders-can-encourage-both-d

The Family Way: How Entrepreneurial Values Help Businesses Thrive Over Generations

https://familybusiness.org/content/the-family-way-how-entrepreneurial-values-help-b

The 'Fredo Factor:' How Deadbeats and Troublemakers Hurt Family Businesses

https://familybusiness.org/content/the-fredo-factor-how-deadbeats-and-troublemakers

Successful Successions Are Never Smooth

https://familybusiness.org/content/successful-successions-are-never-smooth

When Entrepreneurs Raise Entrepreneurs

https://familybusiness.org/content/When-entrepreneurs-raise-entrepreneurs

Finally, for a list of additional cases, TV shows and movies that could be incorporated into your online course, the following article is excellent:

Case Studies, Movies, TV Shows and Other Family Business Resources

https://familybusiness.org/content/case-studies-movies-tv-shows-and-other-family-bu

From our family to yours, FamilyBusiness.org wishes you the best!

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