Special Issue: Our Best Teaching Advice
//September 13, 2021 - Issue #38
Want to Give Your Entrepreneurship Students Real-World Experience? Try Consulting Projects Students gain exposure to the inner-workings of a business, while entrepreneurs receive a fresh perspective, academic insight and assistance. 
Future Family Business Owners Can Learn to Manage Conflict This classroom exercise dissects the five approaches to managing disputes, and their likely outcomes.
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. 
Confidentiality Agreements Promote Candor in Family Business Classes For students to share their own good and bad family experiences in a family business class, confidentiality is essential.
Real-Life Drama: Creating a TV Series Based on a Family Business From the "director's chair," students illustrate the challenges of the family firm, and what makes a good one.
To Engage Business Students, Roll Out 'the Barrels' A variation of the childhood "choose your own adventure books" improves understanding of succession planning, governance and ethics. 
Videos for the Global Family Business Community These are challenging times for family businesses. These videos share best practices that help business owners, professors and students weather the crisis and manage what comes next. 
Design Remote Learning to Help Students Feel Connected Done right, online teaching can help students actually engage more with their professors and with one another.
Learn to Defend Your Family Firm This classroom exercise helps future family firm members learn to anticipate outside threats to their business and defend it.Search & Save Enter search below to create an easy reading list
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Selling the Family Business? Prepare the Family for What Comes Next
by Susana Quintás
/ Applied and Practice
A business sale changes more than ownership. Families must also rethink governance, roles, wealth, identity, and purpose after the company is gone. Read more...
How Family Business Succession Shapes Innovation in the Next Generation
by Ludovica Del Barone, Maria Annosi, Filomena Buonocore, and Evelyn Micelotta
/ Research Insight
Research on 16 family businesses reveals why some successors build on the previous generation’s innovations while others rarely or never innovate. Read more...
When Political Differences Threaten the Family Business
by Paul Edelman
/ Practice Insight
Political differences can turn dangerous when family members begin dismissing one another’s business judgment based on political identity. Read more...
Why Every Family Business Leader Needs a Peer Group
by Justin Smith
/ Applied and Practice
More than 300 peer-group meetings show what happens when family business leaders have a trusted place to talk with people who truly understand their challenges. Read more...
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How Family Dynamics Shape Family Businesses
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Let the Next Generation of Family Firm Leaders Chart Their Own Path
by Klaus Lüber and Nadine Kammerlander
5 Practical Tips for Making Business Decisions With Family Members
by Rostyslav Vovk
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When Keeping the Business in the Family No Longer Makes Sense
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Supported by the Richard M Schulze Family Foundation