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How to Grow Your Firm the Right Way

Once a business owner/manager has identified the current earnings power and liquidity position of the Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Author: Phil Greenwood

The Next Generation Can Help the Family Firm Innovate

  Much has been written about how family businesses can have transition problems when the founder's children take over.  Best Buy founder Richard Schulze and Ritch Sorenson of the Read More...

Category: Interviews

Authors: Richard Schulze and Ritch Sorenson

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

The Corleones of "Godfather" fame are an extreme example of a “family business.” But like many family businesses, they have a family member who is a serious hindrance to their business, is less Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Author: Kimberly Eddleston

Why Does EOS/Traction Work So Well for Family Businesses?

Imagine this not so uncommon family business situation. In a f ourth-generation family business, the transition between the previous generations always went from the father to son in the business: Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: Sara Stern

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

Joe Brito, the third-generation head of C.B. Utility Co. in Bristol, Rhode Island, started his career in the family business as a laborer.  He firmly believes that anybody entering their family Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: Kimberly Eddleston

A Road Map for Resurgence

Here’s how entrepreneurs and managers can build on the resilience forged in the pandemic to achieve resurgent Read More...

Category: Commentary

Authors: Kimberly Eddleston and Daniel Forbes

You Have Our Permission Not To Grow

consequences are often devastating after this “stall point:” market capitalization plummets, senior management Read More...

Category: Commentary

Authors: Jason Pattit and Katherina Pattit

A New Entrepreneur Focuses on Staffing Plans

Entrepreneurs often begin with an idea and manage their new business alone — at least in the early stages Read More...

Category: Features

Author: Leslie Hunter-Gadsden

How Quickly Should Entrepreneurs Pursue Opportunities? Insights from the Mining Industry

My study co-authored by Rene Bakker —published in the Academy of Management Journal in February 2017— Read More...

Category: Research Insight

Author: Dean Shepherd

Entrepreneurship in an Era of Digital Transformation

Moreover, their digitally connected employees will require a new kind of management and culture-building Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: Elisabeth E. Bennett, PhD