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Listen to the Experts: How Family Firms are Surviving the Pandemic

They often offer valuable lessons about how the family business managed to overcome past challenges, Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: Kimberly Eddleston

From Entitlement to Contribution

More Articles on Managing Relatives When Entrepreneurs Raise Entrepreneurs "There's No Birthright" and Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: Robert Caldwell

To Engage Business Students, Roll Out 'the Barrels'

this exercise is to provide a platform for students to use their creativity in a family business management Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Authors: Whitney Peake and Teran Sundy

Three Strengths that Can Help Family Firms Survive Covid

least in well-functioning family businesses, stakeholders have reached a stasis in which they can manage Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Author: Doug Baumoel

A Family Firm Can Be Both an Innovator and a Great Place to Work

Your model for managing employees needs to evolve over time, and tough economic and competitive periods Read More...

Category: Research Insight

Authors: Emanuela Rondi , Ruth Überbacher , Leopold von Schlenk-Barnsdorf , Alfredo De Massis and Marcel Hülsbeck

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

How 1,100 Family Firms Grappled with Covid-19

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

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

5 Ways Family Businesses Can Adapt to Covid-19

This article is part of America’s Entrepreneurs , a Next Avenue initiative made possible by the Richard M. Schulze Family Foundation and EIX, the Entrepreneur and Innovation Exchange . Part of Read More...

Category: Features

Author: Kerry Hannon

'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