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How Family Businesses Survive Unexpected ‘Wild Cards’

One of the key concerns for family businesses is continuity. Read More...

Category: Research Insight

Authors: Wojciech Czakon , Monika Hajdas and Joanna Radomska

Wealth Can be Hazardous to Future Family Business Leaders

  Preparing the next generation for leadership is an important mission for family businesses. Read More...

Category: Interviews

Author: Kimberly Eddleston

Women Show Their Strengths When Family Businesses are in Trouble 

Since all of us have studied family businesses and are members of business families ourselves, we wanted Read More...

Category: Research Insight

Authors: Allan Discua Cruz , Eleanor Hamilton , Giovanna Campopiano and Sarah Jack

How to Fix Succession Conflicts Stemming From Complicated Families

, experienced similar levels of connections to the owning family and the family firm, and achieved similar Read More...

Category: Research Insight

Authors: Leona Rethmann and Nadine Kammerlander

Why Family Businesses Must Mind the (Generation) Gap

  Family businesses are unstoppable when they benefit from the wisdom of founders and older leaders Read More...

Category: Interviews

Author: Kimberly Eddleston

Divorce Can Hollow out a Family Business — But it Doesn’t Have to

Many public examples of messy divorces of business-owning families often focus on the decay of family Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Authors: Kimberly Eddleston and Jonas Ruzek

Helicopter Parenting Can Hurt Future Family Business Leaders

  The founders of many longstanding family businesses likely had parents who insisted on responsibility Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: Kimberly Eddleston

How Famous Family Firms Use Their History to Connect With Stakeholders

Sometimes relatives who inherit the family legacy and run the business together may see the family’s Read More...

Category: Research Insight

Authors: Luca Manelli , Vittoria Magrelli , Josip Kotlar , Federico Frattini and Antonio Messeni Petruzzelli

How Families Can Run Their Businesses With Both Head and Heart

Adam Smith’s LinkedIn channel to talk about a challenge that all family businesses face: the pull between Read More...

Category: Commentary

Authors: Mat Hughes and R. Adam Smith