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Family Firm Values Start at an Early Age

In her third interview with Familybusiness.org, Mitzi Perdue shares strategies from her book entitled, " How to Communicate Values to Children So They'll Love It ." Values, as she points out, help Read More...

Category: Interviews

Author: Kimberly Eddleston

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

Firm But Flexible Parents Raise the Best Family Business Leaders

interviewee, who described his parents as “strict but supportive,” said this translated to how he managed Read More...

Category: Research Insight

Authors: Kimberly Eddleston , Kristen Shanine and Kristen Madison

The New Normal: Overcoming Post-Pandemic Challenges to Survival and Growth

At EIX and familybusiness.org many of our best-read articles in 2020 and 2021 gave advice on managing Read More...

Category: Commentary

Authors: Daniel Forbes and Kimberly Eddleston

She Always Gives Her All to the Family Firm -- but He Follows the Leader

Family business managers and advisors must recognize that employees’ motivations and behaviors are different Read More...

Category: Research Insight

Authors: Kimberly Eddleston and Kristen Madison

Becoming the Boss: Advice for Women in Family Businesses

  Every family business founded or led by a man eventually must go through a changing of the guard -- and today more women relatives are taking over the helm from a patriarch. Despite this Read More...

Category: Interviews

Author: Kimberly Eddleston

How Family Firms Help Non-Family Employees Feel Like Family

Business families tend to put family members in strategic management positions and aim to pass on the Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Authors: Peter Jaskiewicz , Josh Hsueh , Elizabeth Tetzlaff and Giovanna Campopiano

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

'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

How Family Firms Can Prevent (or Cool Down) Sibling Rivalries

popular press and serve as inspiration for television series like HBO’s Succession, many siblings manage Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Authors: Jonas Ruzek and Kimberly Eddleston