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In popular culture, the portrayal of family businesses in movies and TV shows, such as Ridley Scott’s "House of Gucci" or HBO’s "Succession," often revolves around the pursuit of wealth and the Read More...
Category: Applied and Practice
Authors: Claudia Binz Astrachan and Anneleen Michiels
Many entrepreneurs dream of the day when their hard work pays off with riches and financial security. For Grant Muller, that day came before he was age 30, when the startup he was involved in Read More...
Category: Commentary
Author: Grant Muller
Promoting the family behind the family business can often bring benefits. Consumers can feel better about a product or service – and more likely to trust it and buy it -- if they know a Read More...
Category: Research Insight
Authors: Emanuela Rondi , Carlotta Benedetti , Cristina Bettinelli and Alfredo De Massis
In 2013, Chip Tate was on the verge of taking Balcones Distilling to the next level. Since 2008, he had been building his Waco, Texas-based craft whiskey business literally with his own hands, Read More...
Category: Research Insight
Authors: Theodore L. Waldron , Jeffery S. McMullen , Oleg Petrenko , Lori Tribble Trudell , Olivia Aronson and James C Wetherbe
From left, Jeanne Plumley, her daughter Rebecca Miller and Rebecca's daughter Ellery Editor’s note: This article is part of Lessons from Leaders, a Next Avenue initiative made possible by the Read More...
Category: Features
Author: Jennifer Nelson
With family-owned businesses accounting for a whopping share of the economy, the nature of family members’ individual career development in that sector is important and interesting. How indeed do Read More...
Category: Research Insight
Authors: Leona Achtenhagen , Kajsa Haag , Kajsa Hultén and Jen Lundgren
Around the world, women have risen to the upper echelons of family businesses. But among women who are wives of the family business leader, even those involved in the business themselves, attitudes Read More...
Category: Research Insight
Authors: Barbara Cosson and Michael Gilding
From “Dallas” and “The Godfather” to “House of Gucci” and “Succession,” popular culture has always relished watching how resentments, squabbles and back-stabbing can pulse through a Read More...
Category: Research Insight
Authors: Rania Labaki and Fabian Bernhard
Carl Beauregard, former President of Beauregard Equipment, has worked side by side with his father and three brothers, and has 15 younger relatives who could be involved in running the Read More...
Category: Commentary
Author: Kimberly Eddleston
Mitzi Perdue is the widow of Frank Perdue and the daughter of Ernest Henderson Sr., a founder of the Sheraton Hotels empire. She also runs a consultancy devoted to family business success and is Read More...
Category: Interviews
Author: Kimberly Eddleston