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Successful, long-lasting business families share an understanding of what is important to them, what they want to do together, and how they want to work together to achieve their collective goals and Read More...
Category: Applied and Practice
Authors: Tom Rüsen , Isabel C Botero , Arist von Schlippe and Torsten Groth
Many people make the mistake of thinking that family businesses are simple businesses. Nothing could be further from the truth. The coexistence of two systems with differing ways of thinking—the Read More...
Category: Commentary
Author: Salvatore Sciascia
Part 1 of 2 -- Family business succession planning clearly is among a family business’s most challenging events and plenty of experts have weighed in on how to do it right. However, most of Read More...
Category: Applied and Practice
Authors: Nadine Kammerlander and Leona Rethmann
The salaries of top executives can be a hot topic and a source of family business conflict and stress – at family businesses and non-family firms. How can family business leaders decide what’s Read More...
Category: Research Insight
Authors: Roland Kidwell , Anneleen Michiels and Isabel C Botero
The upcoming generation of family firm leaders often don't see things the same way as their parents and grandparents do. Professor Peter Jaskiewicz has explored this disconnect deeply in his new book Read More...
Category: Interviews
Author: Kimberly Eddleston
In her second interview with Familybusiness.org, Mitzi Perdue shares strategies from her book entitled How to Keep Your Family Connected. This workbook, which complements her book How to Make Read More...
Category: Interviews
Author: Kimberly Eddleston
While the holidays are supposed to bring magic and joy to people’s lives, they are also an immense source of family business conflict, anxiety, and stress. Family can be the root cause of this Read More...
Category: Commentary
Author: Kimberly Eddleston
Stories abound about sibling rivalries and family business conflict that have harmed family businesses and the families behind them. For instance, Charles and David Koch were sued by their brothers, Read More...
Category: Applied and Practice
Authors: Jonas Ruzek and Kimberly Eddleston
With Bill and Melinda Gates’ divorce making headlines across the globe, many are wondering how the split will affect their joint business dealings — especially the Gates Foundation, which they Read More...
Category: Applied and Practice
Authors: Kimberly Eddleston and Jonas Ruzek
By Shital Jayantilal, Silvia Ferreira Jorge and Tomas M. Banegil Palacios Family businesses are especially conflict-prone, since sibling rivalry and other emotional undercurrents sometimes cloud Read More...
Category: Research Insight
Authors: Shital Jayantilal , Sílvia Jorge and Tomas M. Bañegil Palacios