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Doing Good While Making Profits: How Social Ventures Stay Financially Afloat

While business models for traditional startups are well understood, there’s still a knowledge gap when it comes to social enterprises—those driven by social or environmental missions. Even though Read More...

Category: Research Insight

Authors: Lien De Cuyper and Bart Clarysse

Startups: Will Your Corporate VC Ditch You Too Soon?

While CVCs may provide capital now, they sometimes end their commitment abruptly, spooking your other investors.  It pays to research their track records. For many ventures, receiving outside Read More...

Category: Research Insight

Authors: Joseph Cabral , Shyam Kumar and Haemin Dennis Park

How Do Owners of Family Business Portfolios Restructure Poorly Performing Firms?

Families can get emotionally attached to laggards in their portfolios and avoid taking tough but necessary action, putting the entire enterprise in peril. When a family business portfolio includes Read More...

Category: Research Insight

Authors: Marina Palm , Vanessa Diaz Moriana and Nadine Kammerlander

Long Parental Leave Encourages Women to Start Businesses

In Sweden, a growing number of mothers are starting a new venture when their children are young. This is surprising in a country where the welfare system with its family policies favors employees, Read More...

Category: Research Insight

Authors: Magdalena Markowska , Helene Ahl and Lucia Naldi

Academy of Management Honors FamilyBusiness.org Editor Kimberly Eddleston

Kimberly Eddleston, Founding Editor of FamilyBusiness.org and a longtime contributor to its sister publication EIX, was recently honored by the Academy of Management (AOM) with its 2024 Practice of Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: Catherine Buday

How Women Directors Decrease Cost of Capital at Family Businesses

The decision to disclose strategy information is critical, as it reveals managerial actions, providing financial stakeholders with the information required to assess the firm’s competitive Read More...

Category: Research Insight

Authors: Rafaela Gjergji , Luigi Vena , Giovanna Campopiano , Salvatore Sciascia and Alessandro Cortesi

Storytelling Vividly Illustrates Your Family Business Values

Values can form a strong foundation for a family business. Through shared values, we feel united and form a bond of culture, history, and pride. This bond can motivate each member of the family to Read More...

Category: Practice Insight

Author: Eva Fischer Hansen

Renewing the Empire: A Family Firm's Succession and Refit Journey

While the global business environment is forever changing, family firms often stand for longevity and stability -- and stable, long-term management is a key strategic element in their performance Read More...

Category: Research Insight

Authors: Melania Riefolo , Sena Özkara , Baris Istipliler and Jan-Philipp Ahrens

Researchers and Entrepreneurs Need Each Other

EDITOR’S NOTE: Will Harvey is a Professor of Leadership at Melbourne Business School and is currently the Director of the school's  Social Purpose Centre . He is also an International Research Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: William Harvey

Sensemaking: The Entrepreneur’s Competitive Edge

An entrepreneur has many challenges; new problems to solve, new solutions to develop, new organizations to build, new customers to satisfy, along with many more.  Successful entrepreneurship Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Author: Kevin Fee