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A CEO who supports entrepreneurship is important to both family and nonfamily business success. However, the need to remain entrepreneurial is especially important for family businesses because their Read More...
Category: Research Insight
Authors: Kimberly Eddleston and Franz Kellermanns
Companies that went cashless in the past few years, whether to increase the speed of transactions or reduce the theft of cash, are experiencing some whiplash. Take salad chain Sweetgreen, which Read More...
Category: Features
Author: Hanna Horvath
Across the whole of America they come: the lawyers and financiers, marketers and architects, librarians (of course) and writers and teachers. In a second — or even third — career, they are Read More...
Category: Features
Author: Ellen Ryan
Whether in the science parks of Shenzhen in China or the coffee shops of Silicon Valley in the United States, vibrant communities of investors, entrepreneurs, and experts drive progress by fostering Read More...
Category: Research Insight
Authors: Xiaoteng Wu , Arzi Adbi and Pasha Mahmood
Family business owners often depend on legal advice to control ownership changes and uphold a functional balance between owners. This legal advice on ownership issues spans both family law and Read More...
Category: Research Insight
Authors: Kajsa Haag , Hanna Almlöf , Marina Madsen and Mette Neville
Rick Bulan was watching television in 1994 when he saw something he wanted: A 1,000-pound, 12.5-foot-long piece of deteriorating handrail removed from the iconic Golden Gate Bridge a year earlier. "I Read More...
Category: Features
Author: Patricia Corrigan
The mission of EIX is to provide the soundest advice to help entrepreneurs, investors, and their companies improve their success rates. One important source of advice is based on research: rigorous Read More...
Category: Research Insight
Authors: Jon Eckhardt and Catherine Buday
The emotional conflicts that beset family businesses can be difficult to weather. Heidi Vermeer-Quist, a clinical psychologist, family business consultant, and third-generation shareholder of Read More...
Category: Interviews
Author: Kimberly Eddleston
A comprehensive and convincing vision is crucial in helping family businesses be successful over generations. However, many lectures and course exercises that prepare future leaders merely ask Read More...
Category: Education and Teaching
Authors: Nadine Kammerlander and Friedrich Kammerlander
Courtney Burton has spent most of her career in the retail industry. She was a merchant for several major companies, including Target, CVS, Albertson's and Lane Bryant. For the last 11 years of her Read More...
Category: Features
Author: Chris Farrell