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This video, also available as a podcast, explores how entrepreneurs, family businesses, startups and others can tap into artificial intelligence to digitize parts of their business and legacy, Read More...
Category: Interviews
Author: Mat Hughes
The founders of many longstanding family businesses likely had parents who insisted on responsibility and let them learn from their mistakes. This is not so today -- the era of helicopter Read More...
Category: Commentary
Author: Kimberly Eddleston
The family often has a strong influence on whether or not someone becomes an entrepreneur. Because they shape values, education, and experiences, families are often referred to as the "oxygen that Read More...
Category: Research Insight
Author: Kimberly Eddleston
Family businesses, and the wealth they create, are run by human beings, who can be impulsive. When the wealth is substantial, often an impartial third party is the best choice to manage this wealth Read More...
Category: Interviews
Author: Kimberly Eddleston
We yet have to meet a business family that does not want their family members to be competent and engaged owners and stewards. Everyone agrees that having owners who understand finance and strategy, Read More...
Category: Applied and Practice
Authors: Tom Rüsen , Claudia Binz Astrachan and Ruth Orenstrat
For business or emotional reasons, sometimes one family ends up with more than one business under its umbrella. An entrepreneurial, ambitious family member may want to launch a new venture, or a Read More...
Category: Interviews
Author: Kimberly Eddleston
A family business founder or leader often toils for years to cultivate good relationships with people, organizations, and businesses outside the family, including banks, suppliers, customers, and the Read More...
Category: Research Insight
Authors: Luis Cisneros , Bérangère Deschamps and Sebastien Geindre
Tangible items like postcards, photos, old accounting books, or logos and images from brand and advertising campaigns are more than just mementos of a family business’s past. They create the family Read More...
Category: Research Insight
Authors: Luca Manelli , Vittoria Magrelli , Josip Kotlar , Federico Frattini and Antonio Messeni Petruzzelli
Preparing the next generation for leadership is an important mission for family businesses. But all too often, the comfortable lifestyle that family wealth makes possible does not do the Read More...
Category: Interviews
Author: Kimberly Eddleston
Family businesses often behave in unique ways: They forego business opportunities to retain the family’s control over the business, stick to family traditions that are outdated, and prefer family Read More...
Category: Applied and Practice
Authors: Peter Jaskiewicz , Josh Hsueh , Elizabeth Tetzlaff and Giovanna Campopiano