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Women Can Help Family Firms Innovate – but Socioemotional Factors Matter
Women Can Help Family Firms Innovate – but Socioemotional Factors Matter
Around Europe and elsewhere, the number of women in leadership roles is going up, and they are having a measurable impact on innovation and profits. Many researchers have found that having more women Read More...
What All Family Businesses Can Learn From the Merck Family
What All Family Businesses Can Learn From the Merck Family
The Merck family business dates back to this apothecary, founded in 1668. The German Merck family has succeeded where many business families have failed: Keeping a group of 319 family members, Read More...
Should Your Next CEO be From Outside the Family?
Should Your Next CEO be From Outside the Family?
In her discussion with Matt Nielsen of Nielsen-Massey Vanillas International, Editor Kimberly Eddleston goes into a sensitive topic for many family firms: whether an outside leader is better equipped Read More...
The New Family Business Powerhouses: Wives and Moms
The New Family Business Powerhouses: Wives and Moms
Today women hold leadership positions in government, head up Fortune 500 companies, and oversee countless philanthropic programs. Yet in many successful family businesses, the roles of women remain Read More...
Non-Family Board Members Bring Perspective and Growth
Non-Family Board Members Bring Perspective and Growth
  What happens at a family firm with shared ownership and leadership? Matt Nielsen, Managing Director of Nielsen-Massey Vanillas International Europe, is candid about the disagreements and Read More...
Four Things that the Best Family Business Boards Do Well
Four Things that the Best Family Business Boards Do Well
First of a two-part series Can you quantify your board’s contribution to the performance of your family business? Even if you can’t put a number on it, you should have a keen sense of how much Read More...
Research Reveals How Business Families Have Coped With COVID-19
Research Reveals How Business Families Have Coped With COVID-19
For this research, we surveyed over 1,000 family businesses around the world, with the objective to identify the most effective measures to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic. What sets our research Read More...
The Potential Downside of Having Non-Family Board Members
The Potential Downside of Having Non-Family Board Members
By Alfredo DeMassis, Lorraine Uhlaner, Ann Jorrissen and Yan Du It's been generally accepted that family firms benefit from the perspectives of outsiders on the board of directors. Outsiders can Read More...
Family Office Continuity in the Time of COVID19
Family Office Continuity in the Time of COVID19
As the Covid-19 virus spreads rapidly through the United States, most of the U.S. universities, businesses, government agencies, and school systems began a massive push to work from home or attend Read More...
COVID-19: Understanding the Board’s Key Role During a Crisis
COVID-19: Understanding the Board’s Key Role During a Crisis
A board’s oversight and guidance, based on the expertise, experience and personal qualities of its members, has always helped drive business success and survival.  But now, as the COVID-19 Read More...

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