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How to Pivot to Profit
feedback involves having a mentor or someone else the founder trusts ask probing questions about a problem — "What about this?" "What about that?" — until the founder concludes that a change is Read More...
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Should You Tweet Like Elon? When It Pays to be Provocative
Entrepreneurs often use social media platforms like Twitter or Instagram as a low-cost way to connect with their ventures' stakeholders. Superstar entrepreneurs often use it to wield their clout, Read More...
ADHD Can Affect Entrepreneurs’ Earnings and Business Success
The mental health crisis has affected public safety, schools, politics and business and provoked a worldwide discussion on how we can better help individuals who are suffering from mental illness. Read More...
How Family Firms Help Non-Family Employees Feel Like Family
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forego business opportunities to retain the family’s control over the business, stick to family traditions that are outdated, and prefer family Read More...
Creating a Succession Plan for Your Business
From left to right, Kieran Culkin, Jeremy Strong, Sarah Snook and Brian Cox in HBO's "Succession."   |   Credit: Photograph by Graeme Hunter/HBO Editor’s note: This article Read More...
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The Biggest Mistakes Family Businesses Make With Their Boards
Family business researcher, lecturer, and advisor Claudia Binz Astrachan has studied first-hand how effective boards of directors steer family business management towards strategies that make the Read More...
Celebrating International Women's Day 2023
Around the globe, more and more women are taking their careers in their own hands by launching a business. Women represent one of the fastest growing segments of the entrepreneurship population Read More...
How Family Businesses Survive Unexpected ‘Wild Cards’
One of the key concerns for family businesses is continuity. Unlike non-family firms, many family businesses display a longevity that may span over centuries. In order to survive such long periods, Read More...
Advice for Family Business Successors: Be Humble and Curious
  David Bentall found out the hard way that his leadership of his family's construction and real estate firm wasn't working: his own uncle removed him from the company. Losing his job was a Read More...
What I Wish I Knew Before Starting a Business
Over the years, Noah Alper, 75, has started and run five businesses and a nonprofit school. Four of his ventures — including Noah's Bagels and the natural food and housewares chain Bread & Read More...
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