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With Bill and Melinda Gates’ divorce making headlines across the globe, many are wondering how the split will affect their joint business dealings — especially the Gates Foundation, which they Read More...
Category: Applied and Practice
Authors: Kimberly Eddleston and Jonas Ruzek
Part two of a two-part series. As new cases of COVID-19 emerge around the world (as of late July, 2021), the disease continues to remind us that the only certainty is uncertainty -- a theme I Read More...
Category: Applied and Practice
Author: Mat Hughes
Second of a two-part series From our studies evaluating the effectiveness of boards at family firms, we’ve seen first-hand how strong boards can help family businesses be more successful. In Read More...
Category: Applied and Practice
Authors: Claudia Binz Astrachan , Joseph Astrachan and Hermut Kormann
In these times of change and uncertainty, one thing is still certain: product-service innovation remains the lifeblood of family firms. Without innovating, pioneering competitors will make existing Read More...
Category: Research Insight
Author: Mat Hughes
Family businesses everywhere are responding to Covid-19 in profound ways, balancing the need to preserve cherished family traditions and social capital against the mandate to control costs at Read More...
Category: Commentary
Authors: Mat Hughes and Alfredo De Massis
Like old vineyards that still produce great wines, older family businesses thrive across many generations developing resilient responses in the face of competition, market shifts and family Read More...
Category: Research Insight
Authors: Alfredo De Massis , Elisa Conz and Peter Lamb
While the pandemic has created economic turmoil, family and business disruption, and challenges that could last a lifetime, it also presents a unique opportunity to learn and improve family business Read More...
Category: Commentary
Author: Kimberly Eddleston
Only about a third of family businesses make it to a second generation beyond the founder. Conventional wisdom says that these firms falter because the owners didn’t have a succession Read More...
Category: Theory and Research
Authors: James Hoffman , Ritch Sorenson and Keith Brigham
When it comes to innovation, family firms often are trapped in an “ability–willingness paradox”: the superior ability to innovate is unrealized because of fear of innovation. Our research 1 Read More...
Category: Applied and Practice
Authors: Emanuela Rondi , Alfredo De Massis and Josip Kotlar
This feature and video are part of America’s Entrepreneurs: Making it Work , a Rewire initiative made possible by the Richard M. Schulze Family Foundation and EIX, the Read More...
Category: Features
Author: Alauna Yust