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Why You Should Name Your Business After Yourself

What's in a name? For many family-run businesses, the business name and family name are the same, linking the reputations of the two, for better or worse. New family business owners often grapple Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Author: Sharon Belenzon

Choosing a Board of Directors for a Family Business

It's important that current or future members of a family business understand best practices for assembling a Board of Directors (BOD). That's why we explore this in depth as part of a basic family Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Author: Whitney Peake

To Engage Business Students, Roll Out 'the Barrels'

Many of us may remember the “Choose Your Own Adventure” books from childhood. In these tales, the story develops to a point and presents a scenario choice to the reader. Depending on the choice Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Authors: Whitney Peake and Teran Sundy

Delivering the Goods: An Interview with Best Buy and EIX Founder Dick Schulze

Dick Schulze, the founder of Best Buy and EIX, shares his experiences as an entrepreneur and innovator, including how he tripled his income from his boyhood paper route; quit a retail job when his Read More...

Category: Interviews

Author: James C Wetherbe