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Women Show Their Strengths When Family Businesses are in Trouble
Around the world, women have always been part of family businesses. However, little is known about how they affect the continuity of family firms in certain areas of the world, especially patriarchal
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Research Insight
How Families Can Run Their Businesses With Both Head and Heart
FamilyBusiness.org Senior Editor Mat Hughes recently appeared on R. Adam Smith’s LinkedIn channel to talk about a challenge that all family businesses face: the pull between the passions and
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Commentary
Why Family Businesses Must Mind the (Generation) Gap
Family businesses are unstoppable when they benefit from the wisdom of founders and older leaders and the forward-thinking, innovative outlook of the next generation. But all too often, these
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Interviews
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Kimberly Eddleston
Founders: Let Next-Gens be Entrepreneurial
A family firm's longevity depends on fresh approaches to doing business, but all too often these fresh insights can clash with the family's entrenched way of doing things. Founders especially
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Interviews
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Kimberly Eddleston
One Family, Multiple Businesses: Preserving Harmony and Profits
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
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Interviews
Author:
Kimberly Eddleston
Wealth Can be Hazardous to Future Family Business Leaders
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
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Interviews
Author:
Kimberly Eddleston
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
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Features
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Richard Eisenberg
Thicker Than Water: Balancing Individual Career Goals and the Family Business
With family-owned businesses accounting for a whopping share of the economy, the nature of family members’ individual career development in that sector is important and interesting. How indeed do
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Research Insight
Over My Dead Body: The Unseen Influence of Wives on Succession
Around the world, women have risen to the upper echelons of family businesses. But among women who are wives of the family business leader, even those involved in the business themselves, attitudes
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Research Insight
The Family Business 'Generation Gap' Can Undermine Success
The upcoming generation of family firm leaders often don't see things the same way as their parents and grandparents do. Professor Peter Jaskiewicz has explored this disconnect deeply in his new book
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Interviews
Author:
Kimberly Eddleston
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