SEARCH RESULTS
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 Read More...
Category: Research Insight
Authors: Allan Discua Cruz , Eleanor Hamilton , Giovanna Campopiano and Sarah Jack
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 Read More...
Category: Commentary
Authors: Mat Hughes and R. Adam Smith
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 Read More...
Category: Interviews
Author: Kimberly Eddleston
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 Read More...
Category: Interviews
Author: Kimberly Eddleston
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 Read More...
Category: Interviews
Author: Kimberly Eddleston
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 Read More...
Category: Interviews
Author: Kimberly Eddleston
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 Read More...
Category: Research Insight
Authors: Leona Achtenhagen , Kajsa Haag , Kajsa Hultén and Jen Lundgren
Should family members work outside the family business before joining? Experts have long recommended that this is the best (and only!) way for the next generation to learn the skills and knowledge Read More...
Category: Commentary
Authors: Joseph Astrachan , Isabel C Botero , Carol Wittmeyer and Claudia Binz Astrachan
In their aim to raise the next generation of family business leaders, parents often question if their parenting style is effective. They often ask themselves: Am I being too lenient or too strict? Am Read More...
Category: Research Insight
Authors: Kimberly Eddleston , Kristen Shanine and Kristen Madison
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...
Category: Interviews
Author: Kimberly Eddleston